1. COLONIAL AMERICA Unit IB AP U.S. History Borrowed from J. Burkowski

2. England ► Defeat of Spanish Armada in 1588 makes England a superior naval power ► Population increases ► Joint-stock companies develop ► Religious conflicts divide the nation ► Weak monarchs, civil wars, and revolutions

3. English Colonies ► Charters ► Corporate Colony  Granted a charter to stockholders (Joint-Stock Company)  Ex. Virginia ► Proprietary Colony  Granted a charter to individual or group  Ex. Maryland, Pennsylvania ► Royal Colony  Under direct control of the monarch  Ex. New Hampshire  Eventually, 8 of the 13 colonies became royal colonies, including Virginia and Massachusetts

4. The First English Colonies ► First Attempt: Roanoke in 1585 ► First Permanent: Jamestown, Virginia in 1607  John Smith – “he that will not work shall not eat”  John Rolfe - tobacco

5. Who is this?

6. Oh yeah…Pocahontas

7. Disney’s John Smith

8. Hollywood’s John Smith

9. This is John Smith.

10. Pilgrims ► Separatists to Holland then head for Virginia ► Mayflower takes Separatists and others to Jamestown but weather complicates matters ► Settlers decide to remain and establish Plymouth (1620)

12. The Mayflower (II)

13. Look, a big rock.

14. Wampanoag Dwelling

15. Plymouth Colony

16. Thirteen Colonies

17. New England ► Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritans (1630)  John Winthrop  “city upon a hill” ► Rhode Island  Providence (1636) ► Roger Williams  Portsmouth (1638) ► Anne Hutchinson ► Connecticut  Hartford (1637) ► Thomas Hooker  New Haven (1638) ► New Hampshire (1679)

18. New England and Religion ► Puritanical lifestyle in Massachusetts ► Religious toleration and dissent Rhode Island  Roger Williams and “wall of separation”  Anne Hutchinson and Antinomianism ► Halfway Covenant (1662)  Attempt to increase members ► Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)  185 accused ► 141 women; 44 men  19 executed ► 14 women; 5 men

19. New England Politics ► Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)  First written constitution in America ► Relations with Natives  New England Confederation (1643-1684) ► Defense alliance among Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven ► King Philip’s (Metacom) War (1675-1676)  New England Confederation defeats Wampanoag alliance

20. Middle Colonies ► Development  New York ► New Amsterdam transferred to Duke of York in 1664  New Jersey (1702)  Pennsylvania settled by Quakers  Delaware (1702) ► Economics  Develop wheat and corn farms ► “Bread basket” of the colonies  Eventually into manufacturing and trade

21. Pennsylvania ► William Penn (1681) ► Religious Society of Friends aka Quakers ► Holy Experiment  Religious refuge  Liberal political ideals  Economic success  Frame of Government and Charter of Liberties

22. Southern Colonies ► Maryland (1634)  Lord Baltimore  Act of Toleration (1649) ► Virginia (1607) ► Carolinas (1663)  North Carolina (1729) ► Tobacco  South Carolina (1729) ► Rice and indigo ► Georgia (1732)  James Oglethorpe

23. Virginia ► Jamestown (1607) ► House of Burgesses in 1619  First legislative assembly in the colonies ► Becomes royal colony in 1624 ► Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)  Inequities between large landowners and western farmers  Nathanial Bacon vs. William Berkeley ► Headright System  50 acres to each paying immigrant or plantation owner who paid for immigrant "Here shoot me before God, fair mark shoot. ” Governor William Berkeley in response to Nathanial Bacon ’ s threat for demands.

24. Georgia ► James Oglethorpe establishes in 1732  Social experiment ► Defensive buffer to Spanish Florida ► Debtors colony

25. Colonial Religion ► Diverse among colonies regarding strict adherence and religious toleration ► Protestant dominant  Anglican Church  Congregationalist  Presbyterian  Lutheran  Catholic ► The (First) Great Awakening (1730s-1740s)  Jonathan Edwards ► “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”  George Whitefield  Evangelism  Baptists and Methodists

26. Colonial Religion

27. Colonial Politics ► ► Limited Self-Government   Elected bicameral legislative assemblies   Governors   Local governments ► ► Voting   Limited to adult male educated and/or property owners ► ► Freedom of Expression   John Peter Zenger Case (1735)

28. Dominion of New England (1686-1689) ► ► Established by King James II to consolidate colonies ► ► Administrative union of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey ► ► Governor Edmund Andros ► ► Dissolution

29. Colonial Society And Colonial Culture ► ► American Social Structure   Wealthy landowners   Merchants   Small farmers   Craftspeople   Slaves   Regional differences ► ► Opportunity   Less dependent on heredity ► ► Gender Roles   Men ► ► Patriarchal society, landowners, workers   Women ► ► Submissive to men but respected, domestic responsibilities, limited to no political rights ► ► Becoming American   Pragmatism ► ► Dominance of English culture ► ► Folkways   Regional differences

30. Colonial Culture - The Arts ► ► Architecture   Early colonies centered around a church   Urban structures typical of English structures   Frontier log cabins ► ► Literature   Newspapers   Religious sermons, political essays, non-fiction books   Poor Richard’s Almanac - Benjamin Franklin

31. Colonial Culture - Education ► ► Limited to wealthy males; females learned domestic chores ► ► Higher Education   Most established for ministry/theological studies ► ► New England Colonies  Education by mothers  Towns with over 50 families required primary schools; over 100 families, required grammar schools ► ► Middle Colonies   Private and church education ► ► Southern Colonies   Limited education due to agricultural lifestyle

32. Settlement and Migration ► 250,000 in 1701 to 2.5 million in 1775 ► Europeans and Africans along with a high birth rate ► Reasons: religion; economics; political turmoil ► English, Germans (Pennsylvania Dutch), Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Swedish  OLD IMMIGRANTS ► Africans forced to America; suffered discrimination and slave labor

33. Colonial Slavery ► Indentured servitude ► Why Slaves?  Increased wages in England  Labor shortages lead to importing slaves  Cheap labor  Dependable work force ► Slave Rebellions and Reactions  Stono Rebellion/Cato Rebellion (1739)  New York “Conspiracy” (1741)  Slave laws

34. Slave Demographics

35. Colonial Economics ► Mercantilism  Colonies for the “Mother Country” ► Acts of Navigation  Trade on English ships  Imports pass English ports  Exports to England ► Molasses Act (1733) ► Triangular Trade  Middle Passage

36. Colonial Economics ► Money  Commodity money (gold/silver)  Fiat money (paper currency) ► Transportation  Rivers and coasts  Horse and carriage  Taverns and postal services ► New England  Shipbuilding and manufacturing  Lumber  Fishing and whaling  Merchants/Trade ► Middle Colonies  Wheat and corn  Lumber  Manufacturing  Merchants/Trade ► Southern Colonies  Plantation systems ► Tobacco, rice, indigo  Forced labor ► Indentured servants and slaves

37. PUROPOSEDATEFOUNDERMAJOR EXPORT VIRGINIAcommercial1607Virginia Company John Smith Tobacco PLYMOUTH/ MASSACHUSETTS Religious refuge/ commercial 1620/ 1628 William Bradford/ Massachusetts Bay Company John Winthrop Grain, timber NEW YORKcommercial1613 (1664)Peter Stuveysant (Duke of York) Furs, grain NEW HAMPSHIREcommercial1623John MasonTimber, naval stores RHODE ISLANDReligious refuge1636Roger WilliamsGrain CONNECTICUTexpansion1635Thomas HookerGrain PENNSYLVANIAReligious refuge1681William Penn - Quakers Grain DELAWAREcommercial1638 (1681)Peter Minuit/ William Penn Grain MARYLANDReligious refuge1634Lord Baltimore - Catholics Tobacco NORTH CAROLINAcommercial1663Anthony CooperTobacco, timber, naval stores SOUTH CAROLINAcommercial1663Anthony CooperRice, indigo, naval stores GEORGIABuffer, experiment1733James OglethorpeRice, timber, naval stores () - Becomes an English colony