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==== Types of Colonies ==== | ==== Types of Colonies ==== | ||
[[File:A_history_of_the_American_nation_(1919)_(14595774548).jpg|thumb|264x264px|Types of colonies (from A history of the American nation 1919; Wikicommons)]] | |||
* Corporate Charter | * Corporate Charter | ||
* Proprietary Colony | * Proprietary Colony | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|land grants in exchange for bringing labor to the colonies, usually in the form of indentured servitude; was started in 1618 and most employed in Virginia}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|land grants in exchange for bringing labor to the colonies, usually in the form of indentured servitude; was started in 1618 and most employed in Virginia}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Anne Hutchinson|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Anne Hutchinson|English Puritan who brought "Antinomianism" ("against the law") to Massachusetts in 1630s, a form of anabaptism that believed that salvation was not through "works" as well as "personal revelation"; Puritans believed that one's behavior marked one's state of grace (salvation) and bad outcomes, such as the stillborn birth of a follower, Mary Dyer, marked judgment by God; they jailed Hutchinson over her teachings; she left w/ /supporters for Rhode Island where Roger Williams welcomed them}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jamestown|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jamestown|}}</ul></li> | ||
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[[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | [[File:Penncolony.png|thumb|Map of the Province of Pennsylvania|alt=Map of the Province of Pennsylvania]] | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Roger Williams|Founder of Rhode Island; established religious tolerance}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Roger Williams|Founder of Rhode Island; established religious tolerance}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:yeoman|independent farmers and landowners, who lived and farmed independently but without amassing great wealth; the "yeoman society" contrasted with the legacies of Old World feudal structures in which great landowners had tenant farmers; the yeoman ideal was independence, land ownership and local self-government, especially in New England; in Virginia the yeoman farmers contrasted with and political opposed plantation owners}}</ul> | ||
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