1. Review: The English Colonies: 1607-1750s
Economic
Mercantilism
Market: Wool
Enclosure Movement
Economic Models (Royal, Proprietary, Corporate)
Liberty and Land. (Ownership)
Jamestown, Virginia.
Maryland
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Trade ports
Slave Societies: Southern colonies
Society With Slaves: New England and Middle Colonies
The Seven-Years War (war is expensive. British, French, Spanish)
English administration of colonies
Colonial Wars.
Social
Religion:
The Reformation
Anglican Church/King Henry VIII
Puritans- New England
Separatists (Pilgrims)
Rivalry with Spain
Dissent in the colonies (Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson
Indigenous
Land: force, treaties
Environmental destruction
Domestication of Livestock
Uprising of 1622
Pequot War
Tobacco: Indigenous
Women
Brabbling Women
Salem, Massachusetts
Indigenous women
Africans in the Colonies
1619: indentured servants
Charter Generation
1640s-Chattel Slavery
Free Blacks: New York, New Orleans
Slave Family: Community, Resistance, Survival, Religion, Labor
Changing Ideologies: The Enlightenment, the Great Awakening
Political
Colonial Settlements (Spanish in North America)
Queen Elizaeth
13 Colonies
Mayflower Compact
Laws (Encomienda)
Laws- protection of trade
English law: gendered
King James I and Tobacco
Laws: Chattel Slavery
Taxes and Tariffs
Lack of Representation from Crown
Organization: Colonial Legislatures
Capitals in each of the colonies
Colonial Wars
* Be familiar with some of the names of the founding families in the colonial period. We will discuss key individuals during the Revolutionary Era.
On The Road to A Revolution.