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believed to provide shortcut from Atlantic to Pacific, searched for by Giovanni de Verrazano for Francis I in the race to Asian wealth |
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Enclosures/ Surplus Population |
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Desire of land-owing lords to rasie sheep instead of crops, lowering the needed workforce and unemploying thousands of poor farmers |
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| Joint Stock/Londan Company |
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| Joint stock compant that recieved a charter from King James I to create settlement in America. Provided Funding For Development Of Jamestown Colony. |
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| Headrights/Indentured Servants |
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| Settelers pay expenses of a servant's voyage and be granted land for each person they brought over. |
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| Starving Time/Captian Smith |
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Captain John Smith took control of Jamestown in 1608 he ruled the colonists with the rule "He who shall not work, shall not eat.
Straving Time is during the winter of 1609-1610, the original 400 settlers only 60 survived the winter, they had to eat dogs, cats, roots, and berries |
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| Established May 24,1607 populated by 100 English settlers. Located on the wooded malarial banks of James river, easy to defended but devastatingly unhealthful |
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Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Sparatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England, led the Mayflower, and established the settlement at Plymouth |
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| Foundation for self-government laid out by the first massachusetts settlers before arriving. |
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| Calvinism/Mass. Bay Company |
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One of the first settlements in New England; established in 1630 and became a major Puritan colony. Became the state of Massachusetts, originally where Boston is located. It was a major trading center, and absorbed the Plymouth community.
Set of beliefs that the Puritans followed. In the 1500's John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, preached virtues of simple worship, strict morals, pre-destination and hard work. This resulted in Calvinist followers wanting to practice religion, and it brought about wars between Huguenots (French Calvinists) and Catholics, that tore the French kingdom apart. |
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John Winthrop immigrated from the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment. He once said, "we shall be a city on a hill."
the migration of English people from England to the New World between the years of 1630 and 1640 because King James opposed the growing Puritan population of England. |
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