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1. Colony
11.Indentured Servants
2. Join Stock Company
12.Plantation
3. Charter
13.Salutary Neglect
4. Compact
14.Triangle Trade
5. Proprietary Colony
15.Egalitarianism
6. Royal Colony
16. Merchantilism
7. Religious Dissenters
17.Repealed
8. Puritan
18.Delegates
9. Pilgrims
19.Independence
10.Toleration
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*Colony – a group of people ruled by the
government of another country
*Salutary Neglect – British government left us
alone for almost 200 years and Americans began
governing themselves
*British citizens left to settle in America –
government & laws were set up similar to Britain
but because Britain was so far away citizens
began governing themselves
Class Discussion Question: Would
you follow the your parent’s rules
if they were out of town? What
would you do different?
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Unrest in England
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King Charles I insisted that people should worship his
way
* Puritans- member of an English religious group
The Great Migration
* Great Migration- Puritans left in 1630s to the
Americas because of persecution.
* The leader of the Great Migration was John
Winthrop.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
* Commonwealth - a community in which people work
together for the whole.
* Winthrop was the governor of the colony.
* Settlers had a supposed “agreement” with God to
have a holy city.
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Economy based on shipping, fishing, and timber.
Colonial New England Towns
* New England farmers lived in towns and also
worked in fields.
* Each town had a meetinghouse where they made
laws and determine fees for workers.
The New England Way
* The meetinghouse was also used for church
services, stricter than today.
* The Puritans believed that the Bible was the
source of truth and disapproved of dancing and
playing games.
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Challenges to Puritans
* Dissenter- someone who challenges the
generally accepted views of a Church or society.
* Puritans got mad at William Penn (dissenter
who founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers)
because he said the King had no right to sell
Indians land.
Quakers faced Persecution
* Quakers believed that you found God through
your soul and that neither the Bible nor
ministers were needed.
* Quakers were hanged and tortured for their
beliefs.
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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
New York was first New Netherlands until England
took over New Amsterdam
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New Jersey part of original New York
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn for Quakers
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Would become place of freedom for all religions
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Known as the “Bread Colonies” for production of
wheat and other grains
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Farming, lumber, and furs key to these colonies
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Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Georgia
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Georgia was a colony originally for common
criminals and used as a buffer for other
colonies from Spanish and Native American
attacks
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Tobacco was cash crop at first and cotton
wouldn’t be key until the early 1800s
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Large plantations and slavery ruled the South
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*2 Systems of government formed:
*House of Burgesses - Virginia
*Jamestown – established 1607
*Indirect or representative democracy
*By 1619, each of the 22 areas surrounding the
Jamestown colony elected 2 representatives to the
House of Burgesses
*Mayflower Compact – Massachusetts
*Plymouth Colony – established 1620
*Direct democracy
*Members signed the compact
*Still active today in New England in the form of Town
Hall meetings
*Both are examples of Locke’s Social Contract Theory
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"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten,
the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by
the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of
God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour
of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in
the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly
and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another,
covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body
Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and
Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to
enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws,
Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General
good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission
and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed
our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and
Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno
Domini, 1620."
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*By 1733 all 13 colonies had established governments
*All had a governor & legislature
*Most legislatures were bicameral (2 houses)
*Colonists began to separate themselves from England
& rule themselves
*Mid 1700s – Britain began to tighten control over the
colonists under King George III – needed money to pay
debts from the French & Indian War
*Wanted to maintain control of resources & markets
*Class Discussion: Do you think England had a right to
tax the colonists?
* The French and Indian War
*French empire collided w/ British empire
*Competing over the Ohio River Valley
* Treaty of Paris
Proclamation Line of 1763
• Britain claimed land
east of the Mississippi
River
• Proclamation Line:
banned all settlement
west of Appalachian
Mts. (to ease tensions
w/ N.A.)
• Increased
Independent Spirit
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