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What caused early exploration? Religious Conflict The Protestant Reformation Expanding Trade Competition for trade with India, Africa, and China Improvement in Technology Led to creative and innovation
The biological encounter of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere Including: Disease, grains, crops, animals. Estimated population of Europe in 1492: about 60 million Estimated population of the Americas in 1492: million Estimated population of Europe in 1800: 150 million Estimated population of the Americas in 1800: 25 million (the vast majority of whom were of European or African descent)
Identify the states that made up the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies.
New England: natural resources included fish, whales, trees and furs. The natural resources were more important than crops because of poor, rocky soil and the short growing season.
New England had the Puritans They broken with the Church of England around 1630 Puritan Migration began Formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans who had broke with the Church of England. November 1620 landed in Plymouth Bay Massachusetts Why was this a problem? Wanted to go to Virginia Read Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop: Speech on the passage that spelled out utopian goals. Shame Church of England into real reform Rich and Poor served one another
Pastor who did not agree with Puritans Banished and went to Narragansett Bay purchased land from Indians and created what we know today as Rhode Island.
Was banished by Puritans for arguing against predestination Moved of Rhode Island
A. Public Education B. Predestination C. Separation of Church and State D. Religious Freedom
The Middle Colonies were part agriculture, part industrial. Wheat and other grains grew on farms in PA & NY. Factories in Maryland produced iron, & factories in Pennsylvania produced paper and textiles. Trade with England was plentiful in these colonies as well.
Most ethnically diverse No single religion Puritans, Quakers, Anglicans, Catholics, and Jews. Proprietary Charters: Which means? Ownership to individuals by order of the king. Lord Baltimore wanted haven for Catholics in Maryland
Act of Toleration: Lord Baltimore The f______ colonial statute granting r_______ freedom to all Christians. Also called for the d______ of anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus.
William Penn Promised Religious Tolerance in PA All taxpayers and landholders had right to vote In 1703 gave the lower three counties the right to form their own assembly. What was their name?
The climate of the Southern Colonies was the warmest climate of the three colonial regions. Positive: Not worried much about surviving cold winters. Negative: the warm, moist climate carried diseases that killed the colonists. The Southern Colonies were almost entirely agricultural. The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland.
British colonized the area in the hopes of getting raw materials Such as British hoped for Trade Markets English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants, Transported Criminals, and Slaves.
First successful E_____ colony Begun under the Virginia Company of London The company guaranteed settlers same rights as those of Englishmen. 1619 Organized 1 st R_______ government: The House of Burgesses. Economic success was due to tobacco Corporate Charter? Joint Stock Company
Restoration Colonies 1630’s the English had established six colonies Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. After the Stuart Restoration in England following the English Civil War The Carolinas were founded
Georgia The l_____ English colony Was to protect South Carolina A place for debtors from E______
New York Settled by the Dutch In 1664 Duke of York dispatched a force that easily took control of the colony
Severe Labor Shortages in the New World How was this problem addressed? Indentured Servants: work for someone for a specified period in exchange for passage, food, shelter Slavery: the first Africans arrived in 1619 aboard a Dutch slave ship