Early American History-CP
Study Guide - English Colonization
Vocabulary Terms
privateer
charter
joint-stock company
royal colony
legislature
House of Burgesses
indentured servant
headright system
persecute
diversity
synagogue
proprietary colony
royal colony
quaker
haven
trustee
balance of trade
duty
staple crop
triangular trade
Concepts
mercantilism
● a country should try to get and keep as much bullion, gold and silver as possible
● mercantilists believed a nation should have colonies where it could harvest raw materials
and sell products
mercantile theory
● the right to make goods for sale should be reserved for the parent country (England)
● colonies would not be allowed to trade with other nations or to even manufacture goods
salutary neglect
● British colonial policy during the early 1700’s
● Great Britain rarely enforced trade regulations such as the Navigation Act
● as a result, colonies prospered without much government interference
Roanoke
● Croatoan
Jamestown
● first permanent English settlement in America
● John Smith
● John Rolfe
● Starving Time
● Tobacco
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House of Burgesses
Powhatan & Pocahantas
Lord De La Warr
George Percy
Starving Time
Know the geographical differences, climate and economics of 13 colonies
New England Colonies (be sure to know all reasons for settlement)
● Plymouth
○ Mayflower Compact
○ William Bradford
○ John Carver
○ Thanksgiving & Squanto
● Massachusetts Bay
○ John Winthrop
○ Puritans
● New Hampshire
○ John Wheelwright & John Mason
● Rhode Island
○ Roger Williams
■ Beliefs
● Connecticut
○ Thomas Hooker
■ Beliefs
○ Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
● Anne Hutchinson
● Salem Witch Trials
● Pequot Wars
● King Philip’s War
The Middle Colonies (be sure to know all reasons for settlement)
● Pennsylvania
○ William Penn & George Fox
● New York
○ New Netherlands & Peter Stuyvesant
○ Duke of York
● New Jersey
○ John Berkeley & George Carteret
● Delaware
○ New Sweden
○ Pennsylvania’s Lower Counties
The Southern Colonies (be sure to know all reasons for settlement)
● Virginia
○ Bacons Rebellion
● Maryland
○ Lord Baltimore & 2nd Lord Baltimore
○ Toleration Act of 1649
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Carolinas
○ Split between North & South
● Georgia
○ James Ogelthorpe
○ Laws
Other People:
John Cabot
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Martin Frobisher
John Davis
Henry Hudson
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette