1. Settling the American Colonies
Chapters 2 & 3

2. Jamestown - 1607 Primogeniture Joint-Stock Companies…
Virginia Company of London
Jamestown site…

3. John Smith Kidnapped… “He who does not work, does not eat”
“Starving Time”

4. Powhatan Father of Pocahontas…
His Indian Confederacy falls to the Three “D”s
Disease
Disorganization
Disposability

5. John Rolfe – Tobacco 1612

6. 1619 - Irony 20 Africans sold as slaves in Jamestown…
London Company authorizes the House of Burgesses – 1st Legislature in America

7. Barbados Slave Codes

8. Maryland Lord Baltimore Refuge for English Catholics...
Tobacco Cultivation
Act of Toleration
Granted toleration to all Christians
Jews & Atheists get death penalty

9. English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell

10. Restoration
Charles II
Empire Building Resumes…

11. The Carolinas
South Carolina – Rice Cultivation & Plantation Economy similar to the West Indies
North Carolina – outcast small farmers who didn’t like aristocratic VA or SC

12. Georgia James Oglethorpe Serve as a buffer to Spanish in FL
Haven for imprisoned debtors
Religious Toleration (except Catholics)
John Wesley…

13. “Plantation Colonies” – Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia & the West Indies
Staple Crops
Sugar
Tobacco
Rice
Slavery
Westward Movement
Greater Religious Tolerance

14. Martin Luther Wittenberg, Germany 1517 “95 Theses”
Ignites the Protestant Reformation

15. John Calvin Calvinism – dominant theology of Puritans
Conversion – intensely personal
Predestination – God had determined who was going to heaven…
***Puritans wanted to “purify” the Church of England***

16. Separatists – Wanted to Separate from the Anglican Church (Pilgrims)

17. James I harassed the Separatists…
They flee to Holland…
Board the Mayflower bound for Jamestown…
Arrive in Plymouth Bay

18. Mayflower Compact

19. Wampanoags Befriend the Pilgrims
Squanto

20. Thanksgiving

21. William Bradford Chosen governor of Plymouth Colony 30 times
Economy based on fish, fur, & lumber

22. Massachusetts Bay Colony

23. Great Puritan Migration – 1630’s

24. John Winthrop Governor of Mass. Bay Colony – 19 years
“A City Upon A Hill”
All freemen (churchgoing adult males) could vote
Town Meetings – majority vote
“Bible Commonwealth”

25. Challenges to Puritan Authority
Quakers & Baptists
Fines
Floggings
Banishment
Death Penalty

26. Anne Hutchinson
Antinomianism – truly saved shouldn’t bother to obey God’s or man’s laws…
Banished from Mass. Bay Colony…

27. Roger Williams Extreme separatist, challenged authority of Mass. Bay
Banished and formed Rhode Island
Freedom of Religion
Individualistic & Independent
Devout Puritans called it the “sewer”

28. Connecticut Rev. Thomas Hooker Fundamental Orders of Connecticut- 1639
1st written constitution in America
Legislature elected by popular vote – governor chosen by legislature

29. Pequot War

30. King Phillip’s War

31. Dominion of New England
Sir Edmund Andros
Goaded colonists to the verge of revolt, they begin smuggling goods
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless revolution removes James II and installs William III and Mary
Dominion of New England collapses
Years of salutary neglect begin

32. New Netherlands Henry Hudson - 1609…. New Amsterdam founded…
“Wall Street”
Absorbed “New Sweden”….

33. Peter Stuyvesant Surrenders New Netherlands…. Becomes New York...
Dutch Legacy
Easter Eggs
Santa Clause
Waffles
Bowling, sleighing, skating, golf
Harlem, Brooklyn, etc.

34. William Penn - Pennsylvania

35. Quakers- Religious Society of Friends
“Quaked” ….
Refused to
Pay taxes
Take oaths
Serve in the military

36. Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love
Penn tolerant of all religions
Treated Indians well
Soon Quakers were outnumbered…

37. Middle Colonies Good Soil - “ the bread colonies”
Intermediate sized landholdings…
More ethnically mixed population
Unusual degree of religious toleration and democracy