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New EnglandNames ofColonies:

 

New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut                             

Types ofSettlement

Charter, Royal, Self-Governing NH (Mass. Puritans, some dissenters) Mass. (Pilgrims/Puritans – dissenters from Engl. – Mayflower Compact – all agreed to “common consent” – one gov’t to govern them) R.I. – (Roger Williams – dissenter from Boston – Religious Tolerance and Separation of Church and State) Conn. – (Thomas Hooker – Fundamental Orders - a Constitution – est. free consent of the people)  

 Churches

Puritan/Congregational

 First Jewish Synagogue-Newport(R.I.) *Half-Way Covenant  

 Economy

 Lumber/Timber  *Shipbuilding (how?)  *Fishing Trading/Shipping Ports – Boston, Portsmouth, Newport, New Haven

* Naval Stores

* Rum  *Slave Trade Grain/Cattle Furs/Skins –where?

 Nat’l Origin

England  

 Education

 “Public Education” (why?) “Ivy League” N.H. – Dartmouth Mass – Harvard R.I. – Brown Conn - Yale

Labor/Slavery

 Where would we

find slaves in N.E.?

Agriculture

Port cities – manufacturing –

allowed in a colony?

MiddleNames ofColonies: New York

Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware                           

Types of Settlement

Charter, Royal, Self-GoverningNY – (Dutch-New Amsterdam – Peter Stuyvesant, Gov. Taken by Charles I 1664, named for Duke of York – James, brother of Charles – James II)NJ – (first two separate –East & West Jersey- colonies, united 1702)PA –William Penn est. in 1682 as a refuge for Quakers -land taken from NY as a “gift”(debt owed to Penn was paid) from the Duke of York. Penn paid the Natives well for the land) Del – (Three southern counties of PA, granted separation in 1704 as New Sweden  

 Churches

 Dutch Reformed “Quakers”/Society of “Friends” – the “Inner Light” *Pacifism *Testifying rather than preaching French Huguenot German Reformed (Pennsylvania “Dutch”- deutsch) German Baptist-Mennonite/Amish Anglican Methodist  

 Economy

  Agriculture – Cattle & Grain  Tobacco  Furs/Skins Ironworks Trading/ShippingPorts – New York, Philadelphia, & Wilmington DE – southern NJ Shipbuilding    

 Nat’l Origin

 Holland/Netherlands EnglandScotch-Irish Germany France Sweden

 Education

 Ivy League NY-Columbia(King’s College) NJ – Princeton PA – Penn Public Education?Literacy high amongst the wealthier/landed Illiteracy high among the servant/working class  

Labor/Slavery

Head wright System - Indentured Servitude Quakers and Slaves Landed vs. servants See Chesapeake Bay handout

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Types of Settlement

Charter, Royal, Self-Governing MD – James Calvert-Lord Baltimore, then Maryland (both Henrietta Marie – wife of Charles I and Mary Tudor)Toleration Act allowed Catholics to practice their faith – but Puritans became dominant later) VA – Jamestown – “profit motive” NC & SC – originally Province of Carolina with the southern portion more dominant – separated in 1729

Georgia – est. by James Oglethorpe as a colony for worthy debtors - "Not for ourselves, but for others,"– a social experiment with individuals indentured initially, then, released would have a stake in the colony. Initially slavery was illegal.  

 Churches

 Anglican Methodist Presbyterian  Baptist  Roman Catholic

 Economy

 Slave –economy Few Ports – Baltimore, Charles Towne, & southern VA, central coastal NC Trading & Shipping Agriculture – Tobacco Rice & Indigo (?) Cattle & Grain Furs & SkinsLumber & Timber   

 Nat’l Origin

England * Scotch-Irish Scotland Africa – various “nations” – non Christians could be enslaved. Germany      

 Education

 William & Mary – a Royal College  Public Education?Literacy high amongst the wealthier/landed Illiteracy high among the servant/working class

Labor/

Slavery Head wright System – Indentured Servitude Slavery – introduced by Dutch traders. Some of the first black slaves were given their freedom.