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904580881Prince HenryPortugal
904580882ColumbusItaly 1492
904580883Amerigo Vespucci"nuevo mundo" 1499 - 1501 voyage
904580884Pedro Cabralfinds S. America claims Brazil
904580885Samuel de Champlainfather of Canada
904580886Henry Hudson(Netherlands) Hudson River
904580887King Henry VIIIleft Roman Catholic Church launched English Protestant church
904580888Queen Elizabeth IProtestant rivalry with Spain intensified when became queen disliked by Catholic Irish and Spain
904580889Sir Walter Raleightobacco ****** CLARIFY
904580890Francis Duke1580 circumnavigated world returned with profit
904580891Spanish Armada"invisible armada" defeated by England --> Spain declined end of spanish dominance --> ensured England's naval dominance in N. Atlantic
904580892enclosure movementpoor people land --> "enclosed" as private property of wealthy
904580893primogenitureeldest son inherits estate
904580894contributing facts to colonizationunemployed farmers - no land overpopulation of England primogeniture - younger sons got no land joint stock company - financial means
904580895Virginia Company of Londongot charter from King James I for settlement charter guaranteed same rights as if in England
904580896Jamestown1607 -problems: malaria, lac of supplies, can't drink swamp water, wasted time looking for gold instead of building, planting, fishing -saved by Captain John Smith's leadership - no work, no eat rule
904580897Captain John Smithsaved Jamestown implemented rule: no work, no eat
904580898"starving time"Jamestown winter of 1609-10 settlers raided nearby Indians for food and supplies
904580899Lord De la WarrJamestown --> military regime settlers forced to stay declared war on Indians 1614 peace settlement - ended First Anglo-Powhatan War
904580900Second Anglo-Powhatan WarEnglish victory, banished Indians
904580901John Rolfefather of tobacco industry
904580902House of Burgesses1st representative assembly in America 1619
9045809031624charter was revoked Virginia --> royal colony under James I's control
904580904Maryland-established by Lord Batlimore -refuge for fellow Catholics -Huge estates (catholic owners) surrounded by small farmers (protestant-resentful) -main crop: tobacco -white indentured servants
904580905Act of Toleration1649 Maryland protect religious rights of all Christians/Catholic minority - not Jews or atheists
904580906West Indiestobacco = poor man's crop sugar = rich man's crop, main agriculture
904580907Barbados Slave Code1661 West Indies control/limit their rights
904580908Carolinasmajor exports: slave Indians, RICE, indigo annihilated Savannah Indians trouble with Florida
904580909North Carolina1712 - separated from SC -Migrants from VA- poorer, own small farms, not religious -resisted authority, independent-minded -democratic, least aristocratic -crushed Tuscarora Indians
904580910South Carolinadefeated and dispersed Yamasee Indians
904580911Georgia1733 buffer colony- protect from Florida (Spain) and Louisiana (France) haven for debtors/prisoners no plantation economy restrictions on black slavery
904580912James OglethorpeGeorgia prison reform repelled Spanish attacks
904580913Plantation ColoniesMD, VA, NC, SC,GA tobacco and rice slave labor few, large landholders strong aristocrat - not NC or GA sparse population dominant faith: church of England some religious tolerance
904580914Northern coloniesreligious devotion
904580915Southern coloniesworldly wealth - tobacco
904580916Calvinism-Martin Luther's ideas --> John Calvin (wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion) --> Calvinism (dominant theology) -predestined -more extreme than King Henry VIII (TOTAL purification)
904580917SeparatistsSelective Calvinists and Puritans broke away (Separated) from Church of England fleed to Holland (1608) --> "Dutchification"-->America (VA)--> Mayflower 1620--> Plymouth Bay
904580918Fall 1621First Thanksgiving Day stable socially and economically
904580919William Bradfordgovernor (30 times) - Plymouth feared non-Puritan settlers' corruption
9045809201629Charles I dismissed Parliament, persecuted Puritans
904580921Archbishop William Laudhighly orthodox, persecuted Puritans
904580922John WinthropMassachusetts first governor (for 19 yrs) feared democracy
904580923Massachusettsprospered-trade, fish, lumber (shipbuilding) covenant w/ God- agreement to build holy society
904580924Congregational Church"freemen" - adult male Puritans - anually elected gov and assistants women and unchurched men = voteless all colonists paid taxes for church right to hire/fire minister and set his salary clergymen - no formal political office
904580925doctrine of covenantpurpose of government enforce God's laws
904580926"sumptuary laws"aka "blue laws" repressive no drinking, no kissing in public, etc
904580927Anne Hutchinsonclaimed that holy life does not equal salvation and that the truly saved don't need to bother with obeying the laws of God or man - antinomianism (against law) 1638 - banished moved to NY then RI
904580928Roger Williamsminister with radical ideas 1635 - banished for "dangerous opinions" moved to RI built Baptist Church established COMPLETE freedom of religion no oaths, worship attendance, taxes for state church
904580929Rhode Island"sewer" for the "lord's debris" where the unwanted resided
904580930Fundamental Orders1639 constitutional document democratic principles
904580931Pequot WarEnglish VS Pequot tribe 1637 annihilated tribe
904580932King Philip's WarWampanoag chieftain: Massaoit his son: Metacom ("King Philip" to english) - alliance with other tribes - assault on English villages 1675-76 Indians were defeated
904580933New England Confederation1643 MA (Bay Colony + Plymouth) and Connecticut (New Haven + scattered valley settlements) exclusively Puritan purpose: defend against foes (Indians French, Dutch)
904580934Effect of Colonial defiance (during Charles II)King Charles II gave charter to Connecticut - legalized squatter settlements revoked MA's charter

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