Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Period 2: Colonizing the
Eastern Seaboard
- Jamestown & the British
- God, Glory, Gold
- Prevent spread of Catholicism
- Las Casas
- overcrowding bc of Enclosure Mvmt.
- Power and Riches
- Defeat of Spanish Armada:
England able to take over the seas
- VA Joint Stock Company
- Harsh Living
Conditions
- Bad water, malaria
- Indian Conflicts
- Inhabitants rough
people
- SOCIETY
- John Rolfe introduces Tobacco
- male dominated
- indentured servants
- The Middle
Colonies
- Rhode Island
- Roger Williams
- Was banished from
Mass. bc he denounced
ultraconservative rules
- New York
- Dutch/ Dutch West India Co.
- 1664: English rename it New York
- trade & shipping
based economy
- Maryland
- Proprietary colony (est. by a
person, not a company)
- Lord Baltimore (1631)
- Refuge for Catholics
- Democratic institutions
- bicameral
legislature,
governor
- act of toleration
- Pennsylvania
- Quakers
- Proprietary colony,
by William Penn
- good relations with
natives (bought land
from them, didn't just
take)
- religious ðnic diversity
- religion= minor role
in politics
- religious freedom,
civil liberties
- Massachussetts
- Mass. Bay Joint Stock Co.
- Mayflower Compact
- 1st notion of self-gov
- est. written order
- Puritans in search of
religious freedom
- larger families, older
- equal gender #s= pop.
growth
- predestination
- John Winthrop
- "city on a
hill"
- AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
- governor of mass.
- SOCIETY
- school &church= community centers
- strict societal
conduct laws
- subsistence agriculture
- Africans in the Americas
- Slavery
- 1st slaves in Jamestown
(1619 )
- replaced indentured servants
- had to pay them
- could be freed after
a certain # of years
- BACONS REBELLION (1676): arned
rebellion against VA governor,
William Berkeley, over protections
on the border from Indians.
Resulted in preference toward
slaves over indentured servantts
- covert vs. overt defiance
- fictive kinship, slave churches vs.
Stono rebellion (1739), breaking
equipment