Unit One Overview

Welcome Back

Chapter 2

England begins to take control of the seas by the 1500’s by those like Sir Walter Raleigh backed by Queen Elizabeth.England’s surplus population gives America its newest colonists along with those thirsty for adventure, religious freedom and financial opportunities.

KEY WORDS and PEOPLEJOINT STOCK COMPANIES

Virginia Company of London– Important for promising same rights as those at

home

TOBACCOLord De La Warr

Irish tactics against the Native Americans

PowhatanPocahontasJohn RolfeLord Baltimore: Maryland and CatholicsPlease See Chart on Page 37

Chapter 3

The Idea of Predestination

antinomianism

Puritans/Pilgrims

William Bradford: Gov. 30x

Mass. Bay Company: Non Separatists Puritans;

Boston Hub

John Winthrop Gov.

48,000 to W.Indies

KEY WORDS and PEOPLEMayflower CompactAnne Hutchinson: spoke out against the church and banishedRoger Williams: Religious tolerance in RIPequot War: 1637 Pequot tribe massacred by English after 40 years of peace with the N.A’s. King Philip: Metacom; the last serious Native American challenge to colonists in a war 1675-76. 52 towns attacked; 12 destroyed.William Penn: 1681 Secured land from King; Freedom of worship; developed strong dislike of slavery; progression towards social reform.

Breakdown of the Colonies

Northern (New England)New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Rocky landMillingManufacturingFishing Waterwheel powerEducation ImportantTown meetings

Middle

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Fertile soilBread Colonies (exports of grain)Rivers (fur trade)Lumbering/ shipbuilding SeaportsMidsized farmsPopulation ethnically mixed

Southern

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland

Large plantationsRice, tobacco, later, indigo and cotton

Slavery

Education not so important

County Government

Chapter 4Freedom Dues: Passage for several years of serviceHeadright System: paid passage of laborer and received right to acquire 50 acres of landBacon’s Rebellion: 1676 Nathanial Bacon

Forced outskirts and getting no protection from N.A.’s started a civil war in Virginia

William Berkeley: Governor in Virginia during Bacon’s RebellionMiddle Passage: Passage of slaves from Africa to America 20% would perishSlave Codes: Statutes and decrees that made Africans and their children property for lifeHalf-Way Covenant: Churches admit people to baptism but not “full communion”Salem Witch Trials: 1692

Chapter 5: The Great Awakening

From the late 1730s to the 1760s a great wave of religious enthusiasm swept over large parts of Britain's North American colonies. This outburst of religious fervor set the precedent for what became a recurrent and distinctive feature of American religious life: revivalism.