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