→ Virginia

• Planters

• Tabacco

• Land/Ports

1. G.P

2. Merchants

3. Freeman

4. Servants

5. Africans

6. Natives

Servants & Freeman were low priority on education and lived in small towns

Roots of slavery

• Atlantic slave trade-Portugal/Spanish/English(British)

  • Sugar

  • Tobacco

• 5% - African Slaves -American Colonies

  • Brazil/West Indies

VA-HOB

Pre 1670-Africans (Indentured Servants)

Post 1670- Slaves = Property Africans

Identity

→ South (High Pop)

→ Cultural Influence

• Creole Culture (West Africa Hispanic America)

→ South Carolina (60%) Africans

→ V.A (40%)

→ Stono Rebellion

• slave recent

• race laws (more strict)

• no weapons

• no horses

• Literate

→ N.E (Less than 40%)

Economic Competition

Merchantillism

• Econ policy

• Strength lies in Wealth

1660- Navigation Acts

• Enumerated goods

  • Tobacco, Indigo, and Sugar

• Customs Agents

  • Courts (America)

• Colonies dependnet on England

Civil War in V.A

• Post 1660s

  • Tobacco crop/depressed

  • N. Bacon (England)

    • desires to be an Elite

    • Native Defense

• 1675- Royal Gov (W. Berkeley)

  • Raise Militia

  • Jamestown Destoryed

  • Revolt dies w/ N. Bacon

Conflict in Mass

• 1675 - King Philips War

• 1678 - New England vs Natives

  • Metacomet/ King Philips

• 1684 - James II (Exiled)

  • Canceling Mass Charter

  • Elective Assembley

  • Royal Gov- E. Andros

• 1691 - Charter Restored

  • Salem Witch trials

Witchcraft

• Salem Village (1691)

  • Problems w/ Mother Country

  • Native Violence

  • Young Girls

    • Visions

    • Behavior

    • Demons/spirits

    • Physical Sym

    • Prominent familes

  • Accused Witches

  • O. W Ted/ Mathew’s Bros

  • 20 ppl excuted

  • 19 ppl hanged (older women)

  • 1 pressed (outsiders)

  • Causes ?

Diversity

• 1770-1750

• Pop growth

  • 1770 (250k)

  • 1750 (2 mil)

  • 1775 (8 mil)

• Natural Birth Rates

• Immigration

Forced Mirgration

• 1718 - Transportation Acts

  • Jails (Overcrowded)

  • Sent to New World/ America

  • 50,000 settlers

Backcountry

• Rural colonies Interior

• Forming diffcult/ Natives

• Scotch

  • Irish

  • Penns

    • Poor

    • Squatter

• Germans

  • Lang

  • Violence

  • Resources

  • Farming

• Native

Spanish Borderlands

• MX - 1521

• Mid 1500’s

  • Southwest

  • Southeast

• St. Augustine

  • 1590 - Florida

• El Paso

  • 1620

• Settlement: Mission System

  • Church/ Precidio

  • Low pop

  • Conversion

• Culture

  • Lang

  • Food

  • Cath

  • Arch

Great Awakening

• Mass Religion Revival

• Americanization of Christianity

• 1730’s

  • Mass

  • J. Edwards

• 1770s

  • Preachers

  • “Emotions”

  • “Fear”

  • Outside

  • Baptisms

  • Everyone is welcome

  • G. Whitefield

• 2 factions

  • Old Lights

    • Traditional

    • Against G.A

  • New Lights

    • Supporters of G.A

Popular Religion

• Expansion of education

• Need Ministers

• New Lights - Colleges

  • Brown

  • Darthmouth

  • Rutgers

  • Unifying

  • Columbia

• National Event

Governing

• 13 colonial assembles

  • elected

  • taxes

• Voting

  • Males

  • 18-21

  • Property/Land

• Governors (weak) Royal

  • King

  • Defense

  • Day to Day

Wars

• Late 1600’s/Early 1200’s

  • Canada Border

  • French/Native

• Queen Anne’s War

• King George War

• 1755 - Albany Congress

  • B. Franklin

    • Albany Plan

      • 13 a single congress

      • Defense

      • Tax

      • Fails

Seven Years War/French and Indian War

• Ohio Valley

  • Pittsburgh

  • George Washington

• 1756-1763

• W. Pitt

  • Resources

• Quebec 1759 - “Battle of plains

• J. Wolfe

• Montealm

1763- Peace of Paris

• Canada - British

1763 - Proclaimation Line

• No settling App. Mt