MAP 3.4 The Proprietary Colonies After the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, King Charles II of England created the new proprietary colonies of Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. New Hampshire was set off as a royal colony in 1680, and in 1704, the lower counties of Pennsylvania became the colony of Delaware.
Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
Chesapeake Colonies Maryland Virginia Still part of the Southern Colonies
s.colonies Southern Colonies 1.Indentured servants 2.slavery to work the large plantations 3.rice, tobacco and cotton 4.fertile soil 5.cities: Charleston, Savannah & Baltimore Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
Virginia Jamestown Joint Stock Company Virginia Company Captain John Smith John Rolfe Attract new settlers for Dutch and Swedish colonists Representative Govt House of Burgesses Royal Colony Maryland--1634Lord Baltimore Religious toleration— those who believed in Christ---allowed persecuted Catholics to settle in Maryland Representative govt Proprietary Colony North/South Carolina In 1663 John Locke 8 English nobles Setup a new colony based upon social classes…Failed and divided into 2 parts Representative govt Royal Colony Georgia—1732James Oglethorpe Provide a place for debtors could start a new life---Acted as a buffer against Spanish Florida Royal Colony Colony/Date Person Responsible Why Founded Governed/Owner
The London Company, 1606
This illustration is a detail of John Smith’s map of Virginia. It includes the names of many Indian villages, suggesting how densely settled was the Indian population of the coast of Chesapeake Bay. For the inset of Powhatan and his court in the upper left, the engraver borrowed images from John White’s drawings of the Indians of the Roanoke area. SOURCE:(a)Princeton University Library (b)Library of Congress.
Chief Powhatan
Powhatan Confederacy
John Rolfe
1622 Indian Uprisings
Captain John Smith
PocahontasPocahontas
Indentured Servitude
English Migration: Headright System
Early Colonial Tobacco — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.
Virginia House of Burgesses
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
Governor Berkeley’s “Fault Line”
Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676 Nathaniel Bacon Governor William Berkeley
Pilgrims? vs. Puritans?
The Mayflower
The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620
William Bradford
The Mason Children, by an unknown Boston artist, ca These Puritan children—David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason—are dressed in finery, an indication of the wealth and prominence of their family. The cane in young David’s hand indicates his position as the male heir, while the rose held by Abigail is a symbol of childhood innocence. SOURCE:Attributed to the Freake-Gibbs Painter,American,active Boston,MA.,ca.1670.The Mason Children:David,Joanna,and Abigail, 1670.Oil on canvas, in.The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,Gift of Mr.and Mrs.John D.Rockefeller 3rd,1979,
John Winthrop We shall be as a city on a hill..
The Pequot Wars:
A Pequot Village Destroyed, 1637
Indians and New Englanders skirmish during King Philip’s War in a detail from John Seller’s “A Mapp of New England,” published immediately after the war. SOURCE:John Seller Map of New England,1675.Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
The Delawares presented William Penn with this wampum belt after the Shackamaxon Treaty of In friendship, a Quaker in distinctive hat clasps the hand of an Indian. The diagonal stripes on either side of the figures convey information about the territorial terms of the agreement. Wampum belts like this one, made from strings of white and purple shells, were used to commemorate treaties throughout the colonial period and were the most widely accepted form of money in the northeastern colonies during the seventeenth century. SOURCE:Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Puritan “Rebels” Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson