Agricultural Revolution/Transition -10,000 b.c. Magna Carta - 1215 The Renaissance - 1300s Printing Press - 1440 Columbus - 1492 Protestant Reformation – 1517 The Enlightenment – 1600s
American Indian diversity
Virginia/Jamestown 1607 Joint Stock Company Gold Escape London Adventure
High Mortality Rates The “Starving Time”: 1607: 104 colonists 1608: 38 survivors 1609: 300 more immigrants 1610: 60 survivors 1610 – 1624: 10,000 immigrants 1624 population: 1,200 Adult life expectancy: 40 years Death of children before age 5: 80%
Powhatan
“If you tickle the soil with a hoe, it will laugh with a harvest.” Tobacco “If you tickle the soil with a hoe, it will laugh with a harvest.”
House of Burgesses, 1619 “Salutary Neglect”
The Settlement of New England
Separatists vs. Puritans
The Mayflower Compact 1620
Colonizing New England
The MA Bay Colony John Winthrop ‘City Upon a Hill’
Characteristics of New England Settlements Low mortality/high life expectancy Many extended families. Average 6 children per family. “In the South the soil was fertile, in the North the women were.” Strict religious beliefs Puritanism
Literacy
New England Economy Puritan Work Ethic Fish and ships
The Bloody Tenant of Persecution… by Roger Williams [1644]
The Bloody Tenant of Persecution… by Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson
New England Colonies, 1650
Population of the New England Colonies
Indentured Servitude and Slavery Jamestown: Indentured Servitude and Slavery Headright System: 50 acres of land for each person brought to the colony Indenture Contract: 7-10 years. Promised “freedom dues” [land, money] Only 1 in 10 outlived their indentured contracts. Turning toward slavery Servants became more expensive as they outlived their contracts and the economy improved in England Freed servants competed for land.
Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676
17c Population in the Chesapeake
MD Toleration Act, 1649
18c Southern Colonies
Rice & Indigo Exports from SC & GA: 1698-1775
New Netherlands & New Sweden
New Netherland becomes New York, 1664
Pennsylvania, 1681 Quakers rejected social hierarchy Pacifist “City of Brotherly Love” Bread basket colony William Penn
Urban Population Growth 1650 - 1775
Ethnic Groups
New England: The First Great Awakening
Results of the French and Indian War England has massive war debt. England wants to avoid further conflicts. End of salutary neglect.