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Chapter 3Expansion and Diversity: The Rise of Colonial America

The New England Way

Puritan’s Great Migration◦ Puritanism? Whats it about

A City Upon a Hill◦ Charles I Elimination of Puritanism in England

Results

Massachusetts Bay vs. Plymouth◦ Similarities◦ Differences

John Winthrop

Pequot War – Massacre at Mystic

Read Massacre at Mystic

Read in groups of 3, and answer questions that go with the reading

Please do not write on the reading as I only have a class set.

Class discussion!

Massachusetts Bay Company

John Winthrop◦ A Model of Christian Charity Utopia

◦ First winter in Boston Native Americans

◦ Disease Epidemic 1 Epidemic 2

◦ Pequot War, 1637 Connecticut established 1635 Tensions escalate Mystic, CT

Dissent and Orthodoxy◦ New England Way

Means of establishing Orthodoxy◦ Education

Schools for children

Harvard…properly trained ministers

◦ Government

Church free of state control

MA Bay, cooperation between church and state

Roger Williams

Challenges to the New England Way

Roger Williams◦ Civil govt should not be involved in religious matters◦ Banished◦ Founds Rhode Island

Ann Hutchinson◦ Followers called Antinomians◦ Tried for heresy◦ Settled in Rhode Island

Antinomians Defeat: effect◦ Leads to new restrictions on women

Self Interests◦ Most fundamental threat◦ Govt tried to control prices so people wouldn’t suffer Robert Keayne

Control of Congregation◦ Male “saints” Chose mister, elected board of elders, decided who should be

“saints”

◦ Suffrage for every adult male “saint”

◦ Bicameral General Court

◦ Women exchange goods and advice (and news) Mary Rolfe

New England Family◦ Nuclear Family foundation for society

◦ Married by Justice of Peace

◦ Permitted divorce 27

◦ Healthy family

Women◦ Protected from abuse

◦ No property rights

Environment and life expectancy◦ Lower death rates

Roles◦ Women Children

House, barn, garden, making food and clothing

◦ Men Managed families crops and livestock, conducted business

transactions, represented it in government

◦ Children Labor

Parents provided them with acreage for farming

Half-Way Covenant◦ Holy contract with God obliging them to implement godly

rule Issues with 2nd generation not joining the elect

Many children would remain unbaptized

◦ Covenant would allow all children of baptized parents to be baptized

Anne Hutchinson

New England Society

Metacom aka King Philip

Expansion and Native Americans

Farmers building out farther Fur trade King Phillips War

◦ Metacom (King Phillip)◦ Several Wampanoags were shot while stealing from farmhouse

◦ 2/3 of Native Americans in NE rallied around Metacom

◦ Mohawk of NY and many Christian Indians joined English

◦ English and allies destroy enemies◦ Effects: indian population reduced by 40% in Southern NE and eliminated resistance to white expansion Deepened english hostility toward ALL native

americans

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials

Eastern Salem=richer soil and benefited from Salem’s commercial expansion

Western Salem=less fertile soil did not share prosperity and lost political influence

Witchcraft hysteria, 1691◦ Several girls, encouraged African slave Tituba to tell them their fortunes

◦ Trials and punishment◦ Governor Phips

Chesapeake Society

Society divided between wealthy whites, indentured servants, black slaves, and poor whites

Indentured servants: Came to America under contract to work for another for a period of time (generally 4-7 years)

Government in VA◦ House of Burgesses ◦ Governors council

Lord Baltimore - Maryland

Maryland

Land Grant to Lord Baltimore◦ North of Potomac and east of Chesapeake Bay

Haven for Catholics Maryland Act of Toleration

◦ 2nd colony to affirm liberty of worship◦ Did not protect non-chirstians

Economics◦ Tobacco MD, VA, and NC depend on price of Tobacco

Prices drop in 1629

1660, drop to 1 cent a pound

Tobacco

Bacon’s Rebellion (1675-1676)

Bacon’s Rebellion

Tensions between natives and settlers expanding

Governor, Lord Baltimore, and others held fur trade monopolies with frontier natives◦ Results: settler resentments against the governor became fused with those against indians

Governor wanted to collect more taxes to build forts on frontier◦ Results: Small farmers preferred the less costly solution of waging war of extermination Turned to Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon

Bacon’s Rebellion◦ 300 elect him to lead them against natives

◦ Definition of enemies

◦ Plunder enemies

◦ Berkeley changed his mind, but Bacon wouldn’t back down

◦ Colonists win

◦ Bacon Dies

◦ Results

Slave Trade

The Middle Passage

Slavery

Replaced indentured servitude◦ Difficult to import white laborers

◦ Rise of direct trade in slaves

◦ Middle Passage: Africa to new world, 300-400 packed in tiny area

◦ Result

Sugar and Slaves: The West Indies◦ Alternative to growing tobacco

◦ Dutch

◦ Slaves preferred labor force

The Carolinas

North Carolina South Carolina

Rice and Slaves: Carolina

Anthony Ashley Cooper…land grants◦ John Locke

Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

Rice◦ Cash Crop

◦ Slaves

Familiar with rice cultivation

Immunities

Dutch – New Netherland

New Netherland

First multiethnic colony Beaver Wars

◦ Iroquois vs. French allies (Hurons, etc)

New Sweden, Delaware Valley◦ Traded with Delaware (Lenni Lenape) and Susquehannock, furs that would have gone to New Netherland

◦ 1655, annexed by Dutch

Historical Significance: New Netherland had population of 9000 by the time the English take over◦ New Sweden gave us the log cabin

New York and New Jersey

English conquests!

Charles II Defeats Dutch and takes New Netherland◦ Gives to his brother the Duke of York (James)

Rename New York

New Jersey given to William Penn, John Berkeley, and Sir Phillip Carteret◦ Sold to Quakers

William Penn - Pennsylvania

Quaker Pennsylvania

William Penn◦ 2 aims Launch a “holy experiment”

Profit

◦ Quakerism George Fox, founder

◦ Holy spirit could inspire every soul

◦ Beliefs

◦ Capital of Philadelphia

◦ Government

◦ Tolerance helped to reduce problems with natives

New France

New France

Canada

Mercantilism

1/5 of population were Voyageurs or courers de bois

Wanted to dominate North America

Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette

La Salle and Louis XIV

Spain

Pope and the Pueblo Revolt◦ Frustrated by intolerance of Spanish

◦ Attacked Spanish village, killed all but 2 Siege of Santa Fe

Led to expulsion of spanish for 12 yrs

Reconqured in 1692

Result

Florida and Texas◦ Florida threatened by English expansion

◦ Texas founded

New World by 1700