Chapters 2&3

Review

Southern Colonies

● English hoped to follow Spain’s example of finding great wealth in the New World

● Influenced financing and founding of the Southern Colonies

● Used indentured servants and slaves○ Created a pattern of race relations that would

shape North American experience

English Success!!

● Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)● How did this impact the colonization of

the New World?

Joint Stock Companies

● Virginia Company received a charter from King James I to settle the New World○ Looking for gold

Jamestown cont.

● Settled in 1607● Started with 100

○ -40 along the journey○ Many more died of hunger and disease in the

first year

● Finally worked with Native Americans for survival

● Still, only 60 (of 400) survived “The Starving Time”

Virginia

● Early settlers had been exposed to tobacco by the N.A.○ Perfected the growing and sent back to

England○ “Single Crop”

■ Drained the soil■ Spawned the use of slaves in America

Plantation Colonies

○ MD, VA, NC, SC, GA○ Devoted to exporting commercial

agriculture products■tobacco■Rice

Northern Colonies

● Protestants to Plymouth○ Puritans wanted a “more pure” form of

Protestantism○ “Separatists”= Pilgrims ○ Pilgrims to Plymouth (1620)

Mass. Bay Colony

● Formed by non-separatist Puritans○ Secured a royal charter

● John Winthrop○ First governor

● Very successful colony○ “We shall be as a city upon a hill”○ Believed they had a covenant with God

Problems in Paradise

● Anne Hutchinson○ A holy life was no sure sign of salvation○ If you were truly saved, then you didn’t need

to follow man’s laws.■ Banished to Rhode Island

● Roger Williams○ Condemned the Bay Colony for taking N.A.’s

land w/out just compensation■ Also banished to R.I.

Dominion of New England

● Created by royal authority● Tried to bolster colonial defense in the

event of a war w/ the N.A.● Designed to make the English

Navigation Laws more efficient

Glorious Revolution

● England de-throned the Catholic James II and enthroned Protestant William III and his wife Mary

● Dominion of New England collapsed● Colonists challenged the crown● “Salutary Neglect”

○ Laws were only weakly enforced.

Pennsylvania

● Quakers● Much more outspoken than the

Puritans● Refused military service● William Penn

○ Created a colony for Quakers ○ No taxes supported a state church○ religious tolerance○ Quaker settlements spread to New Jersey