1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The
Restoration
Colonies
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. English
Restoration

3. England in Turmoil Charles I Absolute Monarch
Civil War
Crisis
Charles I
Absolute Monarch
Anglican, but married Catholic princess
Deposed and executed 1649
Oliver Cromwell
Military Dictatorship
Puritan
Died 1658
Charles II
Limited Monarch
Anglican
“Restored” to throne in 1660

4. Restoration
Restoration Colonies=Later Colonies (after Virginia & New England)

5. Overview

6. More Like Later America Than Other Regions!
Economic diversity.
Large cities  more cosmopolitan culture.
Some slavery [6%-12% of the population].
Ethnic and religious diversity.
Religious toleration.
“Bread Colonies.”

7. Settling the Middle [or “Restoration”] Colonies
GOALS  profit and individual betterment.

8. Ethnic Groups

9. New
York

10. New Netherlands & New Sweden
Founded in the 1660s by:
Friends of British King Charles II.
Land speculators.
Middle class farmers & craftsmen.

11. New York
Manors &
Land Grants
Patroonships

12. New York Harbor, 1639

13. New Amsterdam

14. Governor of New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Amsterdam

15. Anglo-Dutch Wars
“New York”

16. Pennsylvania

17. William Penn
The “Holy Experiment”

18. Royal Land Grant to Penn

19. Penn & Native Americans

20. Penn’s Treaty with the Native Americans

21. Urban Population Growth 1650 - 1775

22. New
York

23. Settling the Lower South
1660s – 1730s
The Carolinas & Georgia.
Planters & yeomen farmers from VA or the Sugar Islands.
Debtors & other petty criminals.

24. The only southern port city.
Port of Charles Town, SC
The only southern port city.

25. Crops of the Carolinas
Rice
Indigo

26. Rice & Indigo Exports from SC & GA: 1698-1775

27. Founder of Georgia James Oglethorpe
A “buffer zone” between Britain’s North American colonies & Spanish Florida.
James Oglethorpe

28. The Trustees of Georgia Painted by William Verelst, 1734

29. Grill pattern of settlement.
1733 Savannah
Grill pattern of settlement.

30. Social Crisis
in the Colonies

31. Iroquois Lands & European Trade Centers

32. King Philip’s War, 1675 – 1676)

33. Governor William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion ( )
Nathaniel Bacon
Governor William Berkeley

34. 18c Southern Colonies

35. Stono Rebellion
1739