the new england colonies pg. 50-54. how did the geography of the new england colonies impact the...
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The New England Colonies
pg. 50-54
The New England Colonies
pg. 50-54
How did the geography of the New England Colonies impact the development of its economy? (Trade v. Farming)
Puritans and the Church of England• Residents of New England left England b/c they disagreed with the Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church (only legal church)– Known as Puritans (want to purify
church, still affiliated)– Separatists: leave to begin their
own church (PILGRIMS!)– Thought it was too similar to
Catholic Church– Didn’t like hierarchy
Puritans arrive in Massachussetts: New England colony (Plymouth, Boston, Salem)
1. Motives = to escape religious persecutiona. Pilgrims = Puritan separatists arrive on
Mayflower 1620 and establish Plymouth colony
b. Governor John Winthrop: 1630 more Puritans come to make their colony, “A city upon the hill”… inspiration and example to the world
2. political developmenta. Mayflower Compact:
signers promised to form a gov and respect its laws
b. Est. town meetings to make laws (democracy!)
i. 1631, all male church members (had conversion experience of journey to the colony) had the right to vote
ii. 1662, Half Way Covenant gives ½ church members (no conversion experience, children of original members) right to vote
iii. 1691, all male landowners gain right to vote
3. Social development a. Puritans: want to purify Anglican Church
i. Required all colonists to attend church (very strict, no tolerance for diversity)
b. Roger Williams: Founder of Rhode Island colony
i. Banished for speaking out against Church regulation
ii. Est universal male suffrage (right to vote) and religious freedom in RI
TURN TO PG. 52
c. Salem Witch Trials • Blame witches for native
attacks, disease, etc.• Target: women, non-puritans,
poor• “afflicted child” went into
convulsions, ran around, hid under furniture
• Around 20 put to death• IMPORTANCE = those
accused were showing a loss of lose religious passion…making $ and freedoms become priority
• (sex, drugs, & rock n’ roll!)
http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-salem-witch-trials
Conflict with Natives in New England
• Pequot War:
• Praying Towns:
Let’s read about King Phillip’s War
Other side of Bacon reading…
The Middle Colonies
pg. 55-59
• Hudson River (navigation), many seaports• Soil suitable for farming, mild climate• Big food producing region that included corn and wheat and
livestock including beef and pork. Other industries included the production of iron ore, lumber, textiles, and furs, which they exported to England
How did the geography of the Middle Colonies impact the development of its economy? (Trade v. Farming)
The Middle Colonies• The Dutch settled New
Amsterdam in1625• Religious tolerance and
diverse (didn’t pressure natives to convert) European groups– Mainly focused on
mercantilism
• 1644 The English take over the colony ($$$), names changed to New York
Pennsylvania pg. 58
• Founded by William Penn 1680– Quaker: a radical form of
Protestantism that believed in equality between men and women, pacifists, and tolerated other faiths
– Philadelphia: City of Brotherly love (cause everybody got along!)
– Got along with natives
7. What religious groups settled in New England? Where did they settle? What were their reasons for settlement?
12. What was the Half-way Covenant? Why was it necessary?
14. Why did Massachusetts lose its charter? How does this change the relationship between the colonies and England?
Becomes a royal colony because of its reluctance to recognize the British crown’s authority >>> this limits the freedoms of the colonists
15. What country settled in New York first? How did New Amsterdam become New York?
16. Who settled Pennsylvania? Why? How did the settlers of Pennsylvania treat Native Indians?
17. Why were the Middle Colonies more diverse than either
the Southern or New England colonies? (pg. 59!!!!!)
#MCM who are these guys?
#kingphillip
#metacomet #powhatan #NathanielBacon
• What is mercantilism?
• What are the benefits of mercantilism?
• Who benefits of mercantilism?
• What is the negative impact of mercantilism?
The Triangle Trade Draw this chart and fill in as we discuss
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• How did trans-Atlantic trade develop?
• What raw materials were shipped from North America to Europe?
• What about Europe to America?
• Roots of Slavery (How did it begin?)• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml• Timeline of Slavery• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9generic3.shtml• The Journey• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter5.shtml
Middle Passage
1-3 month journey
Separated from family and villages
Did not share a language
Branded with hot irons
Jammed into a dark and crowded ship hold (3feet 3 inches high)
Urine, fesses, birth, and death were
everywhere
10% of captures did not survive
Slaves in the Northern colonies
Small minorityWhy?
Farmhands, dockworkers, sailors, house servants
Some success stories – Phillis Wheatley -Slave from west Africa
-Worked for a Boston tailor, wrote a book of poems that her owner helped to get published
-And was freed
Slaves in the southern colonies
Sometimes outnumberedWhite settlers
Ability to develop culture:• separated from whites
•Able to practice African traditions And blend it with their new
Found Christianity •Created music with banjos,
Rattles and drums
Raised labor intensive crops: Tobacco, rice, Indigo, sugar
30. Give two examples of African-American culture in the
colonies.• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experienc
e/education/history.html
• Started = indentured servants, being freed after a few years of service
• Later = permanently enslaved Africans – due to Bacon’s Rebellion
Africans in the colonies
• “I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, death, in to relieve me…”
- Olaudah Equiano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY
Crash Course “The Atlantic Slave Trade”
27. Describe conditions on ships for enslaved Africans being shipped to North America.
28. How did labor practices change from early settlement in the 1600s to later colonies in the 1700s?
29. How did slavery in the New England and Middle colonies differ from slavery in the Southern colonies?
30. Give two examples of African-American culture in the colonies.