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1 Unit Two Lecture Life in the Colonies
US History Unit Two Lecture Life in the Colonies

2 Early Colonies: Chesapeake
Jamestown Virginia Company – 1607 Tobacco Economy Headright System 1619: Representative Gov’t & Slavery Bacon’s Rebellion Whites, Indians, indentured servants, & slavery

3 Early Colonies: Chesapeake
Maryland – 1634 Proprietary colony Act Concerning Religion – 1649 Maryland Toleration Act Christianity (Protestants & Catholics) protected

4 Early Colonies: New England
Massachusetts Plymouth Massachusetts Bay – 1630 “City Upon a Hill”

5 Early Colonies: New England
Dissenters from Massachusetts Connecticut Hartford (Fundamental Orders of CT) New Haven Rhode Island Rogers Williams

6 Restoration Colonies Restoration in England Carolinas
Charles II took the throne from Cromwell Colonization resumed Carolinas Proprietary colonies Differences between northern & southern New York & New Jersey Pennsylvania

7 Borderlands & Middle Ground
Cultural Interactions in these areas Borderlands Areas between different colonies & empires English, French, Spanish Caribbean Sugar and slavery Southwest Spain and France Southeast Spanish threat: Georgia founded as buffer

8 Borderlands & Middle Ground
Figurative space of coexistence between different cultures, particularly European & Indian Marked by Adaptation & Accommodation

9 Colonial Population Nationalities in English Colonies
English, French, Dutch Also African, Scandinavian, German, Scotch-Irish Middle Colonies more ethnically & religiously diverse than New England and southern colonies

10 Colonial Population Labor Force Population Growth Medicine
Indentured Servitude (3/4 of pop in Chesapeake) Slavery Slave codes Population Growth Immigration & Natural Increase Natural increase slower in South, with higher death rate More balanced sex ratio Medicine “humoralism” Family Structure More stable families in New England

11 Colonial Economies Farming in all colonies Differences
South: cash-crop economies Tobacco & rice New England: small farms Middle Colonies: more productive than NE

12 Colonial Economies Emerging Commercial Economy in North Consumerism
Artisans & entrepreneurs Merchant Class Despite obstacles Not exactly “triangular” trade Consumerism Class differences & status “luxury” items became necessities


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