1. Puritanism

2. Types of Colonies
Joint Stock – colonies granted to private companies in the hopes of creating profits from colonization
Proprietary – land granted to individuals for the purpose of creating colonies; the individuals had the right then to grant land to whomever they chose
Royal – colonies headed by the English crown/government itself

3. Motives for colonizing
Overpopulation
Gold
Raw materials
Missionaries

4. MERCANTILISM: AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN WHICH NATIONS SEEK TO INCREASE THEIR WEALTH BY OBTAINING GOLD & SILVER AND WITH A FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE
MERCANTILISM

5. 1661: Charles II regains the control of England
The Beginning
English Restoration
Monarch would be overthrown and replaced with a Puritan leader (Oliver Cromwell)
1661: Charles II regains the control of England
Decided to go colonize the New World

6. Calvinism Original sin Saved by God’s grace Predestination
These are characteristics of ________________

7. Why believe it??? The elect can only be admitted into the church
Man could not know who is saved
You need to be godly
Peer pressure and social status played a whole part in salvation

8. puritanism Democratic New England Town Meetings Self-government
Organization
Order
Democratic
New England Town Meetings
Self-government
Religious intoleration
Focus on materialism
Halfway Covenant

9. Characteristics Living a Godly life Inequality of man Profit motive
Protestant work ethic
Blue laws

10. change Enlightenment Great Awakening Intellectual movement in Europe
Emphasized science, reason, and observation
Religious movement in the colonies

11. Enlightenment
Movement away from a God-centered view of life to a man-centered view of life
Science and reason can answer:
Life’s mysteries
Questions about government
People could find God on their own
Questioning the leaders of the church led to questioning leaders of the government

12. Deism
Philosophy based on Christianity
Founding fathers
Belief: God put the natural laws in place, then let the universe function according to those rules
God doesn’t take part in the lives of the people
If a leader failed in responsibility to his people, the people have the right to elect someone else
Sound familiar???

13. effects Literacy rose in the colonies
Newspapers and books publications rose
Schools are introduced into towns
Government must protect the natural rights of man
Kings don’t govern people; people must consent

14. Great awakening
Revival of religion in hopes to bring people back to God
*reaction to the Enlightenment
Personal power in religion
Gave everyone something to believe in
Personal emotion over outward emotion
Fire-brimstone
Importance of the individual

15. People George Whitfield Jonathan Edwards Raw emotion Open fields
“sinners in the hands of an angry God”

16. outcomes New denominations New interest in religion
New colleges to help teach ministers
Harvard
Yale
Religious toleration
Gave man importance

17. Slavery Does not work out early on What changes?? Middle passage
Indentured servants are cheaper
Low life expectancy
What changes??
Rise of English wages
Life expectancy increases
Slave for life
Royal African Company loses monopoly of slave trade
More profitable
Middle passage

18. Colonial class structure
Social hierarchy
Birth less important then in Europe
Land ownership less important
Wealth is most important
Elite close off entry
Social mobility much easier
Social pyramid
Slaves
Indentured servants/jail birds
Manual workers/hired hands
Farmers (land owning)
Lesser professionals
Aristocrats, planters, merchants, lawyers, clergymen