Summer Reading
&
Early Colonial Era
Review
Common motivations for all European
Exploration in the New World
• Power & Prestige
• Profit
• Religion
Purposes of the Colonies
• Profits
• Raw Materials/Columbian
Exchange
• Mercantilism
The Creation of Colonial
Identity, 1607-1763
1. Economic: Salutary
Neglect, South
Atlantic System
2. Geographic: Regional
Diversity
3. Intellectual:
Enlightenment &
Great Awakening
What made the
Northern
Colonies unique?
• New England:
– Massachusetts
– New Hampshire
– Rhode Island
– Connecticut
Puritan Society
• “Theocracy” led by
Gov. John Winthrop - “City Upon A Hill”
• Results of Puritans?
• How did the religious
dissenters who
founded New England
deal with dissent
within their own sect?
Political Independent Spirit of
New England Established
What made the
Middle Colonies
unique?
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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Tolerance in Middle Colonies
• Most diverse
backgrounds &
religions
• Most tolerant
What made
the Southern
Colonies unique?
• Chesapeake
– (Maryland, Virginia)
• Lower South
– (North Carolina,
– South Carolina,
Georgia)
Laborers & Landowners
• “Headright” system
• Indentured Servitude vs.
Slavery
• Yeoman Farmers vs.
Landed Gentry
British-Native Relations in Chesapeake
• Why would lower
class farmers follow
the wealthy
Nathaniel Bacon
into rebellion
against the local
aristocracy?
• Results of Bacon’s
Rebellion?
Colonial Cultural/Intellectual Changes by
Mid 1700’s Demonstrate “Alternative”
Thinking in the Colonies
• 1st Great Awakening
• Old Lights vs. New Lights
• Revivalism
• New Denominations
• Enlightenment
• Deism
• Franklin