US AP HISTORY Bell Work: 1. What is a Utopic society? 2.What were some of the English motivations for settling in the New World? 3.How did the distance across the Atlantic help lead to a rather hands off approach to the growth of the new colonies?

A NEW HOME IN A NEW LAND ENGLISH COLONIZATION Overview: New World as a homeland Motives – Economic and Religious Free English Institutions

UTOPIA  Ideal Society  Sir Thomas Moore

 Sir Walter Raleigh  Croatoan ROANOKE ISLAND

JOINT STOCK COMPANY Pool of investors to stake claims in the new world utilizing stock Two joint stock companies formed and granted land grants by James I. Virginia Company- Southern Virginia (Jamestown) Plymouth Company- Northern Virginia (Mass. Bay Colony)

Captain John Smith Powhatan Indians (Tobacco) John Rolfe Pocahontas 1607 – JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA

JAMESTOWN CONTINUED Hardships- water, lack of discipline, “starving time” Edwin Sandys (sands)- private ownership and representative government House of Burgesses Headrights (trip paid- 50 acres) vs. indentured servitude… Leads to stratified society- poor vs. rich Defense issues- attacks by the Powhatans

An 1873 lithograph depicting the expedition against Nemasket led by Standish and guided by Hobbamock  Pilgrim Separatists  William Bradford  Mayflower Compact  1 st Written Constitution (Civil, Body, Politics)  Miles Standish (Military Support) PLYMOUTH

John Winthrope o Puritans – John Winthrop o “The Great Migration” (20,000 people within 10 years) 1630 – MASSACHUSETTS BAY

1636 – RHODE ISLAND Roger Williams: banished for religious beliefs-” land purchase from Indians, no punishment for religious beliefs Anne Hutchinson : Ideas reinterpreted and must leave to Rhode Island (Antinomianism) Personal relationship with God

CONNECTICUT  THOMAS HOOKER  FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT (CONSTITUTION)- BLUE PRINT FOR CIVIL GOVERNMENT (SOME MEN COULD VOTE)

Lord Baltimore & Catholics Protestants’ Toleration an is overwhelmed Oyster War (Virginia from Maryland shoreline to the north) MARYLAND

MARYLAND’S CATHOLIC COLONY Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)… friends with James I Openly Catholic- sponsors a Catholic colony- his son creates the colony but must appease Protestants to survive. English Civil War almost divides the colony but the “Act concerning Religion” pushed religious tolerance

1663 – NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA Anthony Cooper… with support from John Locke  Establishes an aristocracy and stratified society.  Nobles  Serfs – Slaves for Life  Divisions between the North and South will lead to dividing the colony.

 James, Duke of York  Seized from the Dutch  New Institutes  Navigation Act – NEW YORK

 William Penn (converted Quaker)  Quakers  “Asylum for all”  Proprietary Colony  Some challenge to Penn’s power- agrees to Charter of liberty  Freest Natural Place PENNSYLVANIA

James Oglethorpe Prison, debtors colony. Buffer zone against the Spanish GEORGIA

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