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    The document provides an overview of the colonial economies and systems of government in British North America between 1607 and 1754. It discusses the different types of colonial charters granted, including corporate, royal, and proprietary. It then examines the early settlements of Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay. It compares the social, political, and economic differences between New England and the Chesapeake colonies, including their labor systems and institutions of government. Finally, it outlines the development of the other colonial regions, including the Carolinas, middle colonies, and Georgia, and how the colonial economies operated within the framework of British mercantilism.

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    The Thirteen

    Colonies
    And the
    British
    Empire
    (1607-1754)
    Essential Question
    Compare and contrast the
    social, economic, and
    political systems of each of
    the following colonial
    regions:
     New England
     Chesapeake
     South
    Types of Colonial Charters
    Corporate:
     Joint-stock: for-profit
    Royal:
     Under direct authority of
    the crown
    Proprietary:
     Under individual authority,
    granted ownership by crown
    Early English
    Settlements
    Jamestown and Massachusett s Bay (1607-1632)
    Jamestown
    Virginia Company
    Early Problems
     Settlers:
    Young, single-men; Unaccustomed to work
     “Starving Time” (1609-1610)
    Harsh winter

    John Smith
     “He who shall not work, shall not eat.”
    1st Anglo-Powhatan War (1609-1614)
     Lord de la Warr
    John Rolfe
     “Father of Tobacco”
     Marriage to Pocahontas
    2nd and 3rd Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1622-
    1646)
    Plymouth Plantation
    Causes of Migration:
     Religion:
    Calvinism: predestination
    King James I: persecution
    The Pilgrims
     “Dutchification”
     The Mayflower (1620)
    Arrival at Plymouth Rock
    Early Hardships
     Winter of 1620-1621
     Squanto & The Great Harvest of 1621
    (“Thanksgiving”)
    Leadership
     Governor William Bradford & Captain
    Miles Standish
    Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Rise of the Puritans
     Charles I grants charter
    for Massachusetts Bay
    Company (1629)
    John Winthrop, the
    Arabella, & The “City
    Upon a Hill” (1630)
     1,000  15,000 settlers
    “Great Migration”
    British Colonial Development
    New England and the Chesapeake
    Early Political Institutions
    House of Burgesses (VA)
    Virginia becomes Royal
    Colony (1624)
    House of Delegates (MD)
    New England “Democracy”?
     Mayflower Compact
     Town Meetings
     Restrictions on Voting:
    Freemen (land owning,
    male, full church members
    Maryland – The 2 Plantation Colony
    nd

    Cecil Calvert (Lord


    Baltimore)
     Catholic
     1632 Charter for Maryland
    1st Proprietary Colony
    Act of Toleration (1649)
     Demand for Tobacco
    plantations
     Protected Catholic minority
     Religious freedom for all
    Christians
    Labor Systems
    Indentured Servitude
     4-7 year contracts
    Headright System (VA)
     50 acres of land per
    passage paid
    Slavery
     1619 Dutch ship brings
    first Africans
     Royal African Co. (1660)
    Conflict in Virginia
    Planter Aristocracy vs. Small
    Farmers
     Support of Sir William Berkeley
    Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
     Nathaniel Bacon against
    Jamestown
    23 executed
     Results:
    Highlighted class differences
    Theme: colonial resistance to
    royal control
    Led to rise in slavery
    Development of New England
    Continued religious persecution in
    England
    Rhode Island
     Roger Williams
    Providence (1636)
     Recognized rights of American Indians
     Full religious toleration
     First Baptist church in America
     Anne Hutchinson
    Antinomianism
    Banished from Mass. Bay
     Charter granted to Williams (1644)
    Connecticut (1665)
     Thomas Hooker (Hartford, 1636)
     Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
    New Hampshire (Royal, 1679)
    Issues in New England
    Weakening of the
    Congregationalist Church
     Need for conversion
    experience
     Halfway Covenant
    Allowed for partial church
    membership
    New England Confederation
    (1643)
     Military alliance
    King Philip’s (Metacom) War
    (1675-76)
    The Restoration Colonies
    The Carolinas and the Middle Colonies
    The Carolinas
    Restoration of the English
    Crown (Charles II - 1660)
    South Carolina (1670)
     Rice plantations, fur trade
     Barbados slave codes
     Extremely wealthy planter
    aristocracy
     Charleston (major port)
    North Carolina (1729)
     The “lesser”
    Small farmers
    More democratic, less loyal
    The Middle Colonies
    New York
     English seize New
    Amsterdam from Peter
    Stuyvesant (1664)
     Duke of York (James II)
     Extremely diverse trading
    colony
    New Jersey (Royal – 1702)
     Split from NY: West and
    East New Jersey Combined
    The Middle Colonies (continued)
    Pennsylvania (1681)
     Quakers
     William Penn
     “The Holy Experiment”
    Charter of Liberties (1701)
     Full freedom of religion and
    unrestricted immigration
    Anti-slavery
    Delaware (1702)
     Penn grants separate
    assembly
    Georgia: The Last Colony
    Established as buffer
    w/Spanish Florida (1732)
    James Oglethorpe
    Savannah (1733)
    Special Regulations:
     Slavery banned
     Drinking rum banned
    Royal Colony (1752)
     Bans lifted, plantation
    system ensues
    The Colonial
    Economy
    Economic Characteristics of the
    American Colonies
    Mercantilism and the Empire
    Mercantilism:
     Acquire gold & silver
     Export more than import
     Accumulation of wealth for the
    country
    Navigation Acts (1650-1673)
     Trade only w/England
     Regulated trade an prices
     Enforcement?
    Salutary neglect*
    Dominion of New England (1686)
     Edmond Andros
     Ended w/Glorious Revolution (1688)
    The Institution of Slavery
    Increased Demand:
     Reduced migration
     Dependable workforce
    Impact of Bacon’s rebellion
    Resistant to diseases
     Cheap labor
    Large plantations
    Slave Laws
     Colonial laws began to mimic
    slave codes of the West
    Indies
    Triangular Trade
     The Middle Passage
    Colonial Economies

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