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EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA. WHAT IS HISTORY?? Prologue, After the Fact Point of View (ATF 1)

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1 EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA

2 WHAT IS HISTORY?? Prologue, After the Fact Point of View (ATF 1)

3 Guiding Question 1 Why did people settle in the British North American colonies? Did people come for primarily economic concerns or for religious/idealistic motivations?

4 Guiding Question 2 Why and How did the British North American colonies develop into distinctively different societies and economies? Regions: (1) the Chesapeake and Lower South, (2) New England, (3) Mid-Atlantic.

5 American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century

6 VIRGINIA CHESAPEAKE

7 Roanoke Colony, 1584-1590

8 Virginia Company, Charter, 1606

9 Chesapeake Bay &Jamestown &Jamestown

10 Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated) Settlement of Virginia Virginia Company Jamestown John Smith John Rolfe Tobacco “starving time” House of Burgesses indentured servants headright system

11 Early Colonial Tobacco 1618 1618 — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco. 1622 1622 — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco. 1627 1627 — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco. 1629 1629 — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.

12 Tobacco Prices 1618-1710

13 Life in Early Virginia, 1620- 1670s “plantations” society economy quality of life religion? River Plantations in Virginia, c. 1640

14 17 th Century Population in the Chesapeake

15 Social Unrest in the Chesapeake Bacon’s rebellion – causes Backcountry settlement and Protection Power of “eastern” elites and Taxation –significance Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia, 1676

16 Significance of Bacon’s Rebellion First large rebellion in colonies (political & social) Social/political conflict : “eastern” elites vs. backcountry Catalyst in transition from indentured servitude to slavery

17 Reasons for Slavery Decrease in indentured servants –English economy Increase in availability of slaves –end of Royal African company monopoly –Decrease in price Fears of growing number of landless freemen Available supply from Caribbean

18 Population of Chesapeake Colonies: 1610-1750

19 The Atlantic Slave Trade “middle passage”

20 Slave Trade

21 Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

22 Estimated Number of Africans Imported to British North America, 1701 – 1775

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24 Slavery Where was slavery legal? In which colonies did it exist? Africans as a Percentage of Total Population of the British Colonies, 1650–1770

25 The Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeent h Century

26 Deep South Carolina (1682) Georgia (1738) rice indigo The West Indies and Carolina in the Seventeenth Century Indigo Rice

27 Early Carolina, circa 1710

28 The Carolinas and Georgia

29 Spread of Settlement: British Colonies, 1650 – 1700

30 NEW ENGLAND

31 American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century

32 English Migration, 1610-1660

33 Plymouth Separatists “Pilgrims” Plymouth Mayflower Compact Mayflower II

34 Massachusetts Bay Puritans Great Migration “City upon a hill”

35 New England towns town meetings church Education “Old Satan Deluder” Act (1647) Harvard College (1636) merchants Land Division in Sudbury, MA: 1639-1656

36 Population of the New England Colonies

37 Puritan “Rebels” Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson

38 New England Colonies, 1650

39 King Philip’s War, 1675 – 1676)

40 MIDDLE COLONIES

41 Colonies in Eastern North America 1650

42 New Netherlan d & New Sweden

43 New York New Netherland (1613) – Who? Why? Patroonships >>> New York (1664) society economy

44 Pennsylvania William Penn Quakers society economy Indian relations Royal Land Grant to Penn

45 Middle Colonies, 1685

46 Area of English settlemen t by 1700

47 American Colonies at the End of the Seventeent h Century

48 Britain's American Empire, 1713


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