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US AP History

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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US AP History

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  1. 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?

  2. A New Home in a New LandEnglish Colonization 1603-89 Overview: • New World as a homeland • Motives – Economic and Religious • Free English Institutions

  3. Utopia - 1516 • Ideal Society • Sir Thomas Moore

  4. Roanoke Island - 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh Croatoan

  5. 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)

  6. 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia Captain John Smith Powhatan Indians (Tobacco) John Rolfe Pocahontas

  7. 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

  8. An 1873 lithograph depicting the expedition against Nemasket led by Standish and guided by Hobbamock 1620 - Plymouth Pilgrim Separatists Mayflower Compact 1st Written Constitution (Civil, Body, Politics) Miles Standish (Military Support)

  9. John Winthrope 1630 – Massachusetts Bay Puritans – John Winthrop “The Great Migration” (20,000 people within 10 years)

  10. 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

  11. 1636 - Connecticut Thomas Hooker Fundamental orders of Connecticut (Constitution)- blue print for civil government (Some men could vote)

  12. 1634 - Maryland Lord Baltimore & Catholics Protestants’ Toleration an is overwhelmed Oyster War (Virginia from Maryland shoreline to the north)

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 1664 – New York James, Duke of York Seized from the Dutch New Institutes Navigation Act 1663

  16. 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

  17. 1732 - Georgia James Oglethorpe Prison, debtors colony. Buffer zone against the Spanish

  18. Economic Mercantilist

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