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This review covers key events from the Colonial Era including the Catholic Irish Uprising against Queen Elizabeth, the establishment of the Virginia Company, and the trials faced by the Jamestown settlement. It delves into the conflicts with Native Americans, the emergence of early government forms like the House of Burgesses, and the religious dynamics of the time, highlighting figures like John Smith and Roger Williams. The review highlights socio-political developments, including the introduction of slavery codes and the founding of colonies like Maryland and Georgia, alongside the struggles between different religious sects.
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The Colonial Era Unit Review Chapters 2-7
Catholic Irish Uprising • Ireland wanted to get rid off the Queen • Assisted by Spaniards • English defeated them and committed many atrocities to the Irish people • England planted protestant landlords in Ireland
Primogeniture • Only eldest sons could inherit estates • Forced younger sons to go to the new world
Joint-Stock Company • Provided financial means for colonization • Ex: Virginia Company-received charter from King James I, first settlement in the new world • Savior of the Virginia company
Jamestown • 1st colony in the New World • Plagued settlement w/ disease, malnutrition, starvation • Saved by John Smith • Located on Chesapeake Bay- poor decision • The Starving Time- winter, only 60/400 survived
Anglo-PowhatanWars • First war between English and Powhatan tribes • Sparked by Lord De La Warr’s “Irish tactics” • peace treaty= marriage of John Rolfe to Pocahontas
House of Burgesses • First form of government • Established in Virginia • Worried King Charles • Had to much power and was forced to be abandoned
Lord Baltimore • Rich catholic lord from England • Established Maryland • Promised to persecuted English Catholics
Act of Toleration (1649) • Passed by local representative assembly • Death penalty for atheists and Jews • Less toleration actually • Protected Catholics
Sugar • Wealthy man’s crop • Growing takes lots of time and effort • Grown in the Indies • Capital intensive business • Dominated trade to much
African Diaspora and Barbados Slave Code • Vast scattering of African peoples throughout the world • “codes” denied slaves fundamental rights, gave masters complete control
Restoration Period • Empire building resumed but even greater than before • Under Oliver Cromwell rule • Lord Proprietors created to gain control over an expanse of wilderness to the Pacific
The Carolinas • Main crop rice • Strong economic ties to the Indies • Where Virginian outcasts went • Big plantations, lots of slaves, people resisted authority, produced lots of capitol • North separated from South in 1712 as a result of friction between governors- both royal colonies
Georgia • Founded with the purpose to be a buffer between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas • Often served as a battle arena • James Oglethorpe- ablest founder, interested in prison reform, military leader, imperialist/philanthropist, gained a great personal fortune
Church of England • Tax supported church • Dominant faith in North Carolina though weakest of all in that state
Handsome Lake • Iroquois prophet • Visions of the future • Made Indians stop drinking
“soil butchery” • Excessive tobacco growing • Drove settlers westward • Began confrontation with Native Americans
Calvinism • Whether you go to heaven or hell is already predetermined “predestination” • Nobody could be certain of their status • Worked hard to show they were part of the “elect”
Separatists • Came from Holland • Wanted to practice their religion freely • Negotiated with Virginia company • Came to America on the Mayflower
Mayflower Compact • Simple agreement NOT a constitution • Agreed upon a crude form of government • Written by Separatists • Signed by 41 males • Began to form their own law in open-discussions at town meetings
Mass. Bay Colony and John Winthrop • Plymouth's neighbor, who absorbed it • Group of Non-separatists • Had secured a royal charter • Lead by Winthrop- first governor of the colony, believed he had a “calling” from God, helped colony become biggest in New England, and came up with “city upon a hill”
Congregational Church • Franchise extended to all “freeman” • Adult males belonged to Puritan congregations • Men not in church could not vote • 2/5 majority voted
Protestant Ethic • Commitment to work and worldly pursuits • Ate a lot, drank, song, and made love • Tried passing laws that would keep those pleasures
Anne Hutchinson • Challenged Puritan orthodoxy • Began Antinomianism • A holy life was no sign of salvation • Brought to trial- and exiled • Killed by Indians in New York
Roger Williams • Threat to Puritan leaders • Popular Salem minister • Extreme Separatist- encouraged people to leave the Church of England • Challenged Bay colony’s charter • Angry that settlers took Indian’s land • Started the first Baptist church in Rhode Island- no taxes or mandatory attendence
Fundamental Orders • New Connecticut River Colony’s • Trailblazing document • Similar to constitution • Colony was in the hands of “substantial citizens” • Documents later borrowed by the state’s constitution
King Phillip’s War • Massoit’s son forged alliance with other tribes to destroy New England villages • Refugees fled to Boston • Puritans were attacked 12 villages were destroyed • Hundreds of colonists died and even more Indians
New England Confederation • Primary purpose- against potential foes: Indians, French, and Dutch • Exclusive Puritan club • Plymouth, Mass. Bay, New Haven, Connecticut Valley. • Hated Maine and Rhode Island
Dominion of New England • Created by royal authority • Included New York, East and West Jersey • Designed to promote English Navigation Laws • Reflected intense colonial rivalries
Navigation Laws • Americas couldn’t trade with other colonies that were not under the control of England
Glorious Revolution • King James II, Catholic was dethroned • Enthroned Protestant rulers William III and English wife, Mary, James’ daughter
Dutch West India Company • Virtually a state within a state • Supported by a large army • Dutch Republic became leading colonial power • Greatest activity in the East Indies
Pequot War • Between English and Pequot Indian tribe • Lowed western settlement • Hurt the Indian population
New Sweden • Trespassed on Dutch preserves • Colony on the Delaware River • Dutch fought them with small military • Bloodless siege ending in Swedes rule
Peter Stuyvesant • Director Dutch military • Led small Swede expedition • Swedish rule came to end after siege • Colonists absorbed New Netherland
Quakers • Came from England • Refused to pay for the Church of England • Deeply convicted • Moved to Pennsylvania • William Penn formed “Penn’s Woodland”- modest, first advertising man, liberal policy
Middle Colonies • New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania • Fertile land • Rivers • Trade • Ethically diverse • Religious toleration and democratic control
Headright System • Virginia + Maryland employment • Encourage imports of servant workers • Passage to the new world would be paid by labor and the gaining of 50 acres of land • Masters-not servants reaped land ownership
Bacon’s Rebellion • Leader Nathaniel Bacon- Virginian farmer • Resented Gov Berkley’s relations with Indians • Rebellion was suppressed • Lordly planters looked for less troublesome laborers
Royal African Co. • Lost monopoly on carrying slaves to colonies • Rhode Island cashed in on lucrative slave trade • Supply of slaves rose quickly • “middle passage”- transatlantic sea voyage, death rights high, horrid conditions
slave codes • Established differences between slave and owner in Virginia • Blacks and their kids became property • South Carolina blacks in Stono River revolted and tried to march to Spanish Florida but stopped by militia • Slaves in the South were more obidient
FFV/ merchant planters • “first families of Virginia” • Before Rev War 70% of the leaders of the Virginia legislature • Not like English but they were hard workers, labored over the plantation
“Black Christianity” • Prior to the slave codes • If blacks converted to Christianity they could be free • After slave codes this was ended
jeremiad • Mid seventeenth century Puritan pupils new form of sermon • doom-saving Old Testament profit Jeremiah • Decline in conversions
Half-Way Covenant • Troubled ministers • New arrangement that allowed members of church to be baptized but not “full communion” • Partial membership rights allowed • Once Puritan only club • Puritan churches became open to all