Review: The English Colonies: 1607-1750s
Economic
• Mercantilism
• Market: Wool
• Enclosure Movement
• Economic Models (Royal, Proprietary,
Corporate)
• Liberty and Land. (Ownership)
• Jamestown, Virginia.
• Maryland
• Tobacco
• Rice
• Indigo
• Trade ports
• Slave Societies: Southern colonies
• Society With Slaves: New England and Middle
Colonies
• The Seven-Years War (war is expensive.
British, French, Spanish)
• English administration of colonies
• Colonial Wars.
Social
• Religion:
• The Reformation
• Anglican Church/King Henry VIII
• Puritans- New England
• Separatists (Pilgrims)
• Rivalry with Spain
• Dissent in the colonies (Roger Williams,
Anne Hutchinson
• Indigenous
• Land: force, treaties
• Environmental destruction
• Domestication of Livestock
• Uprising of 1622
• Pequot War
• Tobacco: Indigenous
• Women
• Brabbling Women
• Salem, Massachusetts
• Indigenous women
• Africans in the Colonies
• 1619: indentured servants
• Charter Generation
• 1640s-Chattel Slavery
• Free Blacks: New York, New Orleans
• Slave Family: Community, Resistance,
Survival, Religion, Labor
• Changing Ideologies: The Enlightenment,
the Great Awakening
On The Road to A
Revolution.
Political
• Rivalry with Spain
• Colonial Settlements (Spanish in North
America)
• Queen Elizaeth
• 13 Colonies
• Mayflower Compact
• Indigenous
• Laws (Encomienda)
• Laws- protection of trade
• English law: gendered
• King James I and Tobacco
• Laws: Chattel Slavery
• Taxes and Tariffs
• Lack of Representation from Crown
• Organization: Colonial Legislatures
• Capitals in each of the colonies
• Colonial Wars
* Be familiar with some of the
names of the founding families
in the colonial period. We will
discuss key individuals during
the Revolutionary Era.