Colonization 17th CenturyDr. Romero

• 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

• II. Caribbean- West Indies– Model

• Plantation Society -• Labor-

– Slaves – Barbados Slave Code 1661– Indentured Servants

• Quality of Life – – Decadent– Absenteeism

• III. Southern Colonies– Chesapeake

• Jamestown, Virginia, 1607• Problems• Captain John Smith• Starving Time 1609-1610

– Economy• Rolfe & Tobacco• Sandys & Headright• House of Burgesses 1619

– Plantation Society• Land• Labor Force

– Indentured Servants– Slavery

• Weaknesses– Thinly Spread– I crop

– 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

– Restoration Colonies• Land Grant 1663 – Proprietary• North Carolina – Tar • South Carolina – Rice

– Black Majority– Stono Rebellion

– Georgia – Proprietary• Last Colony 1732• Protective Zone• Prohibitions

Ex-slaves sitting in front of a cabin in 1862

The massacre during Nat Turner's Rebellion

• IV. New England– Puritans – Calvinists, Reform– Separtist – Calvinists, disillusioned– Congregationalists – Autonomous– Plymouth 1620– Massachusetts 1629– Society

• Town• Church• Family

– Patriarchal– Children

– 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.

• 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