Settling the American Colonies Chapters 2 & 3
Jamestown Primogeniture Joint-Stock Companies… Virginia Company of London Jamestown site…
John Smith Kidnapped… “He who does not work, does not eat” “Starving Time”
Powhatan Father of Pocahontas… His Indian Confederacy falls to the Three “D”s Disease Disorganization Disposability
John Rolfe – Tobacco 1612
Irony 20 Africans sold as slaves in Jamestown… London Company authorizes the House of Burgesses – 1 st Legislature in America
Barbados Slave Codes
Maryland Lord Baltimore Refuge for English Catholics... Tobacco Cultivation Act of Toleration Granted toleration to all Christians Jews & Atheists get death penalty
English Civil War Oliver Cromwell
Restoration Charles II Empire Building Resumes…
The Carolinas South Carolina – Rice Cultivation & Plantation Economy similar to the West Indies North Carolina – outcast small farmers who didn’t like aristocratic VA or SC
Georgia James Oglethorpe Serve as a buffer to Spanish in FL Haven for imprisoned debtors Religious Toleration (except Catholics) John Wesley…
“Plantation Colonies” – Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia & the West Indies Staple Crops Sugar Tobacco Rice Slavery Westward Movement Greater Religious Tolerance
Martin Luther Wittenberg, Germany 1517 “95 Theses” Ignites the Protestant Reformation
John Calvin Calvinism – dominant theology of Puritans Conversion – intensely personal Predestination – God had determined who was going to heaven… ***Puritans wanted to “purify” the Church of England***
Separatists – Wanted to Separate from the Anglican Church (Pilgrims)
James I harassed the Separatists… They flee to Holland… Board the Mayflower bound for Jamestown… Arrive in Plymouth Bay
Mayflower Compact
Wampanoags Befriend the Pilgrims Squanto
Thanksgiving
William Bradford Chosen governor of Plymouth Colony 30 times Economy based on fish, fur, & lumber
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Puritan Migration – 1630’s
John Winthrop Governor of Mass. Bay Colony – 19 years “A City Upon A Hill” All freemen (churchgoing adult males) could vote Town Meetings – majority vote “Bible Commonwealth”
Challenges to Puritan Authority Quakers & Baptists Fines Floggings Banishment Death Penalty
Anne Hutchinson Antinomianism – truly saved shouldn’t bother to obey God’s or man’s laws… Banished from Mass. Bay Colony…
Roger Williams Extreme separatist, challenged authority of Mass. Bay Banished and formed Rhode Island Freedom of Religion Individualistic & Independent Devout Puritans called it the “sewer”
Connecticut Rev. Thomas Hooker Fundamental Orders of Connecticut st written constitution in America Legislature elected by popular vote – governor chosen by legislature
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War
Dominion of New England Sir Edmund Andros Goaded colonists to the verge of revolt, they begin smuggling goods Glorious Revolution Bloodless revolution removes James II and installs William III and Mary Dominion of New England collapses Years of salutary neglect begin
New Netherlands Henry Hudson …. New Amsterdam founded… “Wall Street” Absorbed “New Sweden”….
Peter Stuyvesant Surrenders New Netherlands…. Becomes New York... Dutch Legacy Easter Eggs Santa Clause Waffles Bowling, sleighing, skating, golf Harlem, Brooklyn, etc.
William Penn - Pennsylvania
Quakers- Religious Society of Friends “Quaked” …. Refused to Pay taxes Take oaths Serve in the military
Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love Penn tolerant of all religions Treated Indians well Soon Quakers were outnumbered…
Middle Colonies Good Soil - “ the bread colonies” Intermediate sized landholdings… More ethnically mixed population Unusual degree of religious toleration and democracy