England
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Defeat of Spanish armada in 1588 England a superior naval power
Population increase
Joint-stock companies develop
Religious conflicts divide the nation
Just like weak monarchs, civil wars, and revolutions
England colonies
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Corporate Colony
Charters
o Granted a charter to stockholders
o Ex. Virginia
Proprietary Colony
o Granted a Charter to individual or groups
o Ex. Maryland, Pennsylvania
Royal Colony
o Under Direct control of the monarch
o Ex. New Hampshire
o Eventually, 8 of the 13 colonies royals become colonies like Virginia and
Massachusetts.
The First English Colonies
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First attempt: Roanoke in 1585
First Permanent: Jamestown, Virginia 1607
o John smith- “he that will not work shall now eat”
o John Rolfe- tobacco
Pocahontas dies of small pock and marries john smith
Pilgrims
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!3 colonies
New England
Separatist to Holland then for Virginia
Mayflower takes separatist to Jamestown, but the weather makes it hard.
Settlers decide to stay, and they establish Plymouth in 1620
Mayflower compact agree to live under terms
Natives were there called the Wampanoag Dwelling
Teach Europeans how to farm
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Massachusetts Bay colony and puritans (1630)
o John Winthrop
o “city upon a hill”
Rhode Island
o Providence (1636)
 Anne Hutchinson
Connecticut
Puritanical lifestyle in Massachusetts
Religious toleration and dissent Rhode Island
o Roger Williams and “wall of separation”
o Anne Hutchinson and Antinomianism
Halfway Covenant (1662)
o 185 accused
 141 women 44 men
Middle colonies
New York down to Delaware
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New york
o New Amsterdam transferred to Duke of York in 1664
Southen colonies
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Maryland (1634)
o Lord Baltimore
o Act of Toleration (1649_
Virginia (1607)
13 colonies are
New England
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Massachusetts
Rohde Island
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Middle Colonies
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New York
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
South colonies
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Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Maryland
Virginia
William Pen is a quaker
Quakers are in Pennsylvania
The Salem witch trials are at the bay of Massachusetts.
Plymouth rock is where the separatists stood when they came to Massachusetts to settle Plymouth,
they wanted to go to Virginia but they had troubles.
Roanoke island is in North Carolina
Virginia, James town john smith and Pocahontas
Virginia
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-Heart land with the plantation land
-heart land of the government
Becomes a royal colony in 1624
Headright system
50 acres to each paying immigrant or plantation owner who paid for immigrant
Georgia
Colonial Religion
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It is mostly protestant dominant there is also Lutheran catholic Presbyterian congregationalist
The Great awakening very excited
Colonial politics
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Orange revolution
And freedom of expression, voting, limited self-government
Colonial society and colonial culture
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Gender roles
Men were more landowner workers
Woman submissive to men but respected, domestic responsibilities, limited to no political
rights.
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Colonial culture-education
They did not have school men female learned domestic chores
Higher education for ministry/theological studies
New England colonies education by mothers
Towns with other 50 families required primary schools
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Settlement and Migration
Africans forced to go to America
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