1. The
Restoration
Colonies

2. Settling the Middle [or “Restoration”] Colonies
GOALS  profit and individual betterment.

3. New Netherlands & New Sweden
Founded in the 1660s by:
Friends of British King Charles II.
Land speculators.
Middle class farmers & craftsmen.

4. More Like Later America Than Other Regions!
Economic diversity.
Large cities  more cosmopolitan culture.
Some slavery [6%-12% of the population].
Ethnic and religious diversity.
Religious toleration.
“Bread Colonies.”

5. New York
Manors &
Land Grants
Patroonships

6. New York Harbor, 1639

7. New Amsterdam

8. Governor of New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Amsterdam

9. William Penn
The “Holy Experiment”

10. Royal Land Grant to Penn

11. Penn & Native Americans

12. Penn’s Treaty with the Native Americans

13. Urban Population Growth 1650 - 1775

14. Ethnic Groups

15. Settling the Lower South
1660s – 1730s
The Carolinas & Georgia.
Planters & yeomen farmers from VA or the Sugar Islands.
Debtors & other petty criminals.

16. The only southern port city.
Port of Charles Town, SC
The only southern port city.

17. Crops of the Carolinas
Rice
Indigo

18. Rice & Indigo Exports from SC & GA: 1698-1775

19. Founder of Georgia James Oglethorpe
A “buffer zone” between Britain’s North American colonies & Spanish Florida.
James Oglethorpe

20. The Trustees of Georgia Painted by William Verelst, 1734

21. Grill pattern of settlement.
1733 Savannah
Grill pattern of settlement.

22. :
A Decade of Crisis

23. Iroquois Lands & European Trade Centers

24. King Philip’s War, 1675 – 1676)

25. Governor William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion ( )
Nathaniel Bacon
Governor William Berkeley

26. 18c Southern Colonies