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Chapter 3
COLONIAL SOCIETY
SPANISH
Christianity
Daily life
Pueblo Indians
Revolt
MAP 3.3 European Colonies of the Atlantic Coast, 1607 –39
Virginia, on Chesapeake Bay, was the first English colony in
North America, but by the midseventeenth century, Virginia was joined by settlements of
Scandinavians on the Delaware
River, and Dutch on the Hudson
River, as well as English religious dissenters in New
England. The territories indicated here reflect the vague boundaries of the early colonies.
DUTCH
New Amsterdam
Trade, diversity, religious toleration
Diversity
Flushing, N.Y.
Africans, Jews, Italians, Germans
FRENCH EMPIRE
Trade and missionaries
Intermixing cultures
Different from Spanish
Cooperation
MAP 3.3 European Colonies of the Atlantic Coast, 1607 –39
Virginia, on Chesapeake Bay, was the first English colony in
North America, but by the midseventeenth century, Virginia was joined by settlements of
Scandinavians on the Delaware
River, and Dutch on the Hudson
River, as well as English religious dissenters in New
England. The territories indicated here reflect the vague boundaries of the early colonies.
DAILY LIFE IN VIRGINIA
Third world conditions
Life expectancy
Grandparents?
45 (F), 50 (M)
Little social developments
Expansion / Conflict
Population growth
Natives
BACON’S REBELLION
Chaos
Conflict
Nathaniel Bacon
Consequences?
Land +
Natives
Economic division
Slavery
Puritanism in England
PURITANS:
Religious reformers
“Purify” church
Hard work to serve God
Persecution
DAILY LIFE IN N.E.
Stability, family
Villages
Meetinghouse
50-100 families
Economy
Native Americans
MAP 3.4 The Proprietary Colonies
After the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, King Charles II of
England created the new proprietary colonies of Carolina, New York,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. New
Hampshire was set off as a royal colony in 1680, and in 1704, the lower counties of Pennsylvania became the colony of Delaware.
Early Carolina Society
Ethnic/religiously diverse
Clashes
African slave labor
Farming
QUAKERS
N.J., Pennsylvania
Lower class
William Penn
Utopianism
Church of England corrupt
Equality
Pacifists, no military
Natives and Quakers
COLONIAL SOCIETY
Courtship and marriage
Dating?
Frontier people
Stealing brides
Puritans
Civil; courtship stick, bundling
COLONIAL SOCIETY
Virginia
Sacred union
Parents
Quakers
Consent of everyone
Elaborate courtship process
Slaves
Broomstick
COLONIAL LIFE
Divorce rare
Gender roles
Traditional
No sex outside marriage
Procreation
COLONIAL LIFE
Small communities
Everyone knew everybody…and what they were doing
MAP 3.5 Spread of Settlement: British Colonies, 1650 –1700 The spread of settlement in the English colonies in the late seventeenth century created the conditions for a number of violent conflicts, including King Philip’s War, Bacon’s Rebellion, and King William’s War.
