Peroid 2

years

1607–1754

new england colonies

God

MA

NH

RI

CT

Middle colonies

NY

PA

NJ

DE

Chesapeak colonies

MD (maryland)

VA

NC

Southern colonies

plantation farming sugar and coton

slaves

SC

GA

New france goals

trading, not large pop

starving time

ate leather, shoes, belts, people, rats

canabalism

Timeline

jamestown (1607 virginia- chesapeak)

new england next Plymouth 1920 (pilgrims) 1630 (puritan)

pilgrims: seperate from church

puritan: purify church, city on a hill

NE colonies characterisitcs

cold rocky-bad for plantation

family farms, family did =labor not indentured servants/slaves

William Penn

Quaker leader

Pennsylvania founder-refuge for quakers

imprissoned for beliefs

Southern colonies charactersitcs

tropical, long growing season, ideal for plantations

sugar, rice, cotton, indigo

slavery

Middle pasage

jounrey of enslaved africans across atlantic

chained to eacher, diseases, 15% died

took 1-6 months

2 million deaths

bacons rebellion

1676- indentured servants and farmers burn jamestown after governer refusee to allow attacks to Natives

showed uprising of white poor people was dangerous

turned from indutred servants to slaves

praying towns

puritans campaign to convert natives to chrisianity

Metacombs war

1675

military alliance with 2/3 of regions natives, attacked half of english towns

founding of Georgia

asked king to make georgia a utopia, debt relif and new chance at life

silk farmer, failed bc some land fertile some not

middle colonies charactersitcs

breadbasket (food crops, wheats, oats, rye)

ideal for farming(temperate climate)

diverse ethnicity and religion, settled by a range of european migrants

quakers

william penn

quaker religous freedom, founder of pennsylvannia

first to write amending cause in consititon

ideas paved way for democracy

wrote 40+ books

Anne Hutchinson

purtian but challanged puritan beleifs

banished from mass bay colony

feminist

took folowers to RI

Roder williams

founder of RI

seperation of church and state, religous freedom

dictionary for native languages

slavery in colonies

all had slavery

most in west indies but chesapeak and southern had a lot

1619 first slaves in north america

enlightenment

universe governed by natural laws

nature (how your born) vs nurture (how your raised)

before:god governs universe

After: we can predict human nature

Newspapers established

influence idea of american revoltion

great awakening

church response to enlightenment, churches more passionate pastors, open to all people, do community service

george whitfeild: toured, dammed non religous

tension btw new lights and old lights

poor and young began to see they could challange old wealth

mercantilism

limite recource in world-having more=more power

lagre army and navy to protect ships and goods, reliatant on raw materials from colonies