COLONIAL DEVELOPMENTWhy did people immigrate the American colonies?

How did the colonies develop to differently as a result?How did geography affect development?

WHAT WERE THE PUSH AND PULL FACTORS FOR IMMIGRATION?

• Protestant Reformation

• Headright System• 50 acres for

each paid passage

• Indentured servants, contracted work for set # of years

TYPES OF COLONIES AND GOVERNMENTS

All colonies began with a charter from an English MonarchCorporate colonies- business to make money (Jamestown) (joint stock company)

Royal Colonies- under direct authority and rule of King’s gov’t (Virginia after 1624)

Proprietary Colonies- under authority of individuals who have power to own land and run gov’t , granted by King ( Maryland and Pennsylvania)

TYPES OF COLONIES AND GOVERNMENTS

Early forms of governmentMayflower Compact- direct democracyMaryland Act of Toleration- religious freedomVirginia’s House of Burgesses- bicameral legislature

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut- first constitution, representative gov’t by popular vote, governor chosen by legislature

TYPES OF COLONIES AND GOVERNMENTS

Early forms of unityNew England Confederation- 1643Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven military alliance to protect from Natives and deal with boundary disputesSuccess in King Phillip’s War

OTHER RANDOM COLONIES

Pennsylavania Quakers offered tolerance to all, full equality among men and women,

pacifists William Penn “the Holy Experiment” Advertised in England

Georgia Defensive buffer from Spanish Florida Reduce crowded jails in London, by allowing “debtors” to start a new

life in America Rhode Island

Roger Willliams, Puritan minister kicked out of Mass. Bay Full religious freedom Purchase land from Natives

SLAVERY AND THE TRIANGLE TRADE

• 1619 the first ship of Africans arrived at Jamestown

• No distinction of indentured servants (black or white)

• John Punch 1640• Slave codes 1662

• Slaves were chattle (property

• Born into slavery• By 1680 black slaves

outnumbered white indentured servants

• Emerged into racial slavery

MERCANTILISM- GOOD OR BAD?

Colonies exist to make money for the “mother country” Colonies provide natural

resources/raw materials that enrich the parent country

Acts of Trade and Navigation (1650-1673) Trade only on English or Colonial

built ships, operated by the same All goods imported into the

colonies could pass only through ports in England

Specific goods could only be exported to England from colonies (Tobacco)

Positive New England Ship building prospered Chesapeake tobacco had a monopoly

in England English military protected colonies

from attacks from French and Spanish Salutary Neglect (beneficial for

England to lightly enforce)

Negative Colonial manufacturing was limited Chesapeake farmers received low

prices for goods Colonists paid high prices for

Manufactured goods from England

Triangle Trade Routes

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