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Unit 2
1607-1754
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
Joint-stock company
Parliamentary control of money
Personal financing risky - Raleigh lost more than $100,000
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
London Company formed - divided into Plymouth and Virginia Companies
12 pounds investment - $62 in gold per share
December 1606 - Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery leave England
May 14, 1607 - 120 land - 104 settle - Indian attack on 5-26-1607
only 38 left alive after the first six months - death rates of 1/2 to 1/3 were not
uncommon in colonizing - settled in a low swampy area
II.
Early Map
Map Jamestown
Map Jamestown
Picture Jamestown
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
John Smith provide the early leadership and discipline necessary to make the colony
successful
basic problem was the expectation of easy gold
no work no eat policy
skillful Indian relations
periodically resupplied but continued to have problems
no private property
harsh military discipline - employees of the company marched to and from the
fields twice a day to the beat of a drum
lack of a cash crop
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
“starving time” 1609-1610
Smith had left the colony
reduced to eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, horsehide, and the
corpses of dead men
1610 - relief expedition under Gates finds the men so pitiful they load up to go
back to England
Baron De La Warre (Robert West) intercepts them and forces them back to work -
has ample supplies and 300 men
De La Warr
1610 – De La Warr Became governor of Jamestown
He arrives with orders from the VA Company that amount to a declaration of war
against the Indians
De La Warr led troops on vicious campaigns against the Irish
He raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched
cornfields
1614 – Peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War
1622 – Indians struck back killing 347 settlers. The VA Company issues new orders of war against the Indians
1644 – Indians begin the Second Anglo-Powhatan War, but are defeated again
1646 – Peace treaty banished the Chesapeake Indians from white areas of
settlement
1685 – By this time, the English considered the Powhatan peoples extinct
Powhatans’ End
Their end was caused by the three Ds:
Disease – Native peoples were extremely susceptible to European illnesses
(smallpox and measles)
Disorganization
Disposability – The Indians provided no economic function for the VA colonists.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Cash crop - John Rolfe successfully cross breeds native and West Indian tobacco
Jamestown goes tobacco mad
grown on sidewalk and between grave markers
stories of fantastic fortunes spur its development
used as a medium of exchange
James I disapproved of smoking - "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,
harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Introduction of private property (1617-1618) –
Effect –
Introduction of the headright system
for each person brought to America one got 50 acres of land free
led to abuses - sea captains kidnapping children, drunks, etc.
primary purpose was not land distribution but an adequate supply of labor -
U.S.
colonial history is rift with accounts of chronic labor shortages
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Political freedom
charters granted English citizens all the rights of Englishmen - English common
law applied in the colonies as well (1624 or earlier)
House of Burgesses - 1619 - first representative assembly in U.S.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
1619 - the company sought to recruit “fair and uncorrupt maidens”
its purpose was to provide a stable environment
150 pounds of tobacco purchased a wife - gave the right to build a house and no longer live in barracks
Slavery
1619 – Sketchy records show that 20 Africans were sold as either slaves or servants,
thus planting the seeds of the North American slave system
Indentured servants were also used – people who bound themselves to work for a
number of years to pay their passage to the New World
1700 – Blacks made up 14% of the colony’s population
Maryland
Maryland
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Was an advisor, friend of the king, and a recent convert to Catholicism
He received the charter of Maryland. He wanted to:
Reap financial profits
Create a refuge for his fellow Catholics (Protestant England was still
persecuting Catholics)
2nd Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert)
When George Calvert died before the charter was completed, Maryland went to
Cecilius
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
Was originally settled as a haven for Catholics who faced persecution in England
This was not profitable and Calvert opened the land to Protestants
Protestants out number Catholics quickly which lead to the Toleration Act in 1649
Guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians
Population
Most white colonist that came to Chesapeake came as indentured servants
To meet the need people started kidnapping kids from London and sending them as
servants
30,000 to 50,000 convicts were also sent here to work
75% of servants were males between 15 and 24
Death
High death rate plagued this area because of disease.
55% of those born in Chesapeake died before 20 in the 1600’s
Family structure was different here because of high death rate
Town Growth
Town growth was slow because of agricultural
This hurt the education of the children in this area
It was left to individual families
From 1600 to mid 1700’s only 25 percent of women could write their name
Colonizing the Carolinas
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1655 England secured claims to several West Indian islands, including Jamaica.
Sugar formed the foundation of the West Indian economy.
Importing of enslaved Africans to work the sugar plantations.
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1661 Barbados slave code defined the slaves’ legal status and their masters’
prerogatives.
Profitable sugar-plantation system crowded out almost all other forms of Caribbean
agriculture.
1670 Arrival in the Carolinas of displaced English settlers from Barbados, with the
slave code.
Civil War
Charles I dismissed Parliament in 1629
When he recalled it in 1640, they were mutinous
Civil war erupted. Oliver Cromwell led an army against the king and beheaded Charles
Colonization had been interrupted during this period
Charles II -Restoration
The son of the decapitated king was restored to the throne in 1660
Carolina was created in 1663, after the king granted to eight of his favorite nobles
land
Settled in 1670
Purpose of the colony
Hoped to grow foodstuffs to feed the sugar plantations in the West Indies
Export non-English products, such as wine, silk, and olive oil
Economy in the Carolinas
Carolina prospered by developing close economic ties with the West Indies
Rice eventually emerged as the principal export crop in Carolina
Rice was an exotic food in England
Rice was grown in Africa, so the Carolinas were paying high prices for African
slaves
1710 – Slaves made up a majority of the population in Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina
North Carolina has been called “the quintessence of Virginia’s discontent.”
“Squatters, "the newcomers without legal rights to the soil, raised crops with slaves.
1712 North Carolina officially separated from South Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
North Carolina shared with tiny Rhode Island several distinctions:
Most democratic
Most independent-minded
Least aristocratic of the original thirteen English colonies
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
Bloody relations between Indians and Europeans:
1711-1713 Tuscarora War
Tuscaroras became the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
1715-1716 Yamasee War in South Carolina
Map Carolinas
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
1733 Georgia colony founded as a buffer.
It was named in honor of King George II of England.
Launched by a high-minded group of philanthropists as a haven for wretched souls imprisoned for debt.
Georgia was determined to keep slavery out.
Founder: James Oglethorpe.
The Plantation Colonies
England’s southern mainland colonies shared:
Devotion to exporting agricultural products, mainly tobacco and rice;
Slavery;
Growth of cities;
Religious toleration;
All were in some degree expansionary.
Chapter 3
Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619–1700
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
1517 Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation.
German Martin Luther and John Calvin of Geneva had profound effect on the
thought and character of America.
1536 Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism (cont.)
Major doctrines:
Predestination—the elect destined for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment.
Conversion—the receipt of God’s free gift.
1530 King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church
Puritans—English religious reformers wanted a total purification of English
Christianity.
Controversy over church membership led to the Separatists breaking from the
Church of England.
King James I (1603-1625) threatened to harass the bothersome Separatists out of
England
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
1608 First Separatists fled to Holland.
Over 12 years they became distressed by the “Dutchification” of their children.
1620 Some Separatists (known as Pilgrims) sailed on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay.
Mayflower Compact an agreement to form a government and submit to the will of
the majority under some regulations.
Picture Plymouth
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans
1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630 70,000 refugees leave England during the Great Migration (see Maps 3.1; 3.2)
Puritans believed they had a “calling” from God to lead the new religious
experiment
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth (cont)
John Winthrop becomes governor.
Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the biggest and most influential colony.
Colonists believed they had a covenant with God to build a holy society as a model
for all humankind.
Map
Building the Bay Colony
Franchise was extended to all “freemen”—adult males who belonged to Puritans
congregations.
Unchurched men remained voteless.
The Bay Colony was not a democracy.
Nonbelievers and believers paid taxes for the government-supported church.
Building the Bay Colony
(cont.)
John Cotton was a prominent lead in the Massachusetts “Bible Commonwealth.”
“Protestant ethic” involved serious commitment to work and world pursuits.
They enjoyed simple pleasures.
They passed laws regarding pleasure activities.
Life to the Puritans was serious business.
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
Quakers, who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy, were persecuted.
Anne Hutchinson carried to logical extremes the Puritan doctrine of predestination known as antinomianism. (Started in 1636)
1638 she was brought to trial, set out for Rhode Island, then moved to New York,
where she and her family were killed by the Indians.
Anne Hutchinson
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth (cont.)
Roger Williams was an extreme Separatist.
He challenged clergymen to make a clear break with the Church of England;
He challenged the legality of the Bay Colony’s charter;
He challenged the civil authority to regulate religious behavior.
1635 he was tried by the authorities.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
1636 Roger Williams, with the aid of Indians, fled to Rhode Island.
He built a Baptist church in Providence.
He established complete freedom of religion, even for Jews and Catholics.
He demanded no oaths.
He sheltered abused Quakers.
Rhode Island became the most liberal colony.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
(cont.)
Rhode Islanders:
Exercised simple manhood suffrage.
Achieved remarkable freedom of opportunity.
Rhode Island, planted by dissenters and exiles, became strongly individualistic
and stubbornly independent.
New England Spreads Out
Contained a sprinkling of Dutch and English.
1635 Hartford was founded.
1638 New Haven was founded.
1639 Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders: a modern constitution that established a
regime democratically controlled by the “substantial” citizens.
1641 New Hampshire was absorbed by the Bay Colony.
1677 Plymouth was absorbed by Massachusetts.
1679 King Charles II separated New Hampshire from Massachusetts and made it
a royal colony.
Map New England
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
1643 experiment in union when four colonies united to form the New England
Confederation.
Primary aim was to defend against the Indians.
Each colony had two votes.
The confederation was essentially an exclusive Puritan club.
Membership—the Bay Colony, Plymouth, New Haven, Connecticut.
1660 King Charles II was restored and wanted to take an active, aggressive hand
in the management of the colonies.
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence (cont.)
1662 Charles II gave Connecticut a sea-to-sea charter that legalized the squatter
settlements.
1662 Granted the outcasts in Rhode Island a new charter sanctioning religious
tolerance.
1684 Bay Colony charter was revoked by the London authorities.
Chart page 48
Letter
The New England Family
Contrasts in New England life:
The settlers of 1600s New England added ten years to their life span
First generations of Puritans averaged 70 years
They tended to migrate not as single persons but as families and the family
remained the center of New England life
New England’s population grew from natural reproduction.
The New England Family
Married life in New England
Early marriage encouraged the booming birthrate
Women generally married in their early twenties
Produced babies every two years
A married woman could experience up to ten pregnancies and rear as many as
eight children.
The New England Family
Other contrasts between the southern and New England ways of life:
The fragility of southern family advanced the economic security of southern
women
Because men frequently died young, the southern colonies allowed married
women to retain separate title to the property and inherit their husband’s estates.
Women's Rights
Generally women gave up their property rights when they married
Women still could not vote.
New England authorities could intervene to restrain abusive spouses.
The New England Family
The laws of Puritan New England sought to defend the integrity of marriages:
Divorce was exceeding rare and the authorities commonly ordered separated
couples to reunite
Outright abandonment was among the few permissible grounds for divorce
Adultery was another
Half-Way Covenant
The Half-Way Covenant weakened the distinction between the “elect” and others.
The doors of the Puritan churches swung fully open to all comers, whether
converted or not.
Strict religious purity was sacrificed to the cause of wider religious participation.
Women were now in the majority.
The Glorious Revolution
1688-1689 The Glorious Revolution overthrew Catholic James II and enthroned
Protestant rulers William III and Mary II.
The Salem Witch Trials
1692 The Salem Witch trials:
A group of girls claimed to have bewitched by certain older women
A hysterical “witch hunt” ensued, leading to the legal lynching of twenty individuals, nineteen of whom were hanged and one pressed to death.
Two dogs were also hanged.
The reign of horror in Salem grew not only from the turmoil of the wars with the
Indians, but also from the unsettled social and religious conditions of evolving
Massachusetts.
Ended in 1693
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
16th century the Netherlands rebelled against Catholic Spain.
17th century was a Dutch golden age.
Dutch expanded their commercial and naval powers becoming a leading colonial
power.
Dutch East India Company became powerful.
1609 Henry Hudson ventured in Delaware Bay and New York Bay, the Hudson River.
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland (cont.)
1623-1624 New Netherland was planted in the Hudson River area by the Dutch
West India Company (see Map 3.4).
They purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians.
New Amsterdam—later New York City—was a company town.
It was run by and for the Dutch company.
Dutch Residues in New York
1664 England seized New Netherland from the Dutch.
Charles II granted his brother, the Duke of York, the former New Amsterdam area.
New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
England received a splendid harbor and the stately Hudson River.
Dutch influence:
Named places
Left their imprint of the gambrel-roofed architecture
Influenced social customs and folkways
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
Quakers, English dissenters, known as the Religious Society of Friends:
refused to support the established Church of England taxes;
built simple meeting houses;
congregated without a paid clergy;
They took no oaths;
They were people of deep conviction:
They abhorred strife, warfare and refused military service.
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania (cont.)
1660 William Penn was attracted to the Quaker faith, suffering much persecution.
Penn’s thoughts turned to the New World, where he wanted to experiment with
liberal ideas in government and also to make money.
1681 he secured land from the King.
The king called the land Pennsylvania (“Penn’s Woodland”).
Pennsylvania was the best advertised colony.
His liberal land policy attracted a heavy inflow of immigrants.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
1681 Penn launched his colony
“Squatters” were Dutch, Swedish, English, and Welsh
Philadelphia (“brotherly love”) was carefully planned
He bought land from the Indians and Chief Tammany
He treated the Indians fairly
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Pennsylvania seemed, for a brief period, the land of amicable Indian-white relations.
Quaker tolerance proved the undoing of Quaker Indian policy.
There was no tax supported state church.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
“Blue laws” prohibited “ungodly revelers,” stage plays, playing cards, dice, games,
and excessive hilarity.
By 1700 colony surpassed all other colonies but Virginia and Massachusetts in
population and wealth.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
1664 New Jersey was started by two noble proprietors having received land from
the Duke of York.
1674 the Quakers bought West New Jersey.
Later East New Jersey was acquired.
1703 Delaware was granted its assembly.
Quakers Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Noted features of the colony:
A. No provision for a military defense;
B. No restrictions on immigration;
C. Quakers developed a strong dislike of slavery;
D. Made some progress toward social reform;
E. Contained rich ethnic groups;
F. Afforded economic opportunity, civil liberty, and religious freedom
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
The middle colonies—New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania common
features:
The soil was fertile and the expanse was broad;
Became known as the “bread colonies”;
Rivers played a vital role—the Susquehanna, the Delaware, and the Hudson fur
trade;
Industry flourished in the middle colonies;
Stimulated commerce and the growth of seaports—New York and Philadelphia
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
The middle colonies were midway between New England and the southern plantations:
Landholding intermediate in size;
Local government was between personalized town meetings and diffused county
government of the south;
Fewer than in New England, more than the South.
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
Distinctions of their own:
More ethnic population;
An unusual degree of religious toleration and democratic control;
Desirable land was easier to acquire;
Considerable amount of economic and social democracy;
Finally, Britain continued its hands-off policies.
Timeline Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Tobacco Economy
Chesapeake planters recruited some 100,000 indentured servants to the region by 1700.
These “white slaves” represented more than three-quarters of all European
immigrants.
Indentured servants led a hard life
They looked forward to becoming free and acquiring land
Even after freedom they had to hire themselves for pitifully low wages.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Many impoverished freedmen were frustrated with broken hopes and failure to find single women to marry
Virginia’s Governor William Berkeley.
The freed indentured servants could not make enough money to pay high taxes or
buy land.
They want to explore the Native American land but a treaty prohibited it
Nathaniel Bacon put together a group and started attacking Indian tribes
Bacon’s Rebellion
Berkeley’s friendly policies toward the Indians caused him to refuse to retaliate against a series of brutal Indian attacks.
Bacon’s Rebellion ended when he died of disease.
House of Burgess
Cut taxes
Opened up Native American land
Slave Trade
Bacon’s Rebellion help fuel the move from Indentured Servants to African slaves
What were the advantages?
Advantages
Less discontent because they would not be freed
Cheaper than indentured servants
More plentiful
Slave Trade
Started with criminals and war captives
As demand increased African raiders moved inland looking for slaves
Once captured they were marched to the coast
Inspected
Branded
Put in prison
Slave Trade
Middle Passage
The transportation from Africa to the New World
1680s mass expansion of slavery in colonies:
7 million came to the New World in three centuries
400,000 to North America
Many died because of
Suffocation
Disease
violence
Picture
Map Slave Trade
Picture Middle Passage
Slave Trade
Olaudah Equiano
A slave who learned to read and write and record his experiences in his
autobiography
Slave Trade
Early Abolitionist
The earliest were the Quakers (1688) under the leadership of two men.
Samuel Sewall
Judge that stated “all Men, as they are the sons of Adam”
John Woolman
Urged Quakers to free their slaves
Slave Trade
Rebellion
Harsh rules did not prevent rebellion
Stono, South Carolina was site of one of the largest uprising
30 white Colonists were killed before militia contained it. Those slaves that survived were tortured to great extremes.
Led to new laws
Slave Trade
Slave Codes
Sets of laws passed to prevent escape and discourage revolt
Forbade slaves to meet together
To leave the plantations
Learn to read and write
Own weapons
A master who killed a slave while correcting him could not be charged with
murder
Southern Society
As slavery spread, the gaps in the South’s social structure widened:
A defined hierarchy of wealth and status
At the top were the powerful great planters
Most of these leaders were a hard-working, business-like lot, laboring long hours.
Beneath the planters were the small farmers, the largest social group.
Still lower were the landless whites.
Beneath them were the former indenturers.
Southern Society
Few cities sprouted in the colonial South; thus an urban professional class, lawyers
and financiers, were slow to emerge.
Southern life revolved around the great plantations.
Waterways were the principle means of transportation.
Roads were very wretched.
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Unit 2
1607-1754
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
Joint-stock company
Parliamentary control of money
Personal financing risky - Raleigh lost more than $100,000
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
London Company formed - divided into Plymouth and Virginia Companies
12 pounds investment - $62 in gold per share
December 1606 - Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery leave England
May 14, 1607 - 120 land - 104 settle - Indian attack on 5-26-1607
only 38 left alive after the first six months - death rates of 1/2 to 1/3 were not
uncommon in colonizing - settled in a low swampy area
II.
Early Map
Map Jamestown
Map Jamestown
Picture Jamestown
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
John Smith provide the early leadership and discipline necessary to make the colony
successful
basic problem was the expectation of easy gold
no work no eat policy
skillful Indian relations
periodically resupplied but continued to have problems
no private property
harsh military discipline - employees of the company marched to and from the
fields twice a day to the beat of a drum
lack of a cash crop
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
“starving time” 1609-1610
Smith had left the colony
reduced to eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, horsehide, and the
corpses of dead men
1610 - relief expedition under Gates finds the men so pitiful they load up to go
back to England
Baron De La Warre (Robert West) intercepts them and forces them back to work -
has ample supplies and 300 men
De La Warr
1610 – De La Warr Became governor of Jamestown
He arrives with orders from the VA Company that amount to a declaration of war
against the Indians
De La Warr led troops on vicious campaigns against the Irish
He raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched
cornfields
1614 – Peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War
1622 – Indians struck back killing 347 settlers. The VA Company issues new orders of war against the Indians
1644 – Indians begin the Second Anglo-Powhatan War, but are defeated again
1646 – Peace treaty banished the Chesapeake Indians from white areas of
settlement
1685 – By this time, the English considered the Powhatan peoples extinct
Powhatans’ End
Their end was caused by the three Ds:
Disease – Native peoples were extremely susceptible to European illnesses
(smallpox and measles)
Disorganization
Disposability – The Indians provided no economic function for the VA colonists.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Cash crop - John Rolfe successfully cross breeds native and West Indian tobacco
Jamestown goes tobacco mad
grown on sidewalk and between grave markers
stories of fantastic fortunes spur its development
used as a medium of exchange
James I disapproved of smoking - "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,
harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Introduction of private property (1617-1618) –
Effect –
Introduction of the headright system
for each person brought to America one got 50 acres of land free
led to abuses - sea captains kidnapping children, drunks, etc.
primary purpose was not land distribution but an adequate supply of labor -
U.S.
colonial history is rift with accounts of chronic labor shortages
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Political freedom
charters granted English citizens all the rights of Englishmen - English common
law applied in the colonies as well (1624 or earlier)
House of Burgesses - 1619 - first representative assembly in U.S.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
1619 - the company sought to recruit “fair and uncorrupt maidens”
its purpose was to provide a stable environment
150 pounds of tobacco purchased a wife - gave the right to build a house and no longer live in barracks
Slavery
1619 – Sketchy records show that 20 Africans were sold as either slaves or servants,
thus planting the seeds of the North American slave system
Indentured servants were also used – people who bound themselves to work for a
number of years to pay their passage to the New World
1700 – Blacks made up 14% of the colony’s population
Maryland
Maryland
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Was an advisor, friend of the king, and a recent convert to Catholicism
He received the charter of Maryland. He wanted to:
Reap financial profits
Create a refuge for his fellow Catholics (Protestant England was still
persecuting Catholics)
2nd Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert)
When George Calvert died before the charter was completed, Maryland went to
Cecilius
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
Was originally settled as a haven for Catholics who faced persecution in England
This was not profitable and Calvert opened the land to Protestants
Protestants out number Catholics quickly which lead to the Toleration Act in 1649
Guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians
Population
Most white colonist that came to Chesapeake came as indentured servants
To meet the need people started kidnapping kids from London and sending them as
servants
30,000 to 50,000 convicts were also sent here to work
75% of servants were males between 15 and 24
Death
High death rate plagued this area because of disease.
55% of those born in Chesapeake died before 20 in the 1600’s
Family structure was different here because of high death rate
Town Growth
Town growth was slow because of agricultural
This hurt the education of the children in this area
It was left to individual families
From 1600 to mid 1700’s only 25 percent of women could write their name
Colonizing the Carolinas
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1655 England secured claims to several West Indian islands, including Jamaica.
Sugar formed the foundation of the West Indian economy.
Importing of enslaved Africans to work the sugar plantations.
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1661 Barbados slave code defined the slaves’ legal status and their masters’
prerogatives.
Profitable sugar-plantation system crowded out almost all other forms of Caribbean
agriculture.
1670 Arrival in the Carolinas of displaced English settlers from Barbados, with the
slave code.
Civil War
Charles I dismissed Parliament in 1629
When he recalled it in 1640, they were mutinous
Civil war erupted. Oliver Cromwell led an army against the king and beheaded Charles
Colonization had been interrupted during this period
Charles II -Restoration
The son of the decapitated king was restored to the throne in 1660
Carolina was created in 1663, after the king granted to eight of his favorite nobles
land
Settled in 1670
Purpose of the colony
Hoped to grow foodstuffs to feed the sugar plantations in the West Indies
Export non-English products, such as wine, silk, and olive oil
Economy in the Carolinas
Carolina prospered by developing close economic ties with the West Indies
Rice eventually emerged as the principal export crop in Carolina
Rice was an exotic food in England
Rice was grown in Africa, so the Carolinas were paying high prices for African
slaves
1710 – Slaves made up a majority of the population in Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina
North Carolina has been called “the quintessence of Virginia’s discontent.”
“Squatters, "the newcomers without legal rights to the soil, raised crops with slaves.
1712 North Carolina officially separated from South Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
North Carolina shared with tiny Rhode Island several distinctions:
Most democratic
Most independent-minded
Least aristocratic of the original thirteen English colonies
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
Bloody relations between Indians and Europeans:
1711-1713 Tuscarora War
Tuscaroras became the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
1715-1716 Yamasee War in South Carolina
Map Carolinas
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
1733 Georgia colony founded as a buffer.
It was named in honor of King George II of England.
Launched by a high-minded group of philanthropists as a haven for wretched souls imprisoned for debt.
Georgia was determined to keep slavery out.
Founder: James Oglethorpe.
The Plantation Colonies
England’s southern mainland colonies shared:
Devotion to exporting agricultural products, mainly tobacco and rice;
Slavery;
Growth of cities;
Religious toleration;
All were in some degree expansionary.
Chapter 3
Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619–1700
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
1517 Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation.
German Martin Luther and John Calvin of Geneva had profound effect on the
thought and character of America.
1536 Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism (cont.)
Major doctrines:
Predestination—the elect destined for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment.
Conversion—the receipt of God’s free gift.
1530 King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church
Puritans—English religious reformers wanted a total purification of English
Christianity.
Controversy over church membership led to the Separatists breaking from the
Church of England.
King James I (1603-1625) threatened to harass the bothersome Separatists out of
England
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
1608 First Separatists fled to Holland.
Over 12 years they became distressed by the “Dutchification” of their children.
1620 Some Separatists (known as Pilgrims) sailed on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay.
Mayflower Compact an agreement to form a government and submit to the will of
the majority under some regulations.
Picture Plymouth
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans
1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630 70,000 refugees leave England during the Great Migration (see Maps 3.1; 3.2)
Puritans believed they had a “calling” from God to lead the new religious
experiment
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth (cont)
John Winthrop becomes governor.
Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the biggest and most influential colony.
Colonists believed they had a covenant with God to build a holy society as a model
for all humankind.
Map
Building the Bay Colony
Franchise was extended to all “freemen”—adult males who belonged to Puritans
congregations.
Unchurched men remained voteless.
The Bay Colony was not a democracy.
Nonbelievers and believers paid taxes for the government-supported church.
Building the Bay Colony
(cont.)
John Cotton was a prominent lead in the Massachusetts “Bible Commonwealth.”
“Protestant ethic” involved serious commitment to work and world pursuits.
They enjoyed simple pleasures.
They passed laws regarding pleasure activities.
Life to the Puritans was serious business.
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
Quakers, who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy, were persecuted.
Anne Hutchinson carried to logical extremes the Puritan doctrine of predestination known as antinomianism. (Started in 1636)
1638 she was brought to trial, set out for Rhode Island, then moved to New York,
where she and her family were killed by the Indians.
Anne Hutchinson
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth (cont.)
Roger Williams was an extreme Separatist.
He challenged clergymen to make a clear break with the Church of England;
He challenged the legality of the Bay Colony’s charter;
He challenged the civil authority to regulate religious behavior.
1635 he was tried by the authorities.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
1636 Roger Williams, with the aid of Indians, fled to Rhode Island.
He built a Baptist church in Providence.
He established complete freedom of religion, even for Jews and Catholics.
He demanded no oaths.
He sheltered abused Quakers.
Rhode Island became the most liberal colony.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
(cont.)
Rhode Islanders:
Exercised simple manhood suffrage.
Achieved remarkable freedom of opportunity.
Rhode Island, planted by dissenters and exiles, became strongly individualistic
and stubbornly independent.
New England Spreads Out
Contained a sprinkling of Dutch and English.
1635 Hartford was founded.
1638 New Haven was founded.
1639 Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders: a modern constitution that established a
regime democratically controlled by the “substantial” citizens.
1641 New Hampshire was absorbed by the Bay Colony.
1677 Plymouth was absorbed by Massachusetts.
1679 King Charles II separated New Hampshire from Massachusetts and made it
a royal colony.
Map New England
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
1643 experiment in union when four colonies united to form the New England
Confederation.
Primary aim was to defend against the Indians.
Each colony had two votes.
The confederation was essentially an exclusive Puritan club.
Membership—the Bay Colony, Plymouth, New Haven, Connecticut.
1660 King Charles II was restored and wanted to take an active, aggressive hand
in the management of the colonies.
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence (cont.)
1662 Charles II gave Connecticut a sea-to-sea charter that legalized the squatter
settlements.
1662 Granted the outcasts in Rhode Island a new charter sanctioning religious
tolerance.
1684 Bay Colony charter was revoked by the London authorities.
Chart page 48
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The New England Family
Contrasts in New England life:
The settlers of 1600s New England added ten years to their life span
First generations of Puritans averaged 70 years
They tended to migrate not as single persons but as families and the family
remained the center of New England life
New England’s population grew from natural reproduction.
The New England Family
Married life in New England
Early marriage encouraged the booming birthrate
Women generally married in their early twenties
Produced babies every two years
A married woman could experience up to ten pregnancies and rear as many as
eight children.
The New England Family
Other contrasts between the southern and New England ways of life:
The fragility of southern family advanced the economic security of southern
women
Because men frequently died young, the southern colonies allowed married
women to retain separate title to the property and inherit their husband’s estates.
Women's Rights
Generally women gave up their property rights when they married
Women still could not vote.
New England authorities could intervene to restrain abusive spouses.
The New England Family
The laws of Puritan New England sought to defend the integrity of marriages:
Divorce was exceeding rare and the authorities commonly ordered separated
couples to reunite
Outright abandonment was among the few permissible grounds for divorce
Adultery was another
Half-Way Covenant
The Half-Way Covenant weakened the distinction between the “elect” and others.
The doors of the Puritan churches swung fully open to all comers, whether
converted or not.
Strict religious purity was sacrificed to the cause of wider religious participation.
Women were now in the majority.
The Glorious Revolution
1688-1689 The Glorious Revolution overthrew Catholic James II and enthroned
Protestant rulers William III and Mary II.
The Salem Witch Trials
1692 The Salem Witch trials:
A group of girls claimed to have bewitched by certain older women
A hysterical “witch hunt” ensued, leading to the legal lynching of twenty individuals, nineteen of whom were hanged and one pressed to death.
Two dogs were also hanged.
The reign of horror in Salem grew not only from the turmoil of the wars with the
Indians, but also from the unsettled social and religious conditions of evolving
Massachusetts.
Ended in 1693
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
16th century the Netherlands rebelled against Catholic Spain.
17th century was a Dutch golden age.
Dutch expanded their commercial and naval powers becoming a leading colonial
power.
Dutch East India Company became powerful.
1609 Henry Hudson ventured in Delaware Bay and New York Bay, the Hudson River.
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland (cont.)
1623-1624 New Netherland was planted in the Hudson River area by the Dutch
West India Company (see Map 3.4).
They purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians.
New Amsterdam—later New York City—was a company town.
It was run by and for the Dutch company.
Dutch Residues in New York
1664 England seized New Netherland from the Dutch.
Charles II granted his brother, the Duke of York, the former New Amsterdam area.
New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
England received a splendid harbor and the stately Hudson River.
Dutch influence:
Named places
Left their imprint of the gambrel-roofed architecture
Influenced social customs and folkways
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
Quakers, English dissenters, known as the Religious Society of Friends:
refused to support the established Church of England taxes;
built simple meeting houses;
congregated without a paid clergy;
They took no oaths;
They were people of deep conviction:
They abhorred strife, warfare and refused military service.
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania (cont.)
1660 William Penn was attracted to the Quaker faith, suffering much persecution.
Penn’s thoughts turned to the New World, where he wanted to experiment with
liberal ideas in government and also to make money.
1681 he secured land from the King.
The king called the land Pennsylvania (“Penn’s Woodland”).
Pennsylvania was the best advertised colony.
His liberal land policy attracted a heavy inflow of immigrants.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
1681 Penn launched his colony
“Squatters” were Dutch, Swedish, English, and Welsh
Philadelphia (“brotherly love”) was carefully planned
He bought land from the Indians and Chief Tammany
He treated the Indians fairly
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Pennsylvania seemed, for a brief period, the land of amicable Indian-white relations.
Quaker tolerance proved the undoing of Quaker Indian policy.
There was no tax supported state church.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
“Blue laws” prohibited “ungodly revelers,” stage plays, playing cards, dice, games,
and excessive hilarity.
By 1700 colony surpassed all other colonies but Virginia and Massachusetts in
population and wealth.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
1664 New Jersey was started by two noble proprietors having received land from
the Duke of York.
1674 the Quakers bought West New Jersey.
Later East New Jersey was acquired.
1703 Delaware was granted its assembly.
Quakers Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Noted features of the colony:
A. No provision for a military defense;
B. No restrictions on immigration;
C. Quakers developed a strong dislike of slavery;
D. Made some progress toward social reform;
E. Contained rich ethnic groups;
F. Afforded economic opportunity, civil liberty, and religious freedom
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
The middle colonies—New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania common
features:
The soil was fertile and the expanse was broad;
Became known as the “bread colonies”;
Rivers played a vital role—the Susquehanna, the Delaware, and the Hudson fur
trade;
Industry flourished in the middle colonies;
Stimulated commerce and the growth of seaports—New York and Philadelphia
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
The middle colonies were midway between New England and the southern plantations:
Landholding intermediate in size;
Local government was between personalized town meetings and diffused county
government of the south;
Fewer than in New England, more than the South.
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
Distinctions of their own:
More ethnic population;
An unusual degree of religious toleration and democratic control;
Desirable land was easier to acquire;
Considerable amount of economic and social democracy;
Finally, Britain continued its hands-off policies.
Timeline Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Tobacco Economy
Chesapeake planters recruited some 100,000 indentured servants to the region by 1700.
These “white slaves” represented more than three-quarters of all European
immigrants.
Indentured servants led a hard life
They looked forward to becoming free and acquiring land
Even after freedom they had to hire themselves for pitifully low wages.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Many impoverished freedmen were frustrated with broken hopes and failure to find single women to marry
Virginia’s Governor William Berkeley.
The freed indentured servants could not make enough money to pay high taxes or
buy land.
They want to explore the Native American land but a treaty prohibited it
Nathaniel Bacon put together a group and started attacking Indian tribes
Bacon’s Rebellion
Berkeley’s friendly policies toward the Indians caused him to refuse to retaliate against a series of brutal Indian attacks.
Bacon’s Rebellion ended when he died of disease.
House of Burgess
Cut taxes
Opened up Native American land
Slave Trade
Bacon’s Rebellion help fuel the move from Indentured Servants to African slaves
What were the advantages?
Advantages
Less discontent because they would not be freed
Cheaper than indentured servants
More plentiful
Slave Trade
Started with criminals and war captives
As demand increased African raiders moved inland looking for slaves
Once captured they were marched to the coast
Inspected
Branded
Put in prison
Slave Trade
Middle Passage
The transportation from Africa to the New World
1680s mass expansion of slavery in colonies:
7 million came to the New World in three centuries
400,000 to North America
Many died because of
Suffocation
Disease
violence
Picture
Map Slave Trade
Picture Middle Passage
Slave Trade
Olaudah Equiano
A slave who learned to read and write and record his experiences in his
autobiography
Slave Trade
Early Abolitionist
The earliest were the Quakers (1688) under the leadership of two men.
Samuel Sewall
Judge that stated “all Men, as they are the sons of Adam”
John Woolman
Urged Quakers to free their slaves
Slave Trade
Rebellion
Harsh rules did not prevent rebellion
Stono, South Carolina was site of one of the largest uprising
30 white Colonists were killed before militia contained it. Those slaves that survived were tortured to great extremes.
Led to new laws
Slave Trade
Slave Codes
Sets of laws passed to prevent escape and discourage revolt
Forbade slaves to meet together
To leave the plantations
Learn to read and write
Own weapons
A master who killed a slave while correcting him could not be charged with
murder
Southern Society
As slavery spread, the gaps in the South’s social structure widened:
A defined hierarchy of wealth and status
At the top were the powerful great planters
Most of these leaders were a hard-working, business-like lot, laboring long hours.
Beneath the planters were the small farmers, the largest social group.
Still lower were the landless whites.
Beneath them were the former indenturers.
Southern Society
Few cities sprouted in the colonial South; thus an urban professional class, lawyers
and financiers, were slow to emerge.
Southern life revolved around the great plantations.
Waterways were the principle means of transportation.
Roads were very wretched.
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Unit 2
1607-1754
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
Joint-stock company
Parliamentary control of money
Personal financing risky - Raleigh lost more than $100,000
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
London Company formed - divided into Plymouth and Virginia Companies
12 pounds investment - $62 in gold per share
December 1606 - Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery leave England
May 14, 1607 - 120 land - 104 settle - Indian attack on 5-26-1607
only 38 left alive after the first six months - death rates of 1/2 to 1/3 were not
uncommon in colonizing - settled in a low swampy area
II.
Early Map
Map Jamestown
Map Jamestown
Picture Jamestown
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
John Smith provide the early leadership and discipline necessary to make the colony
successful
basic problem was the expectation of easy gold
no work no eat policy
skillful Indian relations
periodically resupplied but continued to have problems
no private property
harsh military discipline - employees of the company marched to and from the
fields twice a day to the beat of a drum
lack of a cash crop
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
“starving time” 1609-1610
Smith had left the colony
reduced to eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, horsehide, and the
corpses of dead men
1610 - relief expedition under Gates finds the men so pitiful they load up to go
back to England
Baron De La Warre (Robert West) intercepts them and forces them back to work -
has ample supplies and 300 men
De La Warr
1610 – De La Warr Became governor of Jamestown
He arrives with orders from the VA Company that amount to a declaration of war
against the Indians
De La Warr led troops on vicious campaigns against the Irish
He raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched
cornfields
1614 – Peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War
1622 – Indians struck back killing 347 settlers. The VA Company issues new orders of war against the Indians
1644 – Indians begin the Second Anglo-Powhatan War, but are defeated again
1646 – Peace treaty banished the Chesapeake Indians from white areas of
settlement
1685 – By this time, the English considered the Powhatan peoples extinct
Powhatans’ End
Their end was caused by the three Ds:
Disease – Native peoples were extremely susceptible to European illnesses
(smallpox and measles)
Disorganization
Disposability – The Indians provided no economic function for the VA colonists.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Cash crop - John Rolfe successfully cross breeds native and West Indian tobacco
Jamestown goes tobacco mad
grown on sidewalk and between grave markers
stories of fantastic fortunes spur its development
used as a medium of exchange
James I disapproved of smoking - "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,
harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Introduction of private property (1617-1618) –
Effect –
Introduction of the headright system
for each person brought to America one got 50 acres of land free
led to abuses - sea captains kidnapping children, drunks, etc.
primary purpose was not land distribution but an adequate supply of labor -
U.S.
colonial history is rift with accounts of chronic labor shortages
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Political freedom
charters granted English citizens all the rights of Englishmen - English common
law applied in the colonies as well (1624 or earlier)
House of Burgesses - 1619 - first representative assembly in U.S.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
1619 - the company sought to recruit “fair and uncorrupt maidens”
its purpose was to provide a stable environment
150 pounds of tobacco purchased a wife - gave the right to build a house and no longer live in barracks
Slavery
1619 – Sketchy records show that 20 Africans were sold as either slaves or servants,
thus planting the seeds of the North American slave system
Indentured servants were also used – people who bound themselves to work for a
number of years to pay their passage to the New World
1700 – Blacks made up 14% of the colony’s population
Maryland
Maryland
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Was an advisor, friend of the king, and a recent convert to Catholicism
He received the charter of Maryland. He wanted to:
Reap financial profits
Create a refuge for his fellow Catholics (Protestant England was still
persecuting Catholics)
2nd Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert)
When George Calvert died before the charter was completed, Maryland went to
Cecilius
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
Was originally settled as a haven for Catholics who faced persecution in England
This was not profitable and Calvert opened the land to Protestants
Protestants out number Catholics quickly which lead to the Toleration Act in 1649
Guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians
Population
Most white colonist that came to Chesapeake came as indentured servants
To meet the need people started kidnapping kids from London and sending them as
servants
30,000 to 50,000 convicts were also sent here to work
75% of servants were males between 15 and 24
Death
High death rate plagued this area because of disease.
55% of those born in Chesapeake died before 20 in the 1600’s
Family structure was different here because of high death rate
Town Growth
Town growth was slow because of agricultural
This hurt the education of the children in this area
It was left to individual families
From 1600 to mid 1700’s only 25 percent of women could write their name
Colonizing the Carolinas
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1655 England secured claims to several West Indian islands, including Jamaica.
Sugar formed the foundation of the West Indian economy.
Importing of enslaved Africans to work the sugar plantations.
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1661 Barbados slave code defined the slaves’ legal status and their masters’
prerogatives.
Profitable sugar-plantation system crowded out almost all other forms of Caribbean
agriculture.
1670 Arrival in the Carolinas of displaced English settlers from Barbados, with the
slave code.
Civil War
Charles I dismissed Parliament in 1629
When he recalled it in 1640, they were mutinous
Civil war erupted. Oliver Cromwell led an army against the king and beheaded Charles
Colonization had been interrupted during this period
Charles II -Restoration
The son of the decapitated king was restored to the throne in 1660
Carolina was created in 1663, after the king granted to eight of his favorite nobles
land
Settled in 1670
Purpose of the colony
Hoped to grow foodstuffs to feed the sugar plantations in the West Indies
Export non-English products, such as wine, silk, and olive oil
Economy in the Carolinas
Carolina prospered by developing close economic ties with the West Indies
Rice eventually emerged as the principal export crop in Carolina
Rice was an exotic food in England
Rice was grown in Africa, so the Carolinas were paying high prices for African
slaves
1710 – Slaves made up a majority of the population in Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina
North Carolina has been called “the quintessence of Virginia’s discontent.”
“Squatters, "the newcomers without legal rights to the soil, raised crops with slaves.
1712 North Carolina officially separated from South Carolina
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
North Carolina shared with tiny Rhode Island several distinctions:
Most democratic
Most independent-minded
Least aristocratic of the original thirteen English colonies
The Emergence of North Carolina (cont.)
Bloody relations between Indians and Europeans:
1711-1713 Tuscarora War
Tuscaroras became the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
1715-1716 Yamasee War in South Carolina
Map Carolinas
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
1733 Georgia colony founded as a buffer.
It was named in honor of King George II of England.
Launched by a high-minded group of philanthropists as a haven for wretched souls imprisoned for debt.
Georgia was determined to keep slavery out.
Founder: James Oglethorpe.
The Plantation Colonies
England’s southern mainland colonies shared:
Devotion to exporting agricultural products, mainly tobacco and rice;
Slavery;
Growth of cities;
Religious toleration;
All were in some degree expansionary.
Chapter 3
Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619–1700
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
1517 Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation.
German Martin Luther and John Calvin of Geneva had profound effect on the
thought and character of America.
1536 Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism (cont.)
Major doctrines:
Predestination—the elect destined for eternal bliss and others for eternal torment.
Conversion—the receipt of God’s free gift.
1530 King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church
Puritans—English religious reformers wanted a total purification of English
Christianity.
Controversy over church membership led to the Separatists breaking from the
Church of England.
King James I (1603-1625) threatened to harass the bothersome Separatists out of
England
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
1608 First Separatists fled to Holland.
Over 12 years they became distressed by the “Dutchification” of their children.
1620 Some Separatists (known as Pilgrims) sailed on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay.
Mayflower Compact an agreement to form a government and submit to the will of
the majority under some regulations.
Picture Plymouth
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans
1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630 70,000 refugees leave England during the Great Migration (see Maps 3.1; 3.2)
Puritans believed they had a “calling” from God to lead the new religious
experiment
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth (cont)
John Winthrop becomes governor.
Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the biggest and most influential colony.
Colonists believed they had a covenant with God to build a holy society as a model
for all humankind.
Map
Building the Bay Colony
Franchise was extended to all “freemen”—adult males who belonged to Puritans
congregations.
Unchurched men remained voteless.
The Bay Colony was not a democracy.
Nonbelievers and believers paid taxes for the government-supported church.
Building the Bay Colony
(cont.)
John Cotton was a prominent lead in the Massachusetts “Bible Commonwealth.”
“Protestant ethic” involved serious commitment to work and world pursuits.
They enjoyed simple pleasures.
They passed laws regarding pleasure activities.
Life to the Puritans was serious business.
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
Quakers, who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy, were persecuted.
Anne Hutchinson carried to logical extremes the Puritan doctrine of predestination known as antinomianism. (Started in 1636)
1638 she was brought to trial, set out for Rhode Island, then moved to New York,
where she and her family were killed by the Indians.
Anne Hutchinson
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth (cont.)
Roger Williams was an extreme Separatist.
He challenged clergymen to make a clear break with the Church of England;
He challenged the legality of the Bay Colony’s charter;
He challenged the civil authority to regulate religious behavior.
1635 he was tried by the authorities.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
1636 Roger Williams, with the aid of Indians, fled to Rhode Island.
He built a Baptist church in Providence.
He established complete freedom of religion, even for Jews and Catholics.
He demanded no oaths.
He sheltered abused Quakers.
Rhode Island became the most liberal colony.
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
(cont.)
Rhode Islanders:
Exercised simple manhood suffrage.
Achieved remarkable freedom of opportunity.
Rhode Island, planted by dissenters and exiles, became strongly individualistic
and stubbornly independent.
New England Spreads Out
Contained a sprinkling of Dutch and English.
1635 Hartford was founded.
1638 New Haven was founded.
1639 Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders: a modern constitution that established a
regime democratically controlled by the “substantial” citizens.
1641 New Hampshire was absorbed by the Bay Colony.
1677 Plymouth was absorbed by Massachusetts.
1679 King Charles II separated New Hampshire from Massachusetts and made it
a royal colony.
Map New England
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
1643 experiment in union when four colonies united to form the New England
Confederation.
Primary aim was to defend against the Indians.
Each colony had two votes.
The confederation was essentially an exclusive Puritan club.
Membership—the Bay Colony, Plymouth, New Haven, Connecticut.
1660 King Charles II was restored and wanted to take an active, aggressive hand
in the management of the colonies.
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence (cont.)
1662 Charles II gave Connecticut a sea-to-sea charter that legalized the squatter
settlements.
1662 Granted the outcasts in Rhode Island a new charter sanctioning religious
tolerance.
1684 Bay Colony charter was revoked by the London authorities.
Chart page 48
Letter
The New England Family
Contrasts in New England life:
The settlers of 1600s New England added ten years to their life span
First generations of Puritans averaged 70 years
They tended to migrate not as single persons but as families and the family
remained the center of New England life
New England’s population grew from natural reproduction.
The New England Family
Married life in New England
Early marriage encouraged the booming birthrate
Women generally married in their early twenties
Produced babies every two years
A married woman could experience up to ten pregnancies and rear as many as
eight children.
The New England Family
Other contrasts between the southern and New England ways of life:
The fragility of southern family advanced the economic security of southern
women
Because men frequently died young, the southern colonies allowed married
women to retain separate title to the property and inherit their husband’s estates.
Women's Rights
Generally women gave up their property rights when they married
Women still could not vote.
New England authorities could intervene to restrain abusive spouses.
The New England Family
The laws of Puritan New England sought to defend the integrity of marriages:
Divorce was exceeding rare and the authorities commonly ordered separated
couples to reunite
Outright abandonment was among the few permissible grounds for divorce
Adultery was another
Half-Way Covenant
The Half-Way Covenant weakened the distinction between the “elect” and others.
The doors of the Puritan churches swung fully open to all comers, whether
converted or not.
Strict religious purity was sacrificed to the cause of wider religious participation.
Women were now in the majority.
The Glorious Revolution
1688-1689 The Glorious Revolution overthrew Catholic James II and enthroned
Protestant rulers William III and Mary II.
The Salem Witch Trials
1692 The Salem Witch trials:
A group of girls claimed to have bewitched by certain older women
A hysterical “witch hunt” ensued, leading to the legal lynching of twenty individuals, nineteen of whom were hanged and one pressed to death.
Two dogs were also hanged.
The reign of horror in Salem grew not only from the turmoil of the wars with the
Indians, but also from the unsettled social and religious conditions of evolving
Massachusetts.
Ended in 1693
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
16th century the Netherlands rebelled against Catholic Spain.
17th century was a Dutch golden age.
Dutch expanded their commercial and naval powers becoming a leading colonial
power.
Dutch East India Company became powerful.
1609 Henry Hudson ventured in Delaware Bay and New York Bay, the Hudson River.
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland (cont.)
1623-1624 New Netherland was planted in the Hudson River area by the Dutch
West India Company (see Map 3.4).
They purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians.
New Amsterdam—later New York City—was a company town.
It was run by and for the Dutch company.
Dutch Residues in New York
1664 England seized New Netherland from the Dutch.
Charles II granted his brother, the Duke of York, the former New Amsterdam area.
New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
England received a splendid harbor and the stately Hudson River.
Dutch influence:
Named places
Left their imprint of the gambrel-roofed architecture
Influenced social customs and folkways
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
Quakers, English dissenters, known as the Religious Society of Friends:
refused to support the established Church of England taxes;
built simple meeting houses;
congregated without a paid clergy;
They took no oaths;
They were people of deep conviction:
They abhorred strife, warfare and refused military service.
Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania (cont.)
1660 William Penn was attracted to the Quaker faith, suffering much persecution.
Penn’s thoughts turned to the New World, where he wanted to experiment with
liberal ideas in government and also to make money.
1681 he secured land from the King.
The king called the land Pennsylvania (“Penn’s Woodland”).
Pennsylvania was the best advertised colony.
His liberal land policy attracted a heavy inflow of immigrants.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
1681 Penn launched his colony
“Squatters” were Dutch, Swedish, English, and Welsh
Philadelphia (“brotherly love”) was carefully planned
He bought land from the Indians and Chief Tammany
He treated the Indians fairly
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Pennsylvania seemed, for a brief period, the land of amicable Indian-white relations.
Quaker tolerance proved the undoing of Quaker Indian policy.
There was no tax supported state church.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
“Blue laws” prohibited “ungodly revelers,” stage plays, playing cards, dice, games,
and excessive hilarity.
By 1700 colony surpassed all other colonies but Virginia and Massachusetts in
population and wealth.
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
1664 New Jersey was started by two noble proprietors having received land from
the Duke of York.
1674 the Quakers bought West New Jersey.
Later East New Jersey was acquired.
1703 Delaware was granted its assembly.
Quakers Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors (cont.)
Noted features of the colony:
A. No provision for a military defense;
B. No restrictions on immigration;
C. Quakers developed a strong dislike of slavery;
D. Made some progress toward social reform;
E. Contained rich ethnic groups;
F. Afforded economic opportunity, civil liberty, and religious freedom
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
The middle colonies—New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania common
features:
The soil was fertile and the expanse was broad;
Became known as the “bread colonies”;
Rivers played a vital role—the Susquehanna, the Delaware, and the Hudson fur
trade;
Industry flourished in the middle colonies;
Stimulated commerce and the growth of seaports—New York and Philadelphia
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
The middle colonies were midway between New England and the southern plantations:
Landholding intermediate in size;
Local government was between personalized town meetings and diffused county
government of the south;
Fewer than in New England, more than the South.
The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies (cont.)
Distinctions of their own:
More ethnic population;
An unusual degree of religious toleration and democratic control;
Desirable land was easier to acquire;
Considerable amount of economic and social democracy;
Finally, Britain continued its hands-off policies.
Timeline Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Tobacco Economy
Chesapeake planters recruited some 100,000 indentured servants to the region by 1700.
These “white slaves” represented more than three-quarters of all European
immigrants.
Indentured servants led a hard life
They looked forward to becoming free and acquiring land
Even after freedom they had to hire themselves for pitifully low wages.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Many impoverished freedmen were frustrated with broken hopes and failure to find single women to marry
Virginia’s Governor William Berkeley.
The freed indentured servants could not make enough money to pay high taxes or
buy land.
They want to explore the Native American land but a treaty prohibited it
Nathaniel Bacon put together a group and started attacking Indian tribes
Bacon’s Rebellion
Berkeley’s friendly policies toward the Indians caused him to refuse to retaliate against a series of brutal Indian attacks.
Bacon’s Rebellion ended when he died of disease.
House of Burgess
Cut taxes
Opened up Native American land
Slave Trade
Bacon’s Rebellion help fuel the move from Indentured Servants to African slaves
What were the advantages?
Advantages
Less discontent because they would not be freed
Cheaper than indentured servants
More plentiful
Slave Trade
Started with criminals and war captives
As demand increased African raiders moved inland looking for slaves
Once captured they were marched to the coast
Inspected
Branded
Put in prison
Slave Trade
Middle Passage
The transportation from Africa to the New World
1680s mass expansion of slavery in colonies:
7 million came to the New World in three centuries
400,000 to North America
Many died because of
Suffocation
Disease
violence
Picture
Map Slave Trade
Picture Middle Passage
Slave Trade
Olaudah Equiano
A slave who learned to read and write and record his experiences in his
autobiography
Slave Trade
Early Abolitionist
The earliest were the Quakers (1688) under the leadership of two men.
Samuel Sewall
Judge that stated “all Men, as they are the sons of Adam”
John Woolman
Urged Quakers to free their slaves
Slave Trade
Rebellion
Harsh rules did not prevent rebellion
Stono, South Carolina was site of one of the largest uprising
30 white Colonists were killed before militia contained it. Those slaves that survived were tortured to great extremes.
Led to new laws
Slave Trade
Slave Codes
Sets of laws passed to prevent escape and discourage revolt
Forbade slaves to meet together
To leave the plantations
Learn to read and write
Own weapons
A master who killed a slave while correcting him could not be charged with
murder
Southern Society
As slavery spread, the gaps in the South’s social structure widened:
A defined hierarchy of wealth and status
At the top were the powerful great planters
Most of these leaders were a hard-working, business-like lot, laboring long hours.
Beneath the planters were the small farmers, the largest social group.
Still lower were the landless whites.
Beneath them were the former indenturers.
Southern Society
Few cities sprouted in the colonial South; thus an urban professional class, lawyers
and financiers, were slow to emerge.
Southern life revolved around the great plantations.
Waterways were the principle means of transportation.
Roads were very wretched.
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Unit 2
1607-1754
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
Joint-stock company
Parliamentary control of money
Personal financing risky - Raleigh lost more than $100,000
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
London Company formed - divided into Plymouth and Virginia Companies
12 pounds investment - $62 in gold per share
December 1606 - Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery leave England
May 14, 1607 - 120 land - 104 settle - Indian attack on 5-26-1607
only 38 left alive after the first six months - death rates of 1/2 to 1/3 were not
uncommon in colonizing - settled in a low swampy area
II.
Early Map
Map Jamestown
Map Jamestown
Picture Jamestown
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
John Smith provide the early leadership and discipline necessary to make the colony
successful
basic problem was the expectation of easy gold
no work no eat policy
skillful Indian relations
periodically resupplied but continued to have problems
no private property
harsh military discipline - employees of the company marched to and from the
fields twice a day to the beat of a drum
lack of a cash crop
Jamestown - first permanent English settlement - 1607
“starving time” 1609-1610
Smith had left the colony
reduced to eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, horsehide, and the
corpses of dead men
1610 - relief expedition under Gates finds the men so pitiful they load up to go
back to England
Baron De La Warre (Robert West) intercepts them and forces them back to work -
has ample supplies and 300 men
De La Warr
1610 – De La Warr Became governor of Jamestown
He arrives with orders from the VA Company that amount to a declaration of war
against the Indians
De La Warr led troops on vicious campaigns against the Irish
He raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched
cornfields
1614 – Peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War
1622 – Indians struck back killing 347 settlers. The VA Company issues new orders of war against the Indians
1644 – Indians begin the Second Anglo-Powhatan War, but are defeated again
1646 – Peace treaty banished the Chesapeake Indians from white areas of
settlement
1685 – By this time, the English considered the Powhatan peoples extinct
Powhatans’ End
Their end was caused by the three Ds:
Disease – Native peoples were extremely susceptible to European illnesses
(smallpox and measles)
Disorganization
Disposability – The Indians provided no economic function for the VA colonists.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Cash crop - John Rolfe successfully cross breeds native and West Indian tobacco
Jamestown goes tobacco mad
grown on sidewalk and between grave markers
stories of fantastic fortunes spur its development
used as a medium of exchange
James I disapproved of smoking - "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose,
harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Introduction of private property (1617-1618) –
Effect –
Introduction of the headright system
for each person brought to America one got 50 acres of land free
led to abuses - sea captains kidnapping children, drunks, etc.
primary purpose was not land distribution but an adequate supply of labor -
U.S.
colonial history is rift with accounts of chronic labor shortages
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
Political freedom
charters granted English citizens all the rights of Englishmen - English common
law applied in the colonies as well (1624 or earlier)
House of Burgesses - 1619 - first representative assembly in U.S.
What brought the turnaround necessary to make it a permanent settlement?
1619 - the company sought to recruit “fair and uncorrupt maidens”
its purpose was to provide a stable environment
150 pounds of tobacco purchased a wife - gave the right to build a house and no longer live in barracks
Slavery
1619 – Sketchy records show that 20 Africans were sold as either slaves or servants,
thus planting the seeds of the North American slave system
Indentured servants were also used – people who bound themselves to work for a
number of years to pay their passage to the New World
1700 – Blacks made up 14% of the colony’s population
Maryland
Maryland
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Was an advisor, friend of the king, and a recent convert to Catholicism
He received the charter of Maryland. He wanted to:
Reap financial profits
Create a refuge for his fellow Catholics (Protestant England was still
persecuting Catholics)
2nd Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert)
When George Calvert died before the charter was completed, Maryland went to
Cecilius
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
Was originally settled as a haven for Catholics who faced persecution in England
This was not profitable and Calvert opened the land to Protestants
Protestants out number Catholics quickly which lead to the Toleration Act in 1649
Guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians
Population
Most white colonist that came to Chesapeake came as indentured servants
To meet the need people started kidnapping kids from London and sending them as
servants
30,000 to 50,000 convicts were also sent here to work
75% of servants were males between 15 and 24
Death
High death rate plagued this area because of disease.
55% of those born in Chesapeake died before 20 in the 1600’s
Family structure was different here because of high death rate
Town Growth
Town growth was slow because of agricultural
This hurt the education of the children in this area
It was left to individual families
From 1600 to mid 1700’s only 25 percent of women could write their name
Colonizing the Carolinas
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
1655 England secured claims to several West Indian islands, including Jamaica.
Sugar formed the foundation of the West Indian economy.
Importing of enslaved Africans to work the sugar plantations.