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De La Warr has orders to make war on the Indians... Raided villages, burned houses, took supplies, burned cornfields
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1614 Peace sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas and John ROLFE
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-assumes the role of the House of Commons in England
-controls over finances, militia, etc.
VIRGINIA -
-landed outside of VA Co. land so they became 'squatters' @Plymouth Bay
-Written/Signed by Pilgrims BEFORE they disembarked from the ship... NOT A CONSTITUTION, BUT AN AGREEMENT -
-Plymouth
-after signing a treaty with Chief Massasoit -
1622- Indians attack Eng. and kill 347 (including John Rolfe)
-raids reduced native population and drove them further westward -
Founded in the Hudson River area (consists of modern day New York and Pennsylvania)
Established by Dutch West India
-Manhattan (New Amsterdam) was purchased by company for pennies (a TOTAL OF 22,000 ACRES) -
-highly despised tobacco (main crop of VA)
-distrusted the House of Burgesses
-VA becomes a royal colony after revokement of the Charter UNDER KING'S DIRECT CONTROL -
-wanted to escape attacks from C of E
-did not want to leave church but rather escape from its 'impurities' -
The English Civil War sent 70,000 Pilgrims to America... not all were Puritans
-20,000 Puritans went to Massachusetts -
Royal Charter granted to George Coduert, aka Lord Baltimore
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-because of his guilty preaching of new and dangerous opinions
-argued for a full break w the Anglican Church -
Pequots: very powerful tribe in the CT River Valley
1637 WARTIME
-Whites + Narangansetts Indian Allies go up against the Pequots on Mystic River... Pequot Tribes virtually annihilated -
regulate religious behavior
*separation of church and state -
English soldiers arrived and renamed the area New York
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-removed Powhatans from their original land
-formally separated Indian and English Settlers animism -
-Supported by Catholics
-guaranteed toleration to ALL CHRISTIANS
-decreed death to those who denied the divinity of Jesus (like Jews, Athiests, etc)
-MD was less tolerant before this act was passed -
Dutch under Director General Peter Stuyvesant attack New Sweden and conquer it in their name
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-made blacks and their children property, aka chattle for life of white masters
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These men don't have the right to vote
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A group of small English Farmers from West Indies arrive in Carolinas
-brought a few black slaves and a model of the Barbados slave code w them
-named by King Charles II
-HOPED TO USE CAROLINA TO SUPPLY THEIR PLANTATIONS IN BARBADOS -
-METACOM WAS KNOWN AS KING PHILIP TO SETTLERS!!!
Massasoit's son united Indians and staged attacks on white settlements throughout New England
-war ended in FAILURE for the Indians... Metacom was beheaded and drawn and quartered -
led 1000 Virginian's in a rebellion AGAINST Governor Berkeley bc of:
-monopolizing the fur trade w the Indians
-refusal to retaliate on Indian Attacks on frontier settlements EXPOSED THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES -
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-Closely associated with Pennsylvania
-1703: granted its own assembly
-remained under the control of PA until the American Revolution -
-PA promised better relations w/ whites
-Carolinians decided to 'thin' the Savannah's before they could leave... bloody raids killed most of them by 1710 -
due to crops of INDIGO and RICE!!!
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-last of the 13 Colonies
-named in honor of King George II
-founded by James Oglethorpe
DETERMINED TO KEEP SLAVERY OUT -
DETERMINED TO KEEP SLAVERY OUT BUT BY 1750 SLAVERY WAS FOUND