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The Virginia Company

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  • 1607= sent 105 men to find riches, a shortcut to Asia, and to build settlements in North America, specifically at Jamestown
  • Through the leadership of John Smith, the Powhatan did not destroy Jamestown and actually assisted in its early survival.
  • 1609 – 1610: “The Starving Time”
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tobacco

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  • cash crop

- marked a shift from trade with the Indians to agriculture based on the hands of English servants and African slaves

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the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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  • Puritans
  • lead by John Winthrop
  • The group aimed at creating a “City upon a Hill” to serve as a model religious colony
  • education and literacy (read Bible)
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Roger Williams

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  • banished from…..

- believed in the separation of church and state across Connecticut River

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Ann Hutchinson

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banished

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Halfway Covenant

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  • 1662; NE
  • allowed baptized adults, who didn’t experience conversion to have their children baptized bc their parents were church members
  • expanded church membership and voting
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George Calvert

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  • established haven for Catholics in Maryland
  • freedom of worship for Christians
  • cultivated tobacco through the headright system.
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headright system

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  • 1618 Jamestown
  • every settler gets 50 acres
  • attracts colonists
  • need workers for tobacco farms
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William Penn

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  • established Pennsylvania as proprietary colony and as a safe haven for Quakers in 1682.
  • Quakers have no formal clergy, equal rights for women and are pacifists.
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Carolina

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-established by Charles II to reward his supporters and as a buffer between Spanish Florida
-north= farmers
south= rice plantation owners

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Georgia

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  • was founded by James Oglethorpe as a second-chance colony for debtors in 1733.
  • became the buffer state between the English colonies and Spanish Florida.
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Great Migration

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  • 1620; to NE

- due to civil wars in England

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King Phillip’s War

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  • (1675-1676) marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers
  • Metacom
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Bacon’s Rebellion

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  • Virginia in 1675
  • conflict between Native Americans and farmers in the Back Country led by Nathaniel Bacon
  • not supported by the Governor William Berkeley
  • led to the use of more slave labor instead of indentured servants
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France

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  • beaver furs
  • Settlements in Quebec and Montreal – “New France”
  • Constant threat from English-allied Iroquois.
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Marquette and Joliet

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-1670s; discover Chicago

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La Salle

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-travelled along the Mississippi River and named the mouth of the river Louisiana(King Louis XVI)

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Spain

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  • controlled Santa Fe
  • 1680 Pueblo Revolt due to the Spanish “iron hand”
  • San Antonio was established to deter a French threat of invading Texas and forts in California(English/Russian threat)