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New Colonies ◦ 1629 Massachusetts Bay Company Great Migration ◦ 15,000 Puritans ◦ 1630s Massachusetts ◦ John Winthrop ◦ Boston ◦ Royal Charter
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Connecticut ◦ Thomas Hooker Hartford Fundamental Orders of Connecticut ◦ First written constitution of America Rhode Island ◦ Roger Williams ◦ Religious freedom New Hampshire ◦ John Wheelwright
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Wampanoags ◦ Metacomet King Philip’s War ◦ 14 months Colonial Exapansion
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New Netherland Dutch West India Company ◦ Patroon Ruled like kings New York ◦ England sent fleet ◦ Duke of York ◦ Proprietary colony Diverse First Jews to settle in North America
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Duke of York divided his colony ◦ Lord John Berkeley ◦ Sir George Carterct To attract settlers, proprietors offered ◦ Large tracts of land ◦ Freedom of religion ◦ Trial by jury ◦ Representative assembly Royal colony
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Quakers ◦ Everyone is equal ◦ Pacifists William Penn ◦ King Charles owed Penn’s father Delaware became independent from Pennsylvania
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Virginia ◦ Jamestown ◦ Indentured servants Maryland ◦ Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore ◦ Mason-Dixon Line 1760s Maryland and Pennsylvania argued over boundary Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon ◦ Act of Toleration Ensured Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely
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1663, King Charles II named south a propriety ◦ Latin for “Charles’ Land” John Locke ◦ Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina Two Carolinas 1729 Eliza Lucas ◦ Indigio
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1733 James Oglethorpe ◦ Received charter from George II Debtors and the poor Built forts to protect from Spanish invansion
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Bad soil ◦ Subsistence farming ◦ Depended on children ◦ Women made household items Small businesses (industrial) Colonial shipping trade Fishing
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Fertile Soil ◦ Cash crops Industries ◦ Small and large businesses Diversity – Immigrants ◦ Scotch-Irish, German, Dutch, and Swedish
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Warm Climate Cash Crops ◦ Tobacco and rice Plantations ◦ Village Little industry Enslaved people Plantation owners controlled economic and political life of that region
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Maryland and Virginia ◦ Tobacco Indentured servants -> Slaves South Carolina and Georgia ◦ Rice ◦ Fastest growing economies
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West Africa ◦ War/Rivalries Need for workers The Middle Passage ◦ 2 nd part of Triangular Trade Trade between Europe, Africa, and New World Treated poorly Slave Market
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Mostly in the field Slave codes ◦ Couldn’t leave plantation without consent ◦ Illegal to teach enslaved people to read or write ◦ Seldom allowed to move freely Punishments ◦ Whipping, hanging, burning Runaways Families torn apart Buy freedom
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English ideals, trial by jury 2 principles ◦ Protected rights ◦ Representative legislature Protected rights ◦ People elected delegates to make laws and conduct government
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English Parliament ◦ Power to legislate (make laws) ◦ 2 chambers House of Lords House of Commons Glorious Revolution ◦ Mid 1600s – Parliament and King James II struggle for power 1688 – Parliament removed King James II and crowned William and Mary ◦ No ruler would have more power than legislature
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1689 Clear limits on a ruler’s power Stated that ◦ Ruler could not suspend Parliament’s laws ◦ Impose taxes ◦ Raise an army without Parliament’s consent Members were freely elected Right to fair trial Banned cruel and unusual punishments
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13 Colonies began as either charter or proprietary colony ◦ Charter Colony Based on a grant of rights by the English monarch Ex. Massachusetts ◦ Proprietary Colony Property of owner or group of owners Ex. Pennsylvania Ruled how they wished Named own governs and many other officials ◦ Royal Colony Under direct English control Ex. Virginia
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Townspeople -> local government ◦ Male landowners Strong belief in their right to govern themselves
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Mercantilism Navigation Acts ◦ 1650s ◦ Laws forced on colonists to sell raw materials to England even over a better offer Taxed by England Colonial Resistance ◦ Accepted Navigation Acts ◦ Revolted and led to American Revolution
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