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Colonial Beginnings

Colonial Beginnings. Virginia Maryland Carolinas. Cause and Effect Chains: British Colonization in the New World. English Protestantism. Queen Elizabeth I. Spanish Success in the New World. English Colonial Failures. Enclosures . Primogeniture. Economic Depression.

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Colonial Beginnings

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  1. Colonial Beginnings Virginia Maryland Carolinas

  2. Cause and Effect Chains: British Colonization in the New World English Protestantism Queen Elizabeth I Spanish Success in the New World English Colonial Failures Enclosures Primogeniture Economic Depression Joint Stock Company Peace with Spain

  3. Virginia - Jamestown Colony 1607 • The Trading Post Model • The Death Trap Syndrome • Tidal River Explanation: • Fecal pollutants • Swamps: malaria • Summers were the dying time • The Starving Time • Anglo Powhatan Wars • 1610-14 • 1622 • 1644-46 • The Survivor Show Model • 1500 of 8000 by 1624 • The Economic Problems • Younger Son Syndrome • Early economic thrust • Tobacco • John Rolfe, Santo Domingo • Output • 1618-30,000 lbs • 1627:500,000 lbs • Indentured Servitude 3 Schemes • 1612, 1616, 1624

  4. Planter Negative incentives Use of Force Don’t work well Positive incentives Offered tools shorter contracts Very common and effective Indentured Servant 7 Years No incentive to work hard Planter Indentured Servant Relationships

  5. 1619 the Year of Change • The Virginia government model established: The Virginia House of Burgesses - 1st American Representative government • Colonial permanency Boat load of women arrive - • Changing labor scheme: Shipment of Africans (Dutch traders)

  6. Virginia Social, Political, and Economic Evolution • Virginians shared a low quality • of life prior to 1642 • 1642 8,000 residents • Enter: Sir William Berkeley • 1675- 40,000 • Cavalier migration • Royalist immigrants • Many servant-immigrants • ages 15-24 During this period a ruling elite evolved from the Royalist families who controlled Virginia government

  7. Restoration Colonies Maryland Carolinas South Coastal West Indies link rice and indigo Barbados slave code Inland North: Virginia farmers tobacco Catholic Elite Attempted manorial system Tobacco as a cash crop Backcountry farmers - Protestants Gain political superiority

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