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US AP HISTORY
• Bell Work:• 1. What is a Utopic society?• 2.What were some of the English motivations for
settling in the New World?• 3.How did the distance across the Atlantic help
lead to a rather hands off approach to the growth of the new colonies?
A NEW HOME IN A NEW LANDENGLISH COLONIZATION 1603-89
Overview: •New World as a homeland•Motives – Economic and Religious•Free English Institutions
UTOPIA - 1516
Ideal Society Sir Thomas Moore
Sir Walter Raleigh
Croatoan
ROANOKE ISLAND - 1587
JOINT STOCK COMPANY
• Pool of investors to stake claims in the new world utilizing stock• Two joint stock companies formed and granted
land grants by James I.• Virginia Company- Southern Virginia (Jamestown)• Plymouth Company- Northern Virginia (Mass. Bay
Colony)
• Captain John Smith• Powhatan Indians
(Tobacco)• John Rolfe • Pocahontas
1607 – JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA
JAMESTOWN CONTINUED
• Hardships- water, lack of discipline, “starving time”• Edwin Sandys (sands)- private ownership and
representative government• House of Burgesses • Headrights (trip paid- 50 acres) vs. indentured
servitude… • Leads to stratified society- poor vs. rich• Defense issues- attacks by the Powhatans
An 1873 lithograph depicting the expedition against Nemasket led by Standish and guided by Hobbamock
Pilgrim Separatists William Bradford Mayflower Compact 1st Written
Constitution (Civil, Body, Politics)
Miles Standish (Military Support)
1620 - PLYMOUTH
John Winthrope
o Puritans – John Winthrop
o “The Great Migration” (20,000 people within 10 years)
1630 – MASSACHUSETTS BAY
1636 – RHODE ISLAND
• Roger Williams: banished for religious beliefs-” land purchase from Indians, no punishment for religious beliefs
• Anne Hutchinson : Ideas reinterpreted and must leave to Rhode Island (Antinomianism)
• Personal relationship with God
1636 - CONNECTICUT
THOMAS HOOKER
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECT ICUT (CONST ITUT ION) - BLUE PR INT FOR C IV IL GOVERNMENT (SOME MEN COULD VOTE)
• Lord Baltimore & Catholics
• Protestants’ Toleration an is overwhelmed
• Oyster War (Virginia from Maryland shoreline to the north)
1634 - MARYLAND
MARYLAND’S CATHOLIC COLONY
• Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)… friends with James I• Openly Catholic- sponsors a Catholic colony- his
son creates the colony but must appease Protestants to survive.• English Civil War almost divides the colony but
the “Act concerning Religion” pushed religious tolerance
1663 – NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA
Anthony Cooper… with support from John LockeEstablishes an aristocracy and
stratified society.NoblesSerfs – Slaves for LifeDivisions between the North and
South will lead to dividing the colony.
James, Duke of York Seized from the
Dutch New Institutes Navigation Act 1663
1664 – NEW YORK
William Penn (converted Quaker) Quakers
“Asylum for all” Proprietary Colony
Some challenge to Penn’s power- agrees to Charter of liberty
Freest Natural Place
1681 - PENNSYLVANIA
• James Oglethorpe• Prison, debtors
colony.• Buffer zone against
the Spanish
1732 - GEORGIA
ECONOMIC MERCANTILIST