Colonization 17th century
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Colonization 17th CenturyDr. Romero
• I. Richard Hakluyt’s Vision– New world could serve– Early attempts failed– Motivation
• Economics- land, status, world• Political – Stuarts v. Parliament• Religious• Personal
– Types of Colonies• Royal Colony • Joint Stock Company• Proprietary Colony
• II. Caribbean- West Indies– Model
• Plantation Society -• Labor-
– Slaves – Barbados Slave Code 1661– Indentured Servants
• Quality of Life – – Decadent– Absenteeism
• III. Southern Colonies– Chesapeake
• Jamestown, Virginia, 1607• Problems• Captain John Smith• Starving Time 1609-1610
– Economy• Rolfe & Tobacco• Sandys & Headright• House of Burgesses 1619
– Plantation Society• Land• Labor Force
– Indentured Servants– Slavery
• Weaknesses– Thinly Spread– I crop
– Maryland – Proprietary• Lord Baltimore• Headright system
– Quitrent
• Toleration Act 1648• Plantation Society
– Riverfront plantations– No Towns– Labor
» Indentured Servants» Slavery
– Weaknesses» Thinly spread» I crop
– Restoration Colonies• Land Grant 1663 – Proprietary• North Carolina – Tar • South Carolina – Rice
– Black Majority– Stono Rebellion
– Georgia – Proprietary• Last Colony 1732• Protective Zone• Prohibitions
Ex-slaves sitting in front of a cabin in 1862
The massacre during Nat Turner's Rebellion
• IV. New England– Puritans – Calvinists, Reform– Separtist – Calvinists, disillusioned– Congregationalists – Autonomous– Plymouth 1620– Massachusetts 1629– Society
• Town• Church• Family
– Patriarchal– Children
– Expansion• Dissenters
– Roger Williams – R.I. – Anne Hutchinson
• Other Colonies– Connecticut 1662– New Hampshire 1677
• Decline of Influence• Halfway Covenant
• V. Middle Colonies– Dutch Beginnings 1609– New Netherlands captured 1664
• N.Y. & N.J.
• Quaker Influence– Quaker Origins – Fox 1640s
– Beliefs
– Pennsylvania 1681 – Proprietary• William Penn
– Purchased Delaware 1682
• Success• Problems
• VI. 17th Century Crises– Virginia – Bacon’s Rebellion 1676– Salem Witch Trials 1691– Reaction to Glorious Revolution
• Massachusetts – Andros deposed• New York – Leisler• Maryland - Coode