APUSH study guide period 2: 1607-1754 – Flashcards

The first English colonists wanted gold and silver but instead found sickness and disease. Beginning of America

European colonies in the Caribbean and Central and South America used slave labor, Indian and African, to grow labor-intensive crops such as sugar in the 1500s

Pilgrims, or Separatists, seeking religious freedom arrived in New England aboard the Mayflower. Signed Mayflower Compact which is the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony

The Dutch colonization of New Netherland began in the 1620s. From the outset, New Netherland was a multiethnic, multi-religious society.

Between 1629 and 1640, 20,000 Puritans left England for America to escape religious persecution. They hoped to establish a church free from worldly corruption and founded on voluntary agreement among congregants. John Winthrop- "A Model of Christian Charity"- first governor

Metacomet, the Wampanoag leader called "Philip" by the English, led a war against New England settlers who wanted to to subject the native New England population to colonial control

Revolt by the Pueblo peoples against the Spanish. They drove Spanish back to El Paso but were back 12 years later. Most successful effort by Indians to drive out European settlers

In 1692 a cluster of accusations of witchcraft led to prosecution in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 18 men and women were found guilty and hanged.

Maritime trade and exploration in the colonial era created an environment ripe for piracy and secret deals on all sides. Captain William Kidd was commissioned as a privateer to hunt and capture pirates

Second of four great wars for empire fought between France and England, each supported by Indian allies. Treaty of Utrecht ended the conflict

New Orleans founded in 1718. "la Louisiane" is first detailed map of Gulf Coast region and MS River

In 1725 Stephen Bayard reported that of "30 [negroes] dyed in the passage" on a seventeen-week voyage to New York due to a shortage of food. Four-fifths of the people brought to the New World between 1492 and 1820 were from Africa and enslaved.

The spread of slavery in pre-Revolutionary America made the idea slave uprisings of intense interest throughout the British colonies in North America. The West Indies, or Caribbean islands, where slavery predominated, were vitally important to commerce and trade in the colonies, and slave revolts there were particularly newsworthy.

The author (possibly the essayist Joseph Addison) argues that women should be educated because they have more spare time than men, a natural gift for speech, a responsibility for educating their children, and a need to keep busy. In addition, the article suggests that educated women were seen as "marriage material" by socially prominent men.

Colonial Americans engaged in many forms of unfree labor, with great numbers of youths moving away from their families to become servants or apprentices. The terms of their service were spelled out in contracts called indentures, legal agreements that were entered into by the child's parent(s) and the child's new master

The religious revival now known as the Great Awakening was ignited by Jonathan Edwards, whose sermons like "Sinners in the hands of an angry God," emphasized human depravity, divine omnipotence, and a personal relationship with God.

In 1751 King George II issued a proclamation repealing an act that declared slaves real estate. The proclamation, however, did not prohibit classifying slaves as property.