1. Colonization 17 Century
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Dr. Romero

2. • I. Richard Hakluyt’s Vision
– New world could serve
– Early attempts failed
– Motivation
• Economics- land, status, world
• Political – Stuarts v. Parliament
• Religious
• Personal
– Types of Colonies
• Royal Colony
• Joint Stock Company
• Proprietary Colony

3. • II. Caribbean- West Indies
– Model
• Plantation Society • Labor– Slaves – Barbados Slave Code 1661
– Indentured Servants
• Quality of Life –
– Decadent
– Absenteeism

4. • III. Southern Colonies
– Chesapeake
• Jamestown, Virginia, 1607
• Problems
• Captain John Smith
• Starving Time 1609-1610
– Economy
• Rolfe & Tobacco
• Sandys & Headright
• House of Burgesses 1619

5. – Plantation Society
• Land
• Labor Force
– Indentured Servants
– Slavery
• Weaknesses
– Thinly Spread
– I crop

6. – Maryland – Proprietary
• Lord Baltimore
• Headright system
– Quitrent
• Toleration Act 1648
• Plantation Society
– Riverfront plantations
– No Towns
– Labor
» Indentured Servants
» Slavery
– Weaknesses
» Thinly spread
» I crop

7. – Restoration Colonies
• Land Grant 1663 – Proprietary
• North Carolina – Tar
• South Carolina – Rice
– Black Majority
– Stono Rebellion
– Georgia – Proprietary
• Last Colony 1732
• Protective Zone
• Prohibitions
The massacre during Nat Turner's Rebellion
Ex-slaves sitting in front of a cabin in 1862

8. • IV. New England
– Puritans – Calvinists, Reform
– Separtist – Calvinists, disillusioned
– Congregationalists – Autonomous
– Plymouth 1620
– Massachusetts 1629
– Society
• Town
• Church
• Family
– Patriarchal
– Children

9. – Expansion
• Dissenters
– Roger Williams – R.I.
– Anne Hutchinson
• Other Colonies
– Connecticut 1662
– New Hampshire 1677
• Decline of Influence
• Halfway Covenant
• V. Middle Colonies
– Dutch Beginnings 1609
– New Netherlands captured 1664
• N.Y. & N.J.

10. • Quaker Influence
– Quaker Origins – Fox 1640s
– Beliefs
– Pennsylvania 1681 – Proprietary
• William Penn
– Purchased Delaware 1682
• Success
• Problems
• VI. 17th Century Crises
– Virginia – Bacon’s Rebellion 1676
– Salem Witch Trials 1691
– Reaction to Glorious Revolution
• Massachusetts – Andros deposed
• New York – Leisler
• Maryland - Coode