- 1. The English in North America
2. American Colonies - Chapter 7 Chesapeake Colonies Chesapeake
Colonies
- In both Chesapeake colonies, Virginia & Maryland, had to
share power with the wealthiest & most ambitious colonists
- They refused to pay taxes unless authorized by their own
elected representatives
- The wealthiest planters dominated the local government
- Since the Chesapeake had only two towns, Jamestown and St.
Marys city,the colonists relied on the counties for their local
governments
- Political Hierarchy: distant king, governor council, county
court, parish vestry, family household little commonwealth
- Sex ratio was 74% male, 10% female, so men never found
wives
3. American Colonies - Chapter 7 Chesapeake Colonies Chesapeake
Colonies
- Chesapeake demanded too much labor from too few colonists
- English servants composted at least 3/4 if the emigrants to the
Chesapeake,about 90,000 of the 120,000
- The servants were transported as unwanted orphans or criminals
punished for vagrancy or theft
- 1648 Chesapeake became healthier & many servants lived
longer due to new plantations expanding upstream with fresh
water
- Frontier conditions enabled labor to create new income &
assets, & the farms & farmers were prospering at a faster
rate
- Instead of establishing a great land of opportunity, the
Chesapeakes age of social mobility led to a plantation society of
wealth & poverty
4. American Colonies - Chapter 7 Chesapeake Colonies Chesapeake
Colonies
- In Virginia, 1676, the rebellion erupted with angry freedman
wanting landowning independence
- The rebellion founded Nathaniel Bacon as the leader
- Attacks & violence on the Indians was is defiance against
the governor
- Bacon promised common planters and servants freedom if they
joined the rebellion to defeat Berkeley
- When the rebellion ended, the monarch agreed that the elite was
unworthy of its power and was determined to create an alliance with
common & great planters
5. American Colonies - Chapter 8 New England New England
- Law demanded that everyone support the official Church of
England with taxes & attendance
- English monarch appointed & commanded a hierarchy of two
archbishops, twenty-six bishops, & 8,600 parish clergy in
England & Wales
- Puritans tried to convert & urge people to seek God &
practice his values by reading the bible
- With the king Charles I growing power, many Puritans migrated
to New England across the Atlantic
6. American Colonies - Chapter 8 New England New England
- Puritan emigrants followed French & English mariners,
fisherman, & fur traders
- The first Puritan emigration consisted of 102 Separatists known
as the Pilgrims
- The great migration began under the leadership of John
Winthrop
- In Boston, Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay
Colony
- With 20,000 of the regions 33,000 inhabitants in 1660,
Massachusetts remained the most populous, influential, and powerful
of New England Colonies
- In 1691, four colonies remained: Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, & New Hampshire
7. American Colonies - Chapter 8 New England New England
- Many Puritans sought a distant refuge, where they could live
apart from sinners & from the supervision of persecuting
bishops
- John Winthrop exhorted his fellow colonists to make
Massachusetts a City upon a Hill, an inspirational set of reformed
churches conspicuous to the mother country
- On voyages across the Atlantic, close quarters & proximity
to death gave a new intensity to the daily prayers & religious
exercise that kept up the passengers spirits
- With the rite of passage, shared hardships, fear, &
services, it strengthened the religious purpose & common bonds
of the emigrants
- Although New England wasnt the wealthiest colony, it was the
healthiest, most populous, & most egalitarian in the
distribution of property
8. American Colonies - Chapter 9 Puritans & Indians Puritans
& Indians
- Southern New England Indians possessed cultural, linguistic
affinities, but lacked political unity
- Natives highly productive horticulture supplied most of their
diet
- With fire, the Indians sustained & shaped a forest that
suited their needs
- Indian women did most of the laboring, while men leisured
- Indians acquired few material possessions, & they shared
what they had
- Compared with the colonists, the Indians demanded less from
their nature, investing less labor in, and extracting less energy
& matter from their environment
9. American Colonies - Chapter 9 Puritans & Indians Puritans
& Indians
- New English called this the bloodiest Indian war in their
history
- During summer & fall of 1675, Indian rebels assailed 52 of
the regions 92 towns, destroying 12
- Puritans sought to kill the Indians, each one manifesting the
resurgent power of the Puritan God
- In 1676, desperate colonial leaders could not win without the
assistance of their Indian allies
- the Indian resistance collapsed & they surrendered as they
ran out of food & ammunition
10. American Colonies - Chapter 9 Puritans & Indians
Puritans & Indians
- Rather than treat their captives as prisoners of war, the
Puritan victors defined the Indians as traitors, executing the
chiefs & enslaving others for sale
- Puritans insisted the colonists needed to shed blood to
alienate themselves from Indian ways, thoughts & bodies
- Natives labored for small wages on farms & sailing
ships
- Puritans returned to rebuild their burned & ravaged
homes