Early Settlement to Revolution
Search for a water route
Spain’s Empire
Impact on Natives
France’s Empire
English Empire
1587: the Lost Colony – Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh
1606: Jamestown
Founded by the Virginia Company (joint stock company)
Purpose / settlement patterns / religion
Captain John Smith
Starving Time
Powhatan Confederacy
John Rolfe & tobacco
Chesapeake Region (VA & MD)
Indentured Servitude
1670: Bacon’s Rebellion
Headright System
House of Burgesses
1635: Maryland established under the proprietorship of Cecilius Calvert,
Lord Baltimore as a Catholic Colony
Toleration Act
New England Colonies
1620: Pilgrims (Separatists)
Mayflower
Mayflower Compact
1629: Puritans (Congregationalists)
1629-1642: the Great Migration
John Winthrop
Gov’t via a covenant / town meetings
Halfway covenant
1730-1760: Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield
Instances of religious intolerance: Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New England Confederation
Dominion of New England
Middle Colonies (Bread Colonies)
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
William Penn / Quaker refuge
Known for religious freedom / treatment of Natives
Southern Colonies
Carolinas
Early crops: rice and indigo
Georgia
Triangle Trade / movement to slave labor
1739: Stono Rebellion
Colonial Society & Salutary Neglect
Mercantilism
Control of specie
1651-1673: Navigation Acts
Smugglers
Vice-admiralty courts
French & Indian War to Revolution
Albany Plan of Union
1754-1763: French & Indian War
Pontiac’s Uprising
Proclamation of 1763
The Acts:
George Grenville
Sugar Act of 1764
Stamp Act
Virtual representation
Sons of Liberty
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
1772: Committees of Correspondence
1770: Boston Massacre
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Coercive / “Intolerable” Acts
Quebec Act
1774: First Continental Congress
1775: Battle at Lexington & Concord (Shot Heard ‘Round the World)
Second Continental Congress
Continental Army
George Washington
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1776: Declaration of Independence
1776-1782: War of Independence
Franco-American Alliance
1782: Treaty of Paris