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2 changes that made the europeans look for new lands
Significant growth & black death,
emergence of new powerful governments
Early power in the early stages of discovery
Portugal
The land Columbus claimed under the spanish flag was named after
Amerigo vespucci
The new world was attractive because it offered this rare commodity
Land
mercantalist theory of economics
economic health relied on selling more goods than bought
puritans were discontent during the reign of James 1 because
-illegally taxed them
-Favored catholics
-Supported high church forms of ceremony
first permanent english settlement was
Jamestown
4 things that shaped Chesapeake bay area colonies
-Colonies as buissness enterprises
-developed own political systems
-few efforts to blend with natives
-Nothing worked as planned
first major crop from VA colonies
Tobacco
System that granted 50 acre grants to VA settler colonists
Headrights
George calvert envisioned Maryland to be a safe haven for embattled
catholics
Maryland Act Concerning Religion
People were granted religious tolerance
Scrooby exiles: moved to holland, emigrated to New World
Pilgrims
Pilgrims document that established their government
Mayflower compact
John Winthrop envisioned Massachusetts to be
a city on a hill
Puritans were trying to establish a ______ government
Theocracy
Founder of Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Name of war between Connecticut Valley English and Native Americans
Pequot War
2 rifles used in the early Native American Wars
Matchlock
Flintwood
Acts that established legal basis of Englands regulation of the colonies for a century
Navigation Acts
3/4 of immigrants who came to the chesapeake colonies were
Indentured servants
The average wife experienced pregnancies every
2 years
Blacks transported to the US were from the
West Indies
Most numerous non-english immigrants
Scotch-irish
a common problem in the colonial commerce was
no common currency
diverse trade routes that involved selling rum slaves and sugar was known as
triangle trade
colonial plantations were
rough and small
The characteristic social unit in New England was
Town
New England colonial town meetings were restricted to
White male adult church members
Intellectual and religious thought in colonial America revolved around emphasis on_____and new spirit of _____
Personal God
Enlightenment
Outstanding colonial preacher during the great awakening was the congregationalist
jonathan Edwards
Enlightenment celebrated the power of _____&________
Human reason
scientific inquiry
Enlightenment encouraged men and women to look not just to God but to themselves and their
Intellect
Among white males in colonial america, there was a ______level of literacy
low
The wide availability of reading material in colonial America was the result of the improved
Printing press
The colonials placed a _____ value on education
high
The first American college was
Harvard