Lecture Preview England and the New World The Coming of the English Settling the Chesapeake The New England Way New Englanders Divided Religion, Politics,

Lecture Preview

• England and the New World• The Coming of the English• Settling the Chesapeake• The New England Way• New Englanders Divided• Religion, Politics, and Freedom

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyThe Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

Mary Tudor, the queen who tried to restoreCatholicism in England

England and the New World

Focus Question:

What were the main contours of English colonization in the seventeenth century?


• Unifying the English Nation• England and Ireland


• England and North America• Motives for Colonization


• The Social Crisis

• Masterless Men

An engraving by Theodor de Bry depicts colonists hunting and fishing in Virginia.

The Coming of the English

Focus Question:

What challenges did the early English settlers face?


• English Emigrants

• Indentured Servants

• Land and Liberty

A pamphlet published in 1609 promotingemigration to Virginia


• Englishmen and Indians

• The Transformation of Indian Life

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyDrawing by John White

The only known contemporary portrait of a New England Indian

Settling the Chesapeake (Virginia Area)

Focus Question:

How did Virginia and Maryland develop in their early years?

Settling the Chesapeake

• The Jamestown Colony• Powhatan and Pocahontas

Map 2.1 English settlement in the Chesapeake, ca. 1650

Powhatan, the most prominent Indian leader in the original area of English settlement in Virginia


• The Uprising of 1622

The only portrait of Pocahontas


• A Tobacco Colony• Women and the Family

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanySir Walter Raleigh Ad for Tobacco

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & Company

Processing tobacco was as labor-intensive as caring for the plant in the fields.


• The Maryland Experiment• Religion in Maryland

The New England Way

Focus Question:

What made the English settlement of New England distinctive?

The New England Way

• The Rise of Puritanism• Moral Liberty

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyA portrait of John Winthrop

The New England Way

• The Pilgrims at Plymouth

• The Great Migration

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanySeal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

The New England Way

• The Puritan Family

• Government and Society in Massachusetts

• Church and State in Puritan Massachusetts

The Savage Family, a 1779 painting by the New England artist Edward Savage


An embroidered banner depicting the mainbuilding at Harvard

New Englanders Divided

Focus Question:

What were the main sources of discord in early New England?


• Roger Williams

• Rhode Island and Connecticut

• The Trials of Anne Hutchinson

Map 2.2 English Settlement in New England, ca. 1640

Roger Williams


• Puritans and Indians

• The Pequot War


The title page of a translation of the Bible into theMassachusett language

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyAn engraving from John Underhill’s News from America


• The New England Economy

• A Growing Commercial Society


Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary

Religion, Politics, and Freedom

Focus Question:

How did the English Civil War affect the colonies in America?


• The Rights of Englishmen


• The English Civil War• England’s Debate over Freedom

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyThe execution of Charles I in 1649

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Brief EditionCopyright © 2014 W. W. Norton & CompanyMeeting of the General Council of the Army at Putney


• The Civil War and English America• Cromwell and the Empire

Review

England and the New WorldFocus Question: What were the main contours of English colonization in the seventeenth century?

The Coming of the EnglishFocus Question: What challenges did the early English settlers face?

Settling the ChesapeakeFocus Question: How did Virginia and Maryland develop in their early years?

Review

The New England WayFocus Question: What made the English settlement of New England distinctive?

New Englanders DividedFocus Question: What were the main sources of discord in early New England?

Religion, Politics, and FreedomFocus Question: How did the English Civil War affect the colonies in America?

MEDIA LINKS—— Chapter 2 ——

Title Media link

Eric Foner on 17th-century society http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=17th_century_society

Eric Foner on the origin of slavery in North America

http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question018

Eric Foner on the origin of religious freedom


Eric Foner on religious freedom in Maryland in 1649


Eric Foner on religion and American life

http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=religious_life

http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=17th_century_society

http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/&f=17th_century_society









Next Lecture PREVIEW:—— Chapter 3 ——

Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750

• Global Competition and the Expansion of

England’s Empire• Origins of American Slavery• Colonies in Crisis• The Growth of Colonial America• Social Classes in the Colonies

Documents

Lecture Preview England and the New World The Coming of the English Settling the Chesapeake The New England Way New Englanders Divided Religion, Politics,