2. “Rights of Englishmen,” Magna Carta (1215)
ď‚—Idea that king was subject to rule of law
ď‚—All persons should enjoy security & prosperity
ď‚—Reign of King Charles I (1625-1649)
ď‚—Dissolved Parliament from 1629-1640, ruled as an
absolute monarch
ď‚—Taxes w/o consent, edging towards Catholicism, arresting
political foes
ď‚—English Civil War (1642-1649)
ď‚—Charles caught & beheaded
ď‚—Roundhead (supporter of Parliament) Oliver Cromwell put
in power (1651-1658)
ď‚—Cromwell dies & eventually Charles II becomes king (1660)
ď‚—Known as Stuart Restoration
3. Between 1640 & 1660—New ideas of freedom
ď‚—John Milton--Freedom of speech & press
ď‚—Increased religious toleration
ď‚—Proposals for a written constitution
ď‚—Even proposals of communal land ownership
All Englishmen were ruled by a king, but “he rules
over free men”
The British empire was the world’s guardian of liberty
4. ď‚—Reign King Charles II
(1660-1685)
ď‚—Son of King Charles I
ď‚—4 colonies created
during his reign
ď‚—1. Carolina
ď‚—2. New York
ď‚—3. New Jersey
ď‚—4. Pennsylvania
5. ď‚—Granted to 8
proprietors in 1663
ď‚—Headright system
ď‚—Religious freedom to
all Christians
ď‚—Representative
assembly
ď‚—Charles Town est. in
1680
7. ď‚—Charles II grants land to
brother, Duke of York
(1664)
ď‚—Land between CT & DE
Rivers
ď‚—Already controlled by
Dutch
ď‚—English force Dutch to
surrender (1664)
ď‚—Colony of great diversity
ď‚—30K people by 1685
ď‚—Populated Hudson R.
Valley
ď‚—NYC
NY’s border once
extended into Delaware
River Valley, but Duke
sold it to 2 friends
ď‚—Sir John Berkeley & Sir
George Cateret
ď‚—Became royal colony in
1702
ď‚—Place of diversity
ď‚—Mostly small farmers
**Existed as East & West
Jersey 1674-1702**
NY NJ
8. ď‚— New Amsterdam, 1682, by Nicholas Visscher (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
9. ď‚—Quakers of England sought religious freedom &
sought an American colony all to themselves
ď‚—King Charles II was in debt to William Penn
ď‚—Paid him in land, between NY & MD
Named Pennsylvania, “Penn’s Woods”
ď‚—Est. 1681
Philly est. in 1682=“Brotherly Love”
ď‚—Colony prospered
ď‚—Mild climate & fertile soil
ď‚—Well-planned
ď‚—Immigrants from all over Europe
ď‚—Delaware was carved out of southern PA in 1703
12. ď‚—How did the Stuart Restoration affect those colonies
already est. in America? How did it affect attitudes
about founding more settlements?
ď‚—What sort of social order took root in Carolina?
ď‚—What beliefs & practices characterized the Quakers, &
how did their influence make PA a unique colony?