1. LIFE IN THE COLONIES

2. NEW ENGLAND COLONIES New England Colonies:
Industries: shipbuilding, whaling, fishing
Massachusetts was the first state to have a public school system.
Massachusetts School Law of established the first public school system in the colonies
Town meetings were the earliest form of democracy.
Puritan life was centered around religion.
Subsistence farming – growing only enough food to maintain your family.
A craft worker skilled in a certain area is called an artisan.
1st Colleges taught only white men.
1st College was Harvard (Massachusetts).
2nd College was College of William and Mary (VA).

3. CONTROLS OF COLONIAL TRADE
1650-Parliament passed laws to regulate colonial trade.
Mercantilism – system set up for the sole purpose of making money for the mother country
Navigation Acts were passed to control colonial trade.
Colonists must use British built ships for all their trade.
Certain colonial products (tobacco, cotton, and indigo) could only be sold in England.

4. GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
English Parliament gave the throne to James’ daughter, Mary and her husband, William
This peaceful change became known as the Glorious Revolution.
A bill of rights (a document listing essential freedoms guaranteed to all citizens) put limits on
the king and queen’s power.
 William and Mary were the king and queen who passed the bill of rights and restored elected assemblies.

5. Triangular trade route
Traded rum to West Africa in exchange for slaves and this route was called the Middle Passage.

6. New England
New England
England
(WI to NE – Molasses; (NE to E – tobacco, rice, furs, indigo;
NE to WA – rum, iron, tools; E to WI – cloth & manufactured goods;
WA to WI – enslaved persons, gold, & pepper) WI to NE – goods)
West Africa
West Indies
West Indies
England
(WI to E- molasses, sugar, and fruit;
E to WA – iron, cloth, and weapons;
WA to WI – enslaved persons)
West Indies
West Africa
England

7. John Peter Zenger
Tried for libel (act of publishing harmful statements) because his newspaper openly opposed Governor William Cosby.
Andrew Hamilton defended Zenger stating that he should be found not guilty since his statements were true.
Found not guilty—1st case in America to protect the freedom of the press.

8. Middle Colonies
Immigrants- people who move from one place but are still ruled by that same country
Children in the Middles colonies were taught by tutors in private schools.
Frontier life was wild and untamed.
Conestoga wagon
Covered top
Large and sturdy
Long with a curved, boat-shaped body

9. Thompson
Southern colonies
Considered rural because they had few towns and only one large city.
Southern farmers wanted to live near the Tidewater.
First crop grown in Virginia was tobacco.
The institution of slavery became most popular among southern plantation owners.
Slaves in the United States developed a new culture that drew on the languages and customs of their West African homelands.
Why wouldn’t people want to live in Georgia?
Convicts settled there

10. Bacon’s Rebellion
1676- Nathaniel Bacon charged that the VA Governor William Berkeley
was not protecting the frontier from raids by Native Americans and was more interested in the profitable fur trade.
This was a civil war between the colonists and the governor’s troops.
This showed that colonists did not want to stay along the coastline.

11. Self-government Rights of Colonists Rights as English citizens
Right to fair trial by jury of equals
Right to be taxed by lawmakers elected by the people
Voters were 21 years old white male property owners.
Those who couldn’t vote were women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans.

12. Look up these vocabulary words
Barter
Exports
Imports
Patroon
Rural
Urban

13. vocabulary words
Barter - exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
Exports - send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
Imports - bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.
Patroon - a person given land and granted certain manorial privileges under the former Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
Rural - in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
Urban - in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.