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APUSH unit 2

Key Concept 2.1 —Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.

I. Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers had different economic and imperial goals involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations.

SPANISH

Goals: 

  • Set up large plantations in the Caribbean to produce cash crops to be exported to Europe

  • Expand their land into Southwest United States

  • Spread their Catholic religion to Natives

Colonial Development:

  • Stopped using the encomienda system

  • Use of enslaved Africans on plantations in the Caribbean - only plantation owners lived here - no large Spanish settlements in this area

Relationship w/ Natives:

  • After expanding into present-day New Mexico & using local Puebloans as labor for maize crops - Spaniards faced the Pueblo revolt and lost after being outnumbered - Spain was exiled for 12 years - when they came back they had greater religious tolerance, allowing Puebloans to continue practicing their religion - this resulted in religious syncretism and shaped New Mexican culture

  • Started using African slaves as their primary labor source rather than Natives 

FRENCH/ DUTCH

Goals: 

  • trade with Native Americans - wanted a fur trade monopoly

  • Participate in a mercantilist economy

Colonial Development: 

  • Few large settlements, left a few merchants/ settlers to participate in trade with Natives

  • Quebec founded in 1608 - first permanent settlement

  • Henry Hudson’s expedition led to the establishment of New Amsterdam

  • Dutch gave Dutch West India Company control of the colony for economic and trading purposes 

  • Brought no representative government

  • French and Dutch settlers in British colonies made up 5% of the population by 1775 - mostly included French protestants called Huguenots 

Relationship w/ Natives:

  • Often allied with their trading partners - French allied with the Algonquians and later helped them with their tribal war against the Iroquians 

  • Native American tribes often fought over hunting grounds in order to participate in trade with the French and Dutch

BRITISH

Goals:

  • Number of poor and landless people in Britain increased with a rapid population increase and an economic depression - this was a push factor for these people to have new economic opportunities in the British colonies 

  • Groups like the Separatist and the Puritans wanted the freedom of religion in the Americas after being prosecuted in Britain

  • Extract resources and precious metals to enrich Britain 

  • Joint-stock companies reduced risk and spread profits of migration to the Americas - attracted settlers to the Americas 

Colonial Development:

  • Colonies were either proprietary (under authority of the individual given a charter by the King), royal (under direct control of the King), or corporate (run by joint-stock companies)

  • First colonies, for example, Jamestown, struggled with starvation and conflicts with Native tribes - eventually cultivated tobacco which developed to be a major cash crop export to Europe 

  • Virginia attracted single poor males from Britain to work as indentured servants on tobacco plantations - created a sharp division between the poor laborers and rich plantation owner in Virginia

  • Other colonies such as Plymouth and the New England colonies were colonized by religious groups - continued to attract this religious group from Britain

  • Representative governments - some democratic ideas - different colonies had different degrees of religious tolerance

  • Colonial economy and the type of goods they extracted and traded depended on their environment and labor supply

Relationship w/ Natives:

  • Conflicts with Natives resulted because of British colonial expansion and cultural misunderstanding 

  • Natives and British colonizers had different views on private property rights - Natives thought that owning land meant being able to hunt on it, Britiains believed they could fence in the land the owned and not let anyone on it

  • Metacom’s War - local native tribes allied with the Native revolters and the New Englanders - War ended with the revolters being executed or exiled

  • British colonizers attempted to convert local Native tribes but both groups believed that their religion and culture was the superior one

II. In the 17th century, early British colonies developed along the Atlantic coast, with regional differences that reflected various environmental, economic, cultural, and demographic factors.

CHESAPEAKE 

Environment:

  • Marshy soil & humid climate - not ideal for subsistence farming

  • diseases spread through insectos (yellow fever, malaria) - early settlers died from disease and starvation

Economics:

  • Tobacco was cultivated (thrived in the marshy soil) and became a cash crop/ popular export to Europe 

  • Colonies became small plantations labored by indentured servants and some African slaves

  • Headright system was used to bring indentured servants from England

  • Sharp divide of rich plantation owners and poor indentured servants or small farmers - only rich elites had a say in electing the governor

Culture:

  • Followed the Anglican Church

Demographics:

  • Mostly English people (plantation owners and indentured servants) a few African slaves (only increased after Bacon’s rebellion)

NEW ENGLAND

Environment:

  • Healthier - few disease carriers

Economics:

  • Less large scale agriculture

  • No influx of enslaved Africans or indentured servants

  • Farms produced just enough food to feed their families 

Culture:

  • Puritan - Cotton Mather was a prominent Puritan minister - Puritans believed the Anglican church was too similar to the Catholic church - wanted to “purify” the church of England 

  • Hoped that by setting an example of a righteous society in the Americas, they could persuade the Anglican church to adopt their religion 

  • Strict religious intolerance - cancelled Christmas, anyone who questioned Puritan ideologies were forced to leave or be executed 

Demographics:

  • 14,000 Puritans migrated from England to the Americans in the 1630s - GREAT MIGRATION

  • Egalitarian - less variance among classes

  • More families 

MIDDLE

Environment:

  • Ideal environment for cereal crops and timber - shipbuilding

  • Good location for trade

Economics:

  • Proprietary colonies - independently owned - land first granted to William Penn by the King of England

  • Industrial workers and artisans

  • Not fond of slavery

  • Middle sized farms

  • Mixed economy for farming and industry 

  • Mixed class wealth distribution 

Culture:

  • Quakerism - people are equal (radical for the time period)

  • Penn extended his religious tolerance to all people

  • Religiously diverse

Demographics:

  • Ethnically diverse

SOUTHERN

Environment:

Economics:

  • Sugar, rice, tobacco, and indigo plantations - sugar became a profitable export

  • Sugar cultivation is labor intensive - enslaved Africans were imported

  • Rice cultivation took over sugar in the Carolinas

  • Proprietary colonies - Maryland & Georgia founded for altruistic reasons 

  • Georgia contained debt prisoners from overcrowded prisons so they could work off their debt

Culture:

  • Followed Anglican church

  • Maryland had greater religious tolerance (anyone who believed in Jesus)

Demographics:

  • Colonist, enslaved Africans, debt prisoners

III. Competition over resources between European rivals and American Indians encouraged industry and trade and led to conflict in the Americas.

PUEBLO REVOLT

  • Spain expanded into Southwest United States and forced the local Peubloans to convert to Catholicism and be laborers for Spanish maize crops

  • Missionaries built churches 

  • Pope’s rebellion killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 South

  • Spain returned in 1692 and regained control of the area - this produced religious syncretism 

  • Spain decreased the encomienda system

  • Pueblo customs influenced New Mexican culture

BACON’S REBELLION

  • Governor Berkley of Virginia didn’t want to induce conflict with Natives (no response to concerns from indentured servants) - tension with Natives because they thought their pigs were being stolen

  • Indentured servants weren’t receiving their promised land

  • Bacon put together a rebellion and they destroyed multiple towns - rebellion slowed down and stopped when Bacon died

  • Shift away from indentured servitude to the use of enslaved Africans as laborers

METACOM’S WAR

  • Cultural misunderstandings between the New Englishmen and the Natives about private property rights - English would fence off land from the Natives from hunting there

  • English livestock roamed on, and ate Natives’ crops

  • Native tribes divided, some siding with the English, and others with the rebellion - allies resulted from trade relationships and common enemies 

  • Both groups believed their own culture and race was superior to the others

  • Division among Natives in competition for hunting grounds

  • English won the war and executed rebels

Key Concept 2.2 — The British colonies participated in political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encouraged both stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to Britain’s control.

I.Transatlantic commercial, religious, philosophical, and political exchanges led residents of the British colonies to evolve in their political and cultural attitudes as they became increasingly tied to Britain and one another.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

  • Movement in literature and philosophy

  • John Locke - reasoned that while the government is supreme its has to follow laws honoring basic rights of people because they are human - citizens have a right and obligation to revolt against governments that don’t meet or protect their rights

  • Rationale and principles for the American Revolution 

  • UNITED AND DIVIDED ENGLAND AND COLONIES

THE GREAT AWAKENING

  • Beginning decades of 18th century

  • Protestant churches tended to be long intellectual discourses and portrayed God as a benign creator of a perfectly ordered universe 

  • Great Awakening was a movement characterized by fervent expressions of religious feeling among masses of people - strongest during the 1730s and 1740s

  • Each individual who expressed deep patience could be saved by God’s grace - this idea most influence NEW ENGLAND

  • Emotionalism became a common part of Protestand services 

  • George Whitefield - came from England to the colonies in 1739 - delivered rousing sermons that stressed that God would only save those who openly professed belief in Jesus Christ 

  • Less dependence on ministers 

  • Caused division within churches - some supported teaching of “New Lights” and others of “Old Lights”

  • Denominations competed with each other and called for SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

  • Regardless of social status or origin, the American colonists shared a common experience - increased nationalism and American culture 

  • Changed the way people viewed authority - the people could make greater political decisions without depending on the authority of elites 

  • UNITED AND DIVIDED ENGLAND AND COLONIES - political ideas based on the ideas of the Great Awakening prompted the colonies wanting independence from a higher authority 

NAVIGATION ACTS

  • First of the Navigation Acts passed in 1681 

    • aimed to control terms of trade between Britain and its colones

    • British crown could reap the custom duties on the imported goods

  • Frequent changes in British government led to changes in the colonial relationship 

    • William and Mary released or eliminated James II’s coercive measures

  • 1720s-1760s - salutary neglect - British officials overlooked colonists’ violations of the Navigation Acts

  • 1760s - King George III attempted to reassert control over colonial trade

  • DIVIDED ENGLAND AND COLONIES

CONSUMER REVOLUTION

  • As colonies developed, arts and literature from Europe gained popularity among rich plantation owners in the South and merchants in the North

    • Georgian style of Londone used in colonial homes, churches, and public buildings

    • Benjamin was a popular writer in the 18th century

    • First colonial colleges were sectarian (promoted the doctrines of a particular religious group) - Puritans founded Harvard in 1636

  • New and ideas in the colonies circulated by means of a postal system and local printing press

  • UNITED ENGLAND AND COLONIES

II. Like other European empires in the Americas that participated in the Atlantic slave trade, the English colonies developed a system of slavery that reflected the specific economic, demographic, and geographic characteristics of those colonies.

  • Royal African Company

  • Created by English monarch Charles II

  • Trade enslaved people and African goods

  • Monopoly on slave trade until 1689 when English merchants engage and increase the number of slaves transported

  • Stono Rebellion - South Carolina - 1739

    • Literate enslaved man named Jemmy led a large group of enslaved people against white colonists killing several before a militia stopped them

    • Resulted in South Carolina passing a new slave code in 1740 - imposed new limits of enslaved people’s behaviors

  • New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741

    • 13 fires broke out & white said that enslaved people did it as part of a revolt

    • 200 enslaved people were interrogated and arrested

    • Government executed 17 enslaved people, and 70 enslaved people were sent to the West Indies\

**PANIC AMONG WHITE COLONISTS SPURRED VIOLENCE UPON THE ENSLAVED POPULATION

 

ECONOMIC

  • Most slaves were transported to Barbados of the Caribbean to work on large sugar plantations - intensive and dangerous labor

  • Southern colonies and Chesapeake colonies (after Bacon’s rebellion) had the most slave labor because of their plantation agriculture and the decreasing use of indentured servants as laborers

  • New England had the least slave labor because of their lack of large-scale agriculture and family farming

  • Outside of the South, African Americans worked a wider range of jobs including bricklayer or blacksmith - this is because these states were more industrial 

  • Every colony passed laws the discriminated against African Americans and limited their rights and opportunities 

DEMOGRAPHIC

  • By 1775, African American population made up 20 percent of the colonial population 

  • 90 percent lived in the Southern colonies