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| 1612995640 | Jamestown | 1607; joint stock company (the Virginia company); colonized by men to make a profit; John Smith. | 0 | |
| 1612995641 | Early Problems of Jamestown | The land was low and swampy, hot and humid in the summer, and pretty to outbreaks of malaria. Additionally, it was surrounded by woods difficult to clear for cultivation and in it lied local Indian territories. | 1 | |
| 1612995642 | Powhatan | An Indian chieftain who dominated the peoples in the James River area. All the tribes loosely under his control came to be called Powhatan's confederacy. The colonists innacurately called all of the Indians powhatans. | 2 | |
| 1612995643 | John Smith | A captain famous for world travel. As a young man, he took control in Jamestown. He organized the colony and saved many people from death the next winter. He also initiated attacks on Natives. He was the council president of Jamestown beginning in 1608. | 3 | |
| 1612995644 | The Starving Time | Winter of 1609-1610: Settlers in Jamestown weren't used to working so that they could eat and so they began to starve. Some resorted to canibilism. Additionally, Indians killed off the livestock in the woods. 60 out of 500 in the previous summer survived. | 4 | |
| 1612995645 | Lord De La Warr | Became the governor of the Jamestown colony in Virginia just when the settlers had given up home and were returning to their ships. | 5 | |
| 1612995646 | John Rolfe | ... He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony. | 6 | |
| 1612995647 | The Headright System | current settlers recieve 100 acres each; new settlers recieve 50 acres each; settlers paid 1 shilling a year for each headright | 7 | |
| 1612995648 | Suppression of the Powhatan Indians | Sir Thomas Dale captured Pocahontas from the Powhatan tribe and the Jamestown settlers succeeded at suppressing the Powhatan's ongoing attacks. | 8 | |
| 1612995649 | Demise of the Virginia Company | The Virginia company had put a ton of money into into the Jamestown venture however after the 1622 Indian Uprising the company faced bankruptcy. The colony then came under the control of the crown instead of the company. | 9 | |
| 1612995650 | Indian Agricultural Techniques | Jamestown's main reason of survival was due to the indian agricultural technologies. The Indians had much more experience with the soil and land so they helped the colonists plant the right crops in the right places (learned values of growing beans alongside corn). | 10 | |
| 1612995651 | Lord Baltimore | 1694 - He was the founder of Maryland, a colony which offered religious freedom, and a refuge for the persecuted Roman Catholics. | 11 | |
| 1612995652 | Cecilius | Lord Baltimore's son who beacame the owner of the new colony of Maryland. | 12 | |
| 1612995653 | Leonard Calvert | Cecilius Calvert's brother, appointed the first governor of the Maryland. | 13 | |
| 1612995654 | Toleration Act | 1689 law passed by Parliament granting some religious freedoms to dissenting Protestants who had broken away from the Anglican Church. However, this prohibited them from holding public office. | 14 | |
| 1612995655 | Berkeley's Autocratic Rule | Sir William Berkeley was a governor of Virginia in 1642. He soon became a virtual autocrat in the colony. | 15 | |
| 1612995656 | Nathaniel Bacon | A planter who led a rebellion with one thousand other Virginians in 1676; the rebels were mostly frontiersmen forced toward the backcountry in search of fertile land | 16 | |
| 1612995657 | Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness. | 17 | |
| 1612995658 | Scrooby | A congregation of Separatists from England began to leave for Holland in 1608 to seek religious freedom. | 18 | |
| 1612995659 | Plymouth | (New England Colony) It was founded in 1620 by Seperatist Pilgrims for religious freedom. | 19 | |
| 1612995660 | Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | 20 | |
| 1612995661 | Squanto | Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag. | 21 | |
| 1612995662 | William Bradford | A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks. | 22 | |
| 1613144409 | Massachusetts Bay Company | A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay. | 23 | |
| 1613144410 | John Winthrop | 1588-1649 First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. | 24 | |
| 1613144411 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders; Colonial Massachusetts | 25 | |
| 1613144412 | Roger Williams | A dissenter, Roger Williams clashed with Massachusetts Puritans over the issue of separation of church and state. After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636, he traveled south, where he founded the colony of Rhode Island, which granted full religious freedom to its inhabitants. | 26 | |
| 1613144413 | Anne Hutchinson | A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority. | 27 | |
| 1613144414 | The Pequot War | In 1637, hostilities broke out between English settlers in the Connecticut valley and the Pequot Indians of the region, resulting with many of the natives being wiped out. | 28 | |
| 1613144415 | King Philip's War | 1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion. | 29 | |
| 1613144416 | Flintlock Musket | A new weapon that replaced the earlier colonial musketry, which was too heavy, slow, and inaccurate. While the Indians utilized the new technology, the settlers were weary about ridding of their old rifles. This technology lead to more causalities than usual, during King Philips War. | 30 | |
| 1613144417 | English Civil War | (1642-1649) A war between the English Parliament and Charles I, which established Parliament's supremacy over the monarchy. | 31 | |
| 1613144418 | Stuart Restoration | Reestablishment of monarchy in the person of Charles II, the son of Charles I, after Cromwell's death. It temporarily ended England's troubles (Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania). | 32 | |
| 1613144419 | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Convinced proprietors to finance expeditions to Carolina from England. He created a colony and called the capitol city Charles Town. (Earl of Shaftesbury) | 33 | |
| 1613144420 | The Carolinas | Granted to eight nobles by Charles II as a reward for helping him gain the English throne. The North was settled mainly by poor tobacco farmers and the South became farmers of rice and indigo. They relied on African slave labor. | 34 | |
| 1658542163 | Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania | 35 | |
| 1658628116 | Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies | 36 | |
| 1658628117 | Fundamental Constitution for Carolina | These tried to bring to life to a society of nobles and peasants. It was written by John Locke and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper. | 37 | |
| 1658628118 | Capture of New Amsterdam | The Dutch and the English were in constant competition and had a large commercial rivalry with one another. In 1664 and English fleet attacked New Amsterdam and gained control. | 38 | |
| 1658628119 | Duke of York | King Charles the Second gave the colony to his brother (this name) who renamed it New York instead of New Netherland/New Amsterdam. | 39 | |
| 1658628120 | Establishment of New Jersey | James gave Sir George Carteret territory which he named New Jersey. 1702 became royal colony. Ethnic and religious diversity no important class of large landowners. Most residents were small farmers. | 40 | |
| 1658628121 | William Penn | A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution. | 41 | |
| 1658628122 | Charter of Liberties | A charter, signed by Penn, which established a representative assembly in Pennsylvania, and stated that the lower counties (Delaware) of the colony could establish their own representative assembly. | 42 | |
| 1658628123 | The English Caribbean | Concluded it was cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect those they owned. | 43 | |
| 1658628124 | Hostilities in the Southeast | No official war, but hostilities; English pirates led small attacks on Spanish; both sides tried to get Indians to help them to fight against the other. | 44 | |
| 1658628125 | James Oglethorpe's Vision | He wanted to establish a buffer state between Florida and the English colonies where all the English prisoners would go (member of Parliament and military hero). | 45 | |
| 1658628126 | Georgia's Military Rationale | Limited the size of landholdings so it was easier to defend; did not allow any Africans- free or not in fear of internal uprising; also excluded Catholics in fear they might join the Spanish | 46 | |
| 1658628127 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. | 47 | |
| 1658628128 | The Navigation Acts | Parliament passed laws to ensure that only England benefited from trade with the colonies, such as shipping certain products exclusively to England. Colonists were angry because they were forbidden to trade with other colonies, but many colonists ignored these laws or found ways to get around them. | 48 | |
| 1658628129 | Sir Edmund Andros | Authoritarian governor of Dominion of New England until rebellion and forced exile to England. Policies completely contradicted and offended the puritans. | 49 | |
| 1658628130 | The Glorious Revolution | William and Mary kicked James II out of England (exiled into France), allowed more power to the legislatures. | 50 | |
| 1658628131 | John Coode | He was the governor of Maryland, and is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He gathered an army, captured the proprietary governor, and then took grievances to authorities in England. | 51 | |
| 1658696859 | Beaver Wars | Wars that resulted from furious trading and hunting of Beaver pelts by the Dutch, the French, and the New Netherlands. The Overhunting of Beavers sent prices so high in 1742 that the Dutch armed the Iroquois and what resulted was bloody battles against Pro-French tribes. | 52 |
