settling the american colonies
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Settling the American Colonies. Chapters 2 & 3. Jamestown - 1607. Primogeniture Joint-Stock Companies… Virginia Company of London Jamestown site…. John Smith. Kidnapped… “He who does not work, does not eat” “Starving Time”. Powhatan. Father of Pocahontas… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Settling the American ColoniesChapters 2 & 3Jamestown - 1607PrimogenitureJoint-Stock CompaniesVirginia Company of LondonJamestown site
John SmithKidnappedHe who does not work, does not eatStarving Time
PowhatanFather of PocahontasHis Indian Confederacy falls to the Three DsDiseaseDisorganizationDisposability
John Rolfe Tobacco 1612
1619 - Irony20 Africans sold as slaves in JamestownLondon Company authorizes the House of Burgesses 1st Legislature in America
Barbados Slave Codes
MarylandLord BaltimoreRefuge for English Catholics...Tobacco CultivationAct of TolerationGranted toleration to all ChristiansJews & Atheists get death penalty
English Civil WarOliver Cromwell
RestorationCharles IIEmpire Building Resumes
The CarolinasSouth Carolina Rice Cultivation & Plantation Economy similar to the West IndiesNorth Carolina outcast small farmers who didnt like aristocratic VA or SC
GeorgiaJames OglethorpeServe as a buffer to Spanish in FLHaven for imprisoned debtorsReligious Toleration (except Catholics)John Wesley
Plantation Colonies Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia & the West IndiesStaple CropsSugarTobaccoRice SlaveryWestward MovementGreater Religious Tolerance
Martin LutherWittenberg, Germany151795 ThesesIgnites the Protestant Reformation
John CalvinCalvinism dominant theology of PuritansConversion intensely personalPredestination God had determined who was going to heaven***Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England***
Separatists Wanted to Separate from the Anglican Church (Pilgrims)
James I harassed the SeparatistsThey flee to HollandBoard the Mayflower bound for JamestownArrive in Plymouth Bay
Mayflower Compact
Wampanoags Befriend the PilgrimsSquanto
Thanksgiving - 1621
William BradfordChosen governor of Plymouth Colony 30 timesEconomy based on fish, fur, & lumber
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Puritan Migration 1630s
John WinthropGovernor of Mass. Bay Colony 19 yearsA City Upon A HillAll freemen (churchgoing adult males) could voteTown Meetings majority voteBible Commonwealth
Challenges to Puritan AuthorityQuakers & BaptistsFinesFloggingsBanishmentDeath Penalty
Anne HutchinsonAntinomianism truly saved shouldnt bother to obey Gods or mans lawsBanished from Mass. Bay Colony
Roger WilliamsExtreme separatist, challenged authority of Mass. BayBanished and formed Rhode IslandFreedom of ReligionIndividualistic & IndependentDevout Puritans called it the sewer
ConnecticutRev. Thomas HookerFundamental Orders of Connecticut- 16391st written constitution in AmericaLegislature elected by popular vote governor chosen by legislature
Pequot War
King Phillips War
Dominion of New EnglandSir Edmund AndrosGoaded colonists to the verge of revolt, they begin smuggling goodsGlorious RevolutionBloodless revolution removes James II and installs William III and MaryDominion of New England collapsesYears of salutary neglect begin
New NetherlandsHenry Hudson - 1609.New Amsterdam foundedWall StreetAbsorbed New Sweden.
Peter StuyvesantSurrenders New Netherlands.Becomes New York...Dutch LegacyEaster EggsSanta ClauseWafflesBowling, sleighing, skating, golf Harlem, Brooklyn, etc.
William Penn - Pennsylvania
Quakers- Religious Society of FriendsQuaked .Refused to Pay taxesTake oathsServe in the military
Philadelphia the city of brotherly lovePenn tolerant of all religions Treated Indians wellSoon Quakers were outnumbered
Middle ColoniesGood Soil - the bread coloniesIntermediate sized landholdingsMore ethnically mixed populationUnusual degree of religious toleration and democracy