Unit 1 - (Factors Shaping Colonial Settlement) Flashcards

(Identify reasons each of the colonies were created and the ethnic groups that inhabited that area.)

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  • Leader of the VA Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
A
  • John Smith
  • Tobacco, Headright System, indentured servants, and slavery.
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  • Leader of the PA Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
A
  • William Penn
  • Free land, a haven for Quakers, equality brings diversity.
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  • Leader of NY/NJ Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
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  • Various leaders
  • Free land, religious groups migrated (Jews, Huguenots, and Presbyterians)
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  • Leader of MA Bay Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
A
  • John Winthrop
  • Puritan society seeking to reform church (“create city upon a hill”), intolerance for other religions and beliefs–Salem Witch Trials
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  • Leader of RI/CN Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
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  • Roger Williams (R) and Thomas Hooker (Conn).
  • Dissenters from Puritan colony, individualism, self government, friendly relations with Native Americans, escape Puritan lifestyle.
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  • Leader of MD Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
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  • George Calvert
  • Tobacco, haven for Catholics
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  • Leader of GA Colony
  • Reason for founding and long term stability
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  • James Oglethorpe
  • Colony for debtors, poorer peoples, buffer against Spanish Florida, rice and indigo (cash crops)
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