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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How was Jamestown? | Jamestown was basically a profit-seeking colony |
| How did Tobacco get popularized? | The profit of tobacco was founded by John Ralphian when he was experimenting with Tobacco cultivation and was found that tobacco was marketable |
| Who was doing the work on the tobacco plantations in Jamestown? | indentured servants |
| Increase of tobacco caused... | more tension between the natives and the British colonizers since the British would take away land from the natives to grow more tobacco |
| Bacon's rebellion | An armed rebellion held by Nathaniel Bacon and many other farmers |
| What caused Bacon's rebellion and what happened during it? | Farmers were angry because there wasn't enough land for them to farm and the land that was left was taken my Natives. They sought out to take over native land and drive Natives out. |
| What caused Bacon's rebellion and what happened during it? pt2 | Nathaniel Bacon demanded that Governor William Berkeley grant him authority to raise a militia and attack nearby native tribes. When Berkeley refused, Bacon and his men burned down plantations in Jamestown. Nathaniel died of dysentery, the rebellion died |
| Affects of the Bacon rebellion... | Wealthy planters elites got a healthy does of fear with unhappy indentured servants and that made them want to stop leaning on them and lean more heavily of African slaves |
| Chesapeake colonies | Jamestown; profit seeking colony |
| New England colonies | Was settled by pilgrims who migrated in family units in order to form a society. Their goals were very religious and they created family economies as farmers. They strived as their economic colonial economy was based off agriculture and commerce |
| West Indies colonies | Had a warm climate which afforded them year-round growing seasons. They would grow tobacco and sugarcane. Sugarcane is a very labor-intensive crop so a long with the increase of demand for sugarcane came the increase of demand for African slaves. |
| West Indies colonies pt 2 | The increase of demand for slaves increased so much that by 1630s the population on these islands was more black than white. |
| Results of west Indies slavery? | A tight set of laws that were passed in order to govern the black population. These laws defined enslaved people as property and govern every little detail of their lives. |
| West Indies influence | The Carolinas were influenced by the West Indies system of controlling African slaves as they set up their own economy and labor system. Migrants from the caribbeans sought to take the Caribbean system to the Carolinas and that's what happened. |
| Middle Colonies (NY & NJ) | In New York and New Jersey there was a diverse population. It was on the sea and had many rivers so that these colonies thrived on export economy mainly cereal crops. Because of the success there was this growing inequality between the classes; |
| Middle Colonies pt 2 (NY & NJ) | There was an emerging elite class that was mostly wealthy urban merchants and there was a lower working class that was made up of laborers,widows,etc. There was a significant population of enslaved Africans |
| Middle colonies (Penn) | In this colony religious freedom for all was recognized and the land of which colonists farm was obtained not by force from the natives but mainly by negotiation. |
| Governor of colonies | Self-governing structures. EX: The mayflower compact. We're dominated by the elite classes, NY assemblies were dominated by wealthy landlords, southern assemblies-elite planters |
| Mayflower compact | Pilgrims signed this before they disembarked the Mayflower which organized their government on a self-governing church congregation |
| House of Burgesses | Was a representative assembly which could levy taxes and pass laws |
| Triangular trade | A trading system between Europe, the Americas and Africa New England would send rum to west Africa and trade it for enslaved people, then Africa would send slaves to the west indies and trade it for sugarcane and the sugarcane was sent back to Europe |
| Navigation acts | These set of laws required merchants to to engage in trade with English colonies and english-owned ships. Certain valuable trade items were required to pass exclusively through British ports where they could then be taxed |
| How did the new Atlantic trade change the colonies | It generated massive wealth for the elites and ti also turned Americas seaports into thriving urban centers |
| Slavery in British colonies | Between 1700 and 1808 about 3 million enslaved Africans were carried on British ships across the middle passage. Majority of they went to British planters in the west indies |
| Slavery in New England colonies | Had few slaves |
| Slavery in Chesapeake and Southern colonies | had many slaves |
| Slave codes and Chattel | Restrictive laws for slaves and Chattel means property |
| Slavery | Was turned into an ever-lasting institution that was handed down from one generation to the other. Did this to keep it as a more controlled labor force |
| Rebellions of slaves | Covert- secretly mainted cultural customs and belief systems from their home land; others broke tools, ruined seeds, pretended to be sick overt-the stono rebellion |
| The Stono rebellion | In South Carolina in 1739, a small group of African slaves stole weapons from a store and killed their white owners. Then they marched alone the Stono river and accrued more slaves. They burnt plantations and killed other white people.The sc militia kill |
| Metacom's war/ King Philip's war | a armed conflict between the Wampanoag and other indian tribes with New England colonies the tribes attacked white settlements throughout new England , burned fields,killed men, kidnapped women and children. |
| Metacom's war/ King Philip's war | The British allied with the Mohawk indians in which eventually they ambushed and killed Metacom. |
| Enlightenment | Was a movement in Europe, especially among the alite, that emphasized rational thinking over tradition and religious revelation |
| Natural rights | Made by John Locke, the idea was that people had inborn rights given to them by a creator and not the government. "life, liberty, and property." |
| Enlightenment idea of the government | That the best from of government involved checking and balancing power and that the best way to achieve that was to split the government into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial |
| Social Contract | Made by John Locke:Argued that people were in a contract with their government. Since the power of govern is in the peoples hand, their job is to deliver it to the government in exchange the governments job to protect the natural rights of the people. |
| Social contact pt2 | If the government broke that contract then the people has the right to overthrow that government |
| Enlightenment attack on religion | New Light clergy, a group of white Christian ministers, grieved the loss of faith caused by the en.They began to preach against the En, they emphasized the democratic principles in the bible, etc |
| The Great Awakening | was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century. Leaders: Jonathan Edwards George Whitfield |
| Jonathan Edwards | Was a new England minister who preached in Northampton with the precision of a philosopher, was only local |
| George Whitfield | Preached all over the colonies, in churches, open fields and city squares |
| Result of the Great Awakening? | Was a large-scale return to the Christian faith and an experience that bound the colonists together |
| Anglicanization | Americas was becoming more English like |
| Anglicanization examples | They were developing autonomous political communities that looked very much like the political communities back in England |
| Impressment | In which England would seize colonial men and then force them to serve in the royal navy; made the Americas angry |
| Effects by Impressment | several protests against Britain and the Americas started to acknowledge their natural rights |
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