1. Puritans, Prostitutes Pennsylvanians, and Progress
Coming to America
Puritans, Prostitutes Pennsylvanians, and Progress

2. Reasons for Migration

3. Virginia Company
An English joint-stock company started by London entrepreneurs
Joint-stock company – Business venture in which multiple investors share financial interest and liability. Started for the purpose of sharing the risk of overseas trading.
Secured a charter for colonizing land on America’s Eastern shore

4. Jamestown Settlement
Settled as a chartered joint-stock venture in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London
First permanent British colony in America
Names James Town after King James I of England who granted the charter

5. The Problem of Jamestown
Largely gentlemen (no women)
Wanted adventure
Looking for gold and fame
Limited skills for survival
Leadership was ineffective
People began to starve
Anger mounted

6. What saved Jamestown?

8. The Puritans Arrived at Plymouth, Mass in 1630 Led by John Winthrop
“City upon a hill”
Religion
Strict Calvinism
All people born in sin and must purify themselves in life
Priesthood of all believers
Increase Mather
Cotton Mather
Alan Mather?

9. Things Fall Apart Puritan intolerance leads to expulsions:
Anne Hutchinson 1637 moved to Rhode Island
Believed sinners could still get salvation and that women were not cursed due to gender
Gained sanctuary in Roger Williams’ Rhode Island
Puritan ideology faced difficult competition
Emergence of cities placed emphasis on commerce and “vice”
Many younger Puritans moved to cities—found pleasure in gambling, drinking, and sex…oh my!

10. Pleasure as a reason for migration
Prostitution flourished in colonial cities. John Adams would have counted over 3 dozen “bawdy houses” within walking distance of his Philadelphia home
Taverns were the bane of the Founding Fathers. Lower and middling classes of all races found spirits, dancing, interracial mingling, sex, and gambling in 18th century bars
Source: Thaddeus Russell, A Renegade History of the United States

11. William Penn A leading defender of religious toleration in England
Imprisoned six times for speaking out against religious intolerance
While in prison, he wrote numerous pamphlets about Quaker ideology and attacking intolerance
One of his criminal cases helped secure the right to trial by jury

12. Settlement of Pennsylvania
Charter granted to William Penn in 1681 from King Charles II in payment of a debt
Penn asks for the land as a refuge for Quakers
Quakers, or Society of Friends, were persecuted harshly by the English crown and throughout Europe

13. Frame of Government
Pennsylvania was settled on the Quaker principles of complete freedom of conscience, religious tolerance, and peace (especially with Native tribes)
Frame of Government, Pennsylvania’s written constitution, limited the power of government and guaranteed many fundamental liberties

14. Settlement of Georgia
Chartered in 1732 by a group of trustees led by James Oglethorpe
Founded as a colony for jailed debtors, criminals, and political prisoners from England
English Debtors Prison

15. Soldier; Philanthropist; Founder of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Soldier; Philanthropist; Founder of Georgia
“In America there are fertile lands sufficient to subsist all the useless Poor in England, and distressed Protestants in Europe”

16. Settlement of Georgia
King George was not a philanthropist like Oglethorpe
He wanted a buffer between Spanish Florida and the Carolina colony