Unit 1 Flashcards
Mercantilism
Colonies existed to economically support the mother country. England would benefit from all trade in the colonies
Treaty of Tordesillas 1493
Treaty between Spain and Portugal created a Papal (from the pope) that said east of the line is for Portugal (Brazil) west of the line is for Spain( the rest of North and South America)
Spanish Armanda
Fleet assembled by King Philip II of Spain… Purpose is to invade England
Charter Colony
Colonists were essentially members of a corporation and based on an agreed-upon charter, electors among the colonists would control the government.
Royal Colony
Were owned by an individual with direct responsibility to the king. The proprietor selected a governor who served as the authority for the property.
English Puritanism
Movement to reform the Church of England- believed in predestination and authority of the scripture not the pope
Starving Time
A period in the 1600’s during which many colonists died in Jamestown. They refused to work- gentlemen not labores
Jamestown 1607
First permanent English settlement
Indenture System
Servants whose passage over was paid in return for 7-10 years of service. Most died- white servants
John Rolfe
Married Pocahontas- responsible for tobacco in the colonies
House of Burgesses 1619
First representative house in America- instituted private ownership of land; maintained rights of colonies
Proprietary Colony
Were owned by an individual with direct responsibility to the king. The proprietor selected a governor who served as the authority for the property
Headlight System
Used by the Virginia
Separatists
believed the Church of England was beyond saving and that they must separate. Many traveled on the mayflower, set up Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Anne Hutchinson
Believed and promoted that individuals can have individual relationship with God. This country to Puritan doctrine. Banished to Rhode Island.
Roger Williams
Formed Rhode Island as a colony that granted religious toleration. Had been exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Maryland Act of Toleration
1649 religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland
Quakers
Believed human religious institutions was unnecessary. Pacifists and they refused to follow social superiors
William Penn
Founded Pennsylvania for Quakers
John Locke
Political Philosopher of the Enlightenment
Natural Law
life, liberty, and property
Triangular Trade
Europeans purchased African slaves with goods that they had imported, Europeans sold salves to Caribbean for sugar, cotton, and tobacco. Goods for slaves, slaves for sugar, sugar and molasses for other goods
Navigational Acts 1650-1673
Sugar, cotton, and tobacco were to only be sold to England
First Continental Congress
September to October 1774 meeting in Philadelphia of colonial representative to denounce the intolerable acts and to petition the British parliament
