1. Changes in Europe 1300-1500 Consolidation of national monarchies
Growth of towns
Renaissance values
Search for the wealth of the east

2. Expansion in the 1500’s
Dias, Da Gama, Columbus
Columbian Exchange

3. The Reformation Luther and Calvin England and the Spanish Armada
Holland

4. New France Furs and exploration, not settlement Rise of the Iroquois
Mapping and exploration Quebec to the mouth of the Mississippi

5. The English Arrive The Tudors consolidate the English monarchy
Early attempts
Jamestown
Virginia Company (Joint-Stock)
Let’s find some gold
Starvation, disease, and death
Indians and their culture
Smith, tobacco, etc
Cash Crop bonanza!
Indentured servitude and labor
Maryland and the Act of Toleration
Tidewater vs. the backcountry
Introduction of slave labor/ Bacon’s Rebellion

6. New England

7. Plymouth The Pilgrims in Holland Squanto
The Economics of the Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact

8. Mass Bay Colony Charles I and Archbishop Laud Puritans
Governance of the Mass Bay Colony
Mass Bay Company organized in Boston, not London
“City on a Hill”

9. New England, continued CT RI Western MA New England Economics
Towns, Farms and Fish
Trading (furs, naval stores, fish, slaves)
Indians and the New Settlers
Indian culture
Disease (demographic catastrophe)
Pequot War, King Phillip’s War

10. Restoration Colonies Proprietary colonies
PA and William Penn
The Carolinas
New York, NJ, DE

11. Colonial Economies Mercantilism Navigation Acts (Lords of Trade)
Growth of the slave economy in the Southern colonies
Triangle trade (South Atlantic system)

12. Colonial Political Structure
Development of local institutions
House of Burgesses, the Great and General Court
Dominion of New England
Glorious Revolution
Salutary neglect

13. The Struggle for Empire 1789-1763
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
King George’s War
French and Indian War
Uprisings in the west