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US AP HISTORY Bell Work: 1. What is a Utopic society? 2.What were some of the English motivations for settling in the New World? 3.How did the distance across the Atlantic help lead to a rather hands off approach to the growth of the new colonies?
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A NEW HOME IN A NEW LAND ENGLISH COLONIZATION 1603-89 Overview: New World as a homeland Motives – Economic and Religious Free English Institutions
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UTOPIA - 1516 Ideal Society Sir Thomas Moore
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Sir Walter Raleigh Croatoan ROANOKE ISLAND - 1587
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JOINT STOCK COMPANY Pool of investors to stake claims in the new world utilizing stock Two joint stock companies formed and granted land grants by James I. Virginia Company- Southern Virginia (Jamestown) Plymouth Company- Northern Virginia (Mass. Bay Colony)
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Captain John Smith Powhatan Indians (Tobacco) John Rolfe Pocahontas 1607 – JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA
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JAMESTOWN CONTINUED Hardships- water, lack of discipline, “starving time” Edwin Sandys (sands)- private ownership and representative government House of Burgesses Headrights (trip paid- 50 acres) vs. indentured servitude… Leads to stratified society- poor vs. rich Defense issues- attacks by the Powhatans
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An 1873 lithograph depicting the expedition against Nemasket led by Standish and guided by Hobbamock Pilgrim Separatists William Bradford Mayflower Compact 1 st Written Constitution (Civil, Body, Politics) Miles Standish (Military Support) 1620 - PLYMOUTH
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John Winthrope o Puritans – John Winthrop o “The Great Migration” (20,000 people within 10 years) 1630 – MASSACHUSETTS BAY
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1636 – RHODE ISLAND Roger Williams: banished for religious beliefs-” land purchase from Indians, no punishment for religious beliefs Anne Hutchinson : Ideas reinterpreted and must leave to Rhode Island (Antinomianism) Personal relationship with God
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1636 - CONNECTICUT THOMAS HOOKER FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT (CONSTITUTION)- BLUE PRINT FOR CIVIL GOVERNMENT (SOME MEN COULD VOTE)
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Lord Baltimore & Catholics Protestants’ Toleration an is overwhelmed Oyster War (Virginia from Maryland shoreline to the north) 1634 - MARYLAND
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MARYLAND’S CATHOLIC COLONY Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)… friends with James I Openly Catholic- sponsors a Catholic colony- his son creates the colony but must appease Protestants to survive. English Civil War almost divides the colony but the “Act concerning Religion” pushed religious tolerance
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1663 – NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA Anthony Cooper… with support from John Locke Establishes an aristocracy and stratified society. Nobles Serfs – Slaves for Life Divisions between the North and South will lead to dividing the colony.
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James, Duke of York Seized from the Dutch New Institutes Navigation Act 1663 1664 – NEW YORK
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William Penn (converted Quaker) Quakers “Asylum for all” Proprietary Colony Some challenge to Penn’s power- agrees to Charter of liberty Freest Natural Place 1681 - PENNSYLVANIA
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James Oglethorpe Prison, debtors colony. Buffer zone against the Spanish 1732 - GEORGIA
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ECONOMIC MERCANTILIST
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