Colonial America 1700-1800: Overview

Colonial America 1700-1800

Dr. Douglas

Colonial America

• Was a time before America became independent of Great Britain (England)

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Jamestown was founded by

• Virginia Company of London

• Virginia

• London Company

• King London

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Puritans

• sought to purify the church but wanted to remain part of the Church of England

• sought to unite the church

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Pilgrims

• wanted to unite religions

• were separatists – they wanted to distance themselves from the Church of England and practice their own religion

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Roger Williams founded which colony?

• Massachusetts Bay

• Conneticut

• Rhode Island

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Thomas Hooker founded which colony

• Connecticut Colony

• Massachusetts Bay

• New Hampshire

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William Penn founded which colony?

• Delaware

• Pennsylvania

• Maryland

Mercantilism

• colonies were to make money for the mother country

• it is an economic system

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Mercantilism is a(n)

• economic system where the colonies make money for the mother country

• idea of how to make money

Key Terms and Concepts

• Charter

• Colony

• Cash Crops

• Economy/Economic

• Mercantilism

Quakers

•  In 1681 King Charles II of England gave a Quaker named William Penn land that became the colony of Pennsylvania. Many Quakers settled there. In the 1800s Quakers in the United States founded several colleges and universities that emphasized science.

Pilgrims and Puritan

• Pilgrims landed in Plymouth

• Pilgrims also called Separatist

• Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England

• Puritans started the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Pilgrims are also called

• Segregants

• Seperatists

Native Americans and Colonist Relations

• Some helped colonists

• Some fought against the colonists

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