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England in the Chesapeake

England in the Chesapeake. In 1607 they settled Jamestown. joint-stock company: a group of investors who bought the right to establish New World plantations from the king. company was called the Virginia Company.

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England in the Chesapeake

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  1. England in the Chesapeake

  2. In 1607 they settled Jamestown

  3. joint-stock company: a group of investors who bought the right to establish New World plantations from the king

  4. company was called the Virginia Company

  5. English gentlemen, were ill-suited to the many adjustments life in the New World required

  6. Indians showed him how

  7. Tobacco’s success largely determined the fate of the Virginia region

  8. Area came to be known as the Chesapeake (named after the bay)

  9. Why emigrate?

  10. Overpopulation in England had led to widespread famine, disease, and poverty

  11. Opportunity provided by indentured servitude

  12. Indentured servants received a small piece of property with their freedom, thus enabling them (1) to survive, and (2) to vote

  13. In 1619 Virginia established the House of Burgesses, in which any property-holding, white male could vote

  14. The New England Colonies

  15. Protestant movement called Puritanism arose in England

  16. Wanted to purify the corrupt Anglican Church

  17. One Puritan group called Separatists left England and went to Holland

  18. In 1620 they set sail for Virginia Mayflower, went off course and they landed in modern-day Massachusetts

  19. Mayflower Compact created a legal authority and an assembly. It asserted that the government's power derives from the consent of the governed

  20. Pilgrims received life-saving assistance from local Native Americans

  21. 1629: a larger and more powerful colony called Massachusetts Bay was established by Congregationalists (Puritans who wanted to reform the Anglican church from within )

  22. Separatists and the Congregationalists did not tolerate religious freedom in their colonies, even though both had experienced and fled religious persecution.

  23. Roger Williams, a teacher in the Salem Bay settlement, taught that church and state should be separate Puritans banished Williams

  24. He moved to modern-day Rhode Island and founded a new colony

  25. Anne Hutchinson was a prominent proponent of antinomianism

  26. antinomianism faith and God's grace suffice to earn one a place among the "elect."

  27. She was tried for heresy, convicted, and banished

  28. English settlers in New England and the Chesapeake differed considerably

  29. New Englanders were definitely more religious and more family based

  30. Proprietory Colonies

  31. Maryland was another, granted to Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore

  32. Maryland became a haven of religious tolerance for all Christians, and it became the first major Catholic enclave in the New World

  33. New York was also a royal gift Some of the area was a Dutch settlement called New Netherland

  34. The Quakers received their own colony. William Penn, a Quaker, was a close friend of King Charles II, and Charles granted Penn what became Pennsylvania

  35. Carolina was also a proprietary colony, which ultimately split in two

  36. North Carolina, which was settled by Virginians, developed into a Virginia-like colony

  37. South Carolina was settled by the descendants of Englishmen who had colonized Barbados

  38. Beginnings of African slavery

  39. Slavery begins to replace indentured servitude as main labor force.

  40. Triangular trade routes Slaves to sugar plantations, sugar to distillers in colonies, rum and such to Europe

  41. Eventually, most of the proprietary colonies were converted to royal colonies (owned by the crown)

  42. THE AGE OF SALUTARY NEGLECT (1650 TO 1750) Also “Benign Neglect”

  43. British too busy with other problems to keep close watch on colonies

  44. ENGLISH REGULATION OF COLONIAL TRADE Mercantilists believed that economic power was rooted in a favorable balance of trade, with strong control by the state.

  45. Navigation Acts required the colonists to buy goods only from England andprohibited the colonies from manufacturing a number of goods that England already produced

  46. MAJOR EVENTS OF THE PERIOD

  47. LIFE IN THE COLONIES Population in 1700 was 250,000; by 1750, that number was 1,250,000

  48. Bacon’s Rebellion begins to expose the differences growing between backcountry farmers and tidewater elite.

  49. Great Awakening Major religious revival following the “loss of faith of some settlers.”

  50. Children's education had to be fit in around their work schedules

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