Breaking Away

→ English Civil War (1640-1649)

1215 (Magna Carta)

• Parliament (Tax) vs Monarchy

• Parliament (Wins)

Charles I (dies)

O. Cromwell

• Lord Protector

→ Restoration (1660)

• Monarchy (Charles I)

→ Glorious Revolution (Peaceful) (1688)

• James II (Exiled)

→ 1689

• Williams & Mary

→ New Constitution

Virginia

→ 1607: Jamestown

• Commercial (Business)

→ Virginia Company/ Joint Stock Camp/ Less Risk

• Gold & Silver

• Furs

• Tobacco

→ Troubles (waters, native violence, unrest)

→ 1609-1610: Winter “Starving Time”

→ “The Weed”

• Staple Crop

  • Too Strong

• J. Rolfe

  • Mild Tobacco

→ 1618-1619

• House of Burgesses (First Self-Gov)

  • Only White Men could vote

  • Property

→ Headwright

• 50 acres

• Free Land

• Pay passage (expensive)

→ Ind. Servants

• “White Slavery”

• Poor white/ London

• 3-7 years

• Labor

Maryland

→ 1630’s: Calvert Family

• Lord Baltimore

• Catholics (English) Haven

• Open Policy/Fedual system

• Protestants majority

• Tabocco

  • Ind. Servants

“Great Migration”

→ New England, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut

→ 1620’s: Fort Orange/Albany

• Fur trade

→ Ft. Amsterdam/ NYC

• 1664: British Fleet

  • Peaceful takeover

• Farmland

  • Wheat

  • Grains

• Trade Hub

Pennsylvania

• Proprietary

  • One family

  • One person

• William Penn

  • Father Naval Hero

  • Religion: Quakers

    • Est. G. Fox

• Pacifists (Non-violent)

  • “Inner Light” (soul)

    • Piece of divine

• Population growth (increase)

• open policy (monotheism)

• Wheat

• Trade hub

Carolinas

• Crops grown (sugar and rice)

→ Early 1700’s: A.A Cooper

→ Goals: Debtor’s heaven

• Overcrowded jails

→ Low pop in Barbados

• Sugar

→ 1729: North/South Carolina

Georgia

→ 1732: J. Oglethorpe

→ Buffer Zone

→ Strict Laws

→ Ban Slavery & Ban Alcohol (Got rid of these conditions)