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9/15/2016 1 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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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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

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.