1. The 13 Colonies

2. Vocabulary Colony Indentured Servants Joint Stock Company Plantation
Charter (1st definition)
Salutary Neglect (p51)
Compact
Triangle Trade
Proprietary Colony
Middle Passage (p443)
Royal Colony
Mercantilism
Religious Dissenters
Repeal
Puritan
Delegates
Pilgrims
Independence

3. America: A British Colony
Salutary Neglect – British government left us alone for almost 200 years and Americans began governing themselves (relaxed enforcement for continued loyalty)
British citizens left to settle in America – government & laws were set up similar to Britain but because Britain was so far away citizens began governing themselves

4. Class Discussion Question: Would you follow the your parent’s rules if they were out of town? What would you do different?

5. Bringing English Heritage to America
A colony is a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.
English colonists in America remained loyal subjects of England. They accepted common law and expected the same rights they enjoyed in England.
In the 1600’s and 1700’s England was starting to establish colonies in the Americas for economic purposes

6. English Colonies Unrest in England
King Charles I insisted that people should worship his way
Puritans- member of an English religious group
The Great Migration
Great Migration- Puritans left in 1630s to the Americas because of persecution.
The leader of the Great Migration was John Winthrop.

7. Massachusetts Bay Colony – established by the Puritans
Commonwealth - a community in which people work together for the whole.
Winthrop was the governor of the colony.
Settlers had a supposed “agreement” with God to have a holy city.

8. Challenges to Puritans
Dissenter- someone who challenges the generally accepted views of a Church or society.
Puritans got mad at William Penn (dissenter who founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers) because he said the King had no right to sell Indians land.
Quakers faced Persecution
Quakers believed that you found God through your soul and that neither the Bible nor ministers were needed.
Quakers were hanged and tortured for their beliefs.

9. Types of Government in Colonial America
2 Systems of government formed:
House of Burgesses - Virginia
Jamestown – established 1607
Mayflower Compact – Massachusetts
Plymouth Colony – established 1620
Both are examples of Locke’s Social Contract Theory
They had little power, but were important because it was the beginning of self-government in colonial America

10. Mayflower Compact – Massachusetts
Plymouth Colony – established 1620
Direct democracy
Members signed the compact
Still active today in New England in the form of Town Hall meetings

11. Mayflower Compact
"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."

12. Colonial Governments
By 1733 all 13 colonies had established governments
All had a governor & legislature
Most legislatures were bicameral (2 houses)
Colonists began to separate themselves from England & rule themselves

13. New England Colonies

14. New England Economy based on shipping, fishing, and timber.
Colonial New England Towns
New England farmers lived in towns and also worked in fields.
Each town had a meetinghouse where they made laws and determine fees for workers.
The New England Way
The meetinghouse was also used for church services, stricter than today.

15. Middle Colonies

16. Middle Colonies New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Delaware
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn for Quakers
Would become place of freedom for all religions
Known as the “Bread Colonies” for production of wheat and other grains
Farming, lumber, and furs key to these colonies

17. Southern Colonies

18. Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia
Georgia was a colony originally for common criminals, debtors and poor people. Used as a buffer for other colonies from Spanish and Native American attacks
Tobacco was cash crop at first and cotton wouldn’t be key until the early 1800s
Large plantations and slavery ruled the South

19. King George III