1. CHAPTER 3: THE EMERGENCE OF COLONIAL SOCIETIES, 1625-1700

2. AP FOCUS
Similarities and differences amongst the colonial regions, focusing on:
Geography
Politics
Economics
Religion
Social structure
Religious toleration and separation of church and state
Impact of Puritanism
Indentured servitude and chattel slavery
Native Americans perspective of colonial expansion
Colonial unrest

4. The Thirteen Colonies

5. New England Colonies mostly Puritan
success through both agriculture and commerce

6. Middle Colonies diverse in populations/ culture
main export: cereal crops and tobacco
labor intensive economy fueled by indentured servants & chattel slavery

7. Chesapeake & Southern Colonies
staple crops (tobacco, sugar)
large population of enslaved Africans
labor intensive economy built around chattel slavery

8. Chesapeake Society Tobacco Shapes a Region, 1630–1670
Headright system- Landowners would receive an extra 50 acres of land for every servant imported

9. Chesapeake Society Bacon’s Rebellion, 1675-1676
Gov. Berkeley (Tidewater Aristocrats) vs. Nathaniel Bacon (back country farmers)

10. Chesapeake Society From Servitude to Slavery
% of population is slave, 80% of unfree labor

11. “British- American” System of Slavery
Rigid racial hierarchy
The Atlantic Slave Trade grows due to:
1. an abundance of land
2. a shortage of indentured servants
3. no means to enslave native people
4. growing European demand for colonial goods

13. Puritanism in New England
“A City Upon a Hill”
John Winthrop- Gov. Mass. Bay Colony
Massachucetts extends voting rights to all adult male “saints”