Founded by
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The Virginia Company of London
Jamestown
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1607
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in Chesapeak Bay
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John Smith kept colony from collapsing
Tobacco
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first cultivated by John Rolfe
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first profitible cash crop
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ruined land where it was grown
Things to Know
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many indentured servants came over
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African Americans first came in 1619 but were first treated as indentured servants
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bcamy a royal colony
Seperatists
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led by William Bradford
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believed Church of England was beyond saving and must seperate from it
Mayflower Compact
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established orderly gov based on consent of the governed
Puritans
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came to America to escape prosecution
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non-Seperatists
John Winthrop
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Governer/Leader
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"town on a hill", be an example of what a Christian Society ought to be
Religious Toleration
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founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
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place for exiles
Propriety Colony
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1632
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grant charters to single individuals or groups of individulas who would actually own the colony and be directly responsible for it with the king
Lord Baltimore
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Owned the colony
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died before colony started os son took over
Religious Toleration
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More Protestants than Catholics
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To protect the Catholic minortiy
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also allwoed a representative assembly
Propriety Colony
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hierarachial society
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offered generous land grants to settlers
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grew slowly
North Carolina
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developed as an overflow from Virginia
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similar economic and cultural features
South Carolina
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settles by English planters
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founded Charlestown in 1670
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brought slaves with them so started with slavery