Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
Transplantations v. Middlegrounds
Melting pot
Expansion:
Differences in the Colonies of the North and
South
Headright System (Diversification)
Early Chesapeake:
James I (1606)
Plymouth and London Companies (G, D, SC)
Jamestown:
Location and Geography
Chief Powhattan
Sickness and Debt Desperation
View on Agriculture
Individualistic v. Communal living
John Smith (1608)
Reorganization:
1609 Extension
Adventurers, Planters, Servitude
Great Fleet
Starving Time
Lord De La Warr
Tobacco (Mercantilism)
John Rolfe
House of Burgesses
17th Century Transitions (Dutch)
Suppression of Powhattans (Pocahontas)
Her connection with Rolfe (Christianity)
Revoking Charter
Agricultural Technology
Corn
Maryland (George Calvert)
Goals of the Lord
Proprietary Rule (Queen Mary)
Ark and Dove
Relationship with Natives
“Act Concerning Religion”
Headright/Tobacco/Civil War
Role of Africans
Turbulent Virginia (Border Disputes)
Sir William Berkeley’s Broken Promises
Transition to an Autocracy
Bacons Rebellion
“Backcountry Gentry” v. “Green Spring”
East Coast/West Coast Thang
Growth of New England:
Religious Repression in England (Church of
England)
Plymouth Plantation
Scrooby Doo
No dice in Holland
William Bradford (Saints and Sinners)
Mayflower Compact
Poor Choices and Domestication
Enclosure
Squanto and Samoset
Thanksgiving
Expansion of New England:
Political Rights on Plymouth Rock
Options for Outcasts
Roger Williams (Providence)
Anne Hutchinson
Antinomianism
Settlers and Natives:
Relationships with Natives
Praying Indians
Abuse of Wild Game
Connection to further native Abuse
Miles Standish
William Bradford
The Puritan Experiment:
Divine Right of Kings
Puritan Life under Charles I
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Utopia
John Winthrop (Carrying Charter)
Political Hub and Privileges
Freemen
Congregational Church
Absence of Hierarchy/Calvin
“City on a Hill”
Theocracy
Pequot War
King Phillip’s War (Metacomet)
Flintlock Musket
The Restoration Colonies:
17th Century
English Civil War
Controversy of Charles I
Charles II
Earl of Shaftesbury
Fundamentalist Constitution
Barbados Connection
Articles of Capitulation
Quakers (George Fox)
“Inner Light”
William Penn
Philadelphia and the Charter of Liberties
Borderlands and Middlegrounds:
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James Oglethorpe
Georgia’s Motivation/Restrictions
Middlegrounds
Evolution of the British Empire:
Navigation Acts and its Three Components
Ship Building
Abduction of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dominion of England (Sir Edmund Andros)
Glorious Revolution
William and Mary
Property Ownership and Anglicanism
Leislerian or anti-Leislerian
John Coode’s Rebellion
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial
America
Background
Colonial Population (On your Own)
Expansion by the Dutch
Middle Passage
“Colonial Jones’s”
“Ladies” and “Gentlemen”
Home life transitions to…
English Class System vs. American Class System
American Dream
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17 Century (5%)
Imagery of the Slave of the 1600’s
Plantation Life (Charles Carroll)
Slave life on Plantations
th
18 Century Slave (Slave Codes)
Huguenots
Huguenots, Palatinate, and Ulster Presbyterians
The Colonial Colonies:
Southern Economy
Boom or Bust (1660) Synthesis
Multiple harvests
Results of Plantation Formation in South
Northern Economic Climate
Saugus Ironworks
Iron Act of 1750
Extractive Industries
Myth of Colonial Independence
Ex. Wax
Triangular Trade (RSS)
Why Triangular trade is significant
The problems with avoiding English trade
Consumerism
Nuclear family
Gullah
Mulatto
Stono Rebellion (Results)
Puritan Community (Government Structure)
Selectmen and Visible saints
Covenant vs. Half-Way Covenant
Primogeniture
Town Expansion and new Opportunities
Witchcraft
Salem
Origins of Paranoia
Cities and Equality: On your Own
Changing Image of God
Religious toleration
Discrepancies amongst Baptists
Anti-Catholic
Jermiads
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”
Old and New Light Ministers
Key Component of the Enlightenment
God is no longer the only answer
Literacy and ex.
Colleges (on your own)
Almanacs
Science in Colonies
Law and Politics
Peter Zenger
Role of Government
Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
Colonial Connection to British in 1750’s
Louisiana
English View of Colonies
French Territory becomes New Middle ground
Dead Period of Relations
Significance of Native Americans during F and E
Friction
English to British Parliament
Growing Crown Colonies and Restrictions
Parliament under George 1 and George 2
How this reflects in attitude towards Colonies
Robert Walpole
Who held the power of the Colonies in England?
Colonial Assemblies and Representatives
Representatives of the Crown
Confidence in Colonial Legislature
Manipulation of the Privy Counsel
Colonial Identity
Involuntary Cohesion
Albany Plan
“One General Government”
President General and Grand Council
Join or Die
The Eve of the 7 Years War
Balance of Power in the Colonies
Reign of Louis 16th in France and Repercussions
Significance of Mississippi
Creoles
Iroquois Confederacy
Seeds of French and English Conflict
Examples
King Georges War
Ohio River Valley
Fort Necessity and Fort Duquesne
French and Indian War
Phases 1, 2, 3
William Pitt
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Peace of Paris
Consequences of the 7 Years war
Commercial vs. Territorial Imperialists
Guadeloupe vs. Canada
Issues with the Drastic British Expansion
George III
First Actions and Characteristics
Ohio River Valley Again
Proclamation of 1763
White Encroachment
Grenville Ministry
Redcoats in Boston
New Sheriff in town…
March 5th 1770
Mutiny Act of 1765
Symbol of Oppression (Paul Revere)
Sugar Act of 1764
Samuel Adams (COC)
Currency Act of 1764
Origins of Revolution
Stamp Act of 1765
Concept of political balance
Paxton Boys
Colonial View of Monarchy
Regulator Movement
English vs. Colonial Law
Battle of Alamance
English vs. Colonial Views of Representation
Postwar Depression
Revolution Bubbles (Gaspee Affair)
Stamp Act Crisis
Tea Act of 1773
Patrick Henry “Trumpet of Sedition”
Daughters of Liberty
Virginia Resolves
Boston Tea Party
James Otis
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
Sons of Liberty
Quebec Act
Marquis of Rockingham
First Continental Congress
Internal Rebellion
5 Plans
Pitt for Rockingham
Conciliatory Propositions
Issues over Mutiny Act of 1765
Lexington and Concord
Dismantling NY Assembly
Townshend Duties
“Ninety-Two”
Colonial Boycotts
Rise of Lord North
Boston Massacre
Chapter 5: The American Revolution
1775
British Blunders
2 Front War for Colonists
Iroquois and the British
Questions of Colonists on Eve of Revolution
Joseph and Mary Brant
Rights of Man
Division of the Confederacy
2nd Continental Congress
Securing Aid Abroad through Winning the Peace
Radical and Moderate Views
Loyalists and their Situation
Olive Branch Petition
Loyalist Plight
Declaration of the Causes and necessity of
Taking up Arms
Role of Anglican Church
Unclear Views of the Colonists at war
Changing View Towards Independence
Prohibitory Work
Common Sense
Preparation for war
Declaration of Independence
“All Men are Created Equal”
Loyalists/Tories
Divided Americans
Articles of Confederation
War Issues for Colonists
Currency
General George Washington
American Advantages
Pacifism
Catholic Church in Colonies
British and the Slaves
Open Resistance
Lemuel Hayes Quote
Churches View of Slavery
Family quarrel
Expansion and Speculation
Proclamation of 1763 as Oppression
Noble Savages
Gnadenheutten, Ohio
Role of Women during War
Women in the Army
Molly Pitcher
Abigail Adams
st
The 1 Phase of the War
nd
The 2 Phase of the War
Judith Sargent Murray
Sexual Autonomy
Patriarchal Structure
War Economy
New Trade Routes
Republicanism
Civic Virtue
“All Men are Created Equal”
Persistent Inequality
Conditions vs. Opportunity
Constitutionalism
Revisions to the Articles of Confederation
Transitions from strong legislation to executive
power
Statute of Religious Liberty
Manumission
Justifications for Slavery in Southern States
Holding a “wolf by the ears”
The Confederation
Postwar Disputes