Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Restoration Colonies Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
English Restoration
England in Turmoil Charles I Absolute Monarch Civil War Crisis Charles I Absolute Monarch Anglican, but married Catholic princess Deposed and executed 1649 Oliver Cromwell Military Dictatorship Puritan Died 1658 Charles II Limited Monarch Anglican “Restored” to throne in 1660
Restoration Restoration Colonies=Later Colonies (after Virginia & New England)
Overview
More Like Later America Than Other Regions! Economic diversity. Large cities more cosmopolitan culture. Some slavery [6%-12% of the population]. Ethnic and religious diversity. Religious toleration. “Bread Colonies.”
Settling the Middle [or “Restoration”] Colonies GOALS profit and individual betterment.
Ethnic Groups
New York
New Netherlands & New Sweden Founded in the 1660s by: Friends of British King Charles II. Land speculators. Middle class farmers & craftsmen.
New York Manors & Land Grants Patroonships
New York Harbor, 1639
New Amsterdam
Governor of New Amsterdam Peter Stuyvesant Governor of New Amsterdam
Anglo-Dutch Wars “New York”
Pennsylvania
William Penn The “Holy Experiment”
Royal Land Grant to Penn
Penn & Native Americans
Penn’s Treaty with the Native Americans
Urban Population Growth 1650 - 1775
New York
Settling the Lower South 1660s – 1730s The Carolinas & Georgia. Planters & yeomen farmers from VA or the Sugar Islands. Debtors & other petty criminals.
The only southern port city. Port of Charles Town, SC The only southern port city.
Crops of the Carolinas Rice Indigo
Rice & Indigo Exports from SC & GA: 1698-1775
Founder of Georgia James Oglethorpe A “buffer zone” between Britain’s North American colonies & Spanish Florida. James Oglethorpe
The Trustees of Georgia Painted by William Verelst, 1734
Grill pattern of settlement. 1733 Savannah Grill pattern of settlement.
Social Crisis in the Colonies
Iroquois Lands & European Trade Centers
King Philip’s War, 1675 – 1676)
Governor William Berkeley Bacon’s Rebellion (1676 - 1677) Nathaniel Bacon Governor William Berkeley
18c Southern Colonies
Stono Rebellion 1739