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 mid-seventeenth 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 mid-seventeenth 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.