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21 Cards in this Set
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Identify the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia |
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Identify the New England colonies |
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire |
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Identify the middle colonies |
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware |
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Initial purpose of the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
*Joint-Stock Co (VA Company) to gain wealth for settlers & investors (Virginia) *Buffer between Spain & British colonies (Georgia) |
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Initial purpose of the New England colonies |
*Religious communities for persecuted or idealistic groups (Pilgrims & Puritans) *Religious toleration for those that did not fit in (Rhode Island) |
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Initial purpose of the Middle colonies |
*Religious communities (Holy Experiment, Quakers) *Trade (Originally a Dutch colony) |
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Economic & Labor Systems of the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
*Cash crop plantations *Head-right system, indentured servants,African slaves *Most people were yeoman farmers |
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Economic & Labor Systems of the New England colonies |
* Fishing, rum, ship building *Farming villages with mostly small scalefarming *Little slavery or indentured servitude |
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Economic & Labor Systems of the Middle colonies |
Banking; merchant shipping *Grain production *Diverse farming, ; very fewslaves/indentured servants |
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Government in the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
Royal Governor & House of Burgesses |
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Government in the New England colonies |
*Mayflower Compact *Fundamental Orders of Connecticut *Winthrop’s “city on a hill” *Royal Governor &Town meetings |
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Government in the Middle colonies |
*Proprietary (colonies given toindividuals by the king) *Royal Governors & colonialassemblies |
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Society in the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
*Plantation-centered; forced-labor society *Large gap between the rich and the poor *Bacon’s Rebellion – former indenturedservants upset with gap between rich andpoor |
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Society in the New England colonies |
*Puritans & Pilgrims *Salem Witch Trials *Great Migration brought 16,000 Puritans *Families rather than exclusively men *Schools *Half Way Covenant |
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Society in the Middle colonies |
*Quakers & “Holy Experiment”(Pennslyvania) *Very diverse society |
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Relationships with Native Americans in the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
*Conflict with Powhatan Indians |
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Relationships with Native Americans in the New England colonies |
*King Philip's War |
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Relationships with Native Americans in the Middle colonies |
*Brought land from Native Americans |
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Important people in the Chesapeake/Southern colonies |
*John Smith, John Rolfe *Bacon & Gov. Berkeley *James Oglethorpe (Georgia) |
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Important people in the New England colonies |
*John Winthrop *Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson *King Philip |
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Important people in the Middle colonies |
*William Penn *Peter Stuyvestant *James, Duke of York |
