US AP History

US AP HISTORY

• Bell Work:• 1. What is a Utopic society?• 2.What were some of the English motivations for

settling in the New World?• 3.How did the distance across the Atlantic help

lead to a rather hands off approach to the growth of the new colonies?

A NEW HOME IN A NEW LANDENGLISH COLONIZATION 1603-89

Overview: •New World as a homeland•Motives – Economic and Religious•Free English Institutions

UTOPIA - 1516 Ideal Society Sir Thomas Moore

Sir Walter Raleigh

Croatoan

ROANOKE ISLAND - 1587

JOINT STOCK COMPANY

• Pool of investors to stake claims in the new world utilizing stock• Two joint stock companies formed and granted

land grants by James I.• Virginia Company- Southern Virginia (Jamestown)• Plymouth Company- Northern Virginia (Mass. Bay

Colony)

• Captain John Smith• Powhatan Indians

(Tobacco)• John Rolfe • Pocahontas

1607 – JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA

JAMESTOWN CONTINUED

• Hardships- water, lack of discipline, “starving time”• Edwin Sandys (sands)- private ownership and

representative government• House of Burgesses • Headrights (trip paid- 50 acres) vs. indentured

servitude… • Leads to stratified society- poor vs. rich• Defense issues- attacks by the Powhatans

An 1873 lithograph depicting the expedition against Nemasket led by Standish and guided by Hobbamock

Pilgrim Separatists Mayflower Compact 1st Written

Constitution (Civil, Body, Politics)

Miles Standish (Military Support)

1620 - PLYMOUTH

John Winthrope

o Puritans – John Winthrop

o “The Great Migration” (20,000 people within 10 years)

1630 – MASSACHUSETTS BAY

1636 – RHODE ISLAND

• Roger Williams: banished for religious beliefs-” land purchase from Indians, no punishment for religious beliefs

• Anne Hutchinson : Ideas reinterpreted and must leave to Rhode Island (Antinomianism)

• Personal relationship with God

1636 - CONNECTICUT

THOMAS HOOKER

FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECT ICUT (CONST ITUT ION) - BLUE PR INT FOR C IV I L GOVERNMENT (SOME MEN COULD VOTE)

• Lord Baltimore & Catholics

• Protestants’ Toleration an is overwhelmed

• Oyster War (Virginia from Maryland shoreline to the north)

1634 - MARYLAND

MARYLAND’S CATHOLIC COLONY

• Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)… friends with James I• Openly Catholic- sponsors a Catholic colony- his

son creates the colony but must appease Protestants to survive.• English Civil War almost divides the colony but

the “Act concerning Religion” pushed religious tolerance

1663 – NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA

Anthony Cooper… with support from John LockeEstablishes an aristocracy and

stratified society.NoblesSerfs – Slaves for LifeDivisions between the North and

South will lead to dividing the colony.

James, Duke of York Seized from the

Dutch New Institutes Navigation Act 1663

1664 – NEW YORK

William Penn (converted Quaker) Quakers

“Asylum for all” Proprietary Colony

Some challenge to Penn’s power- agrees to Charter of liberty

Freest Natural Place

1681 - PENNSYLVANIA

• James Oglethorpe• Prison, debtors

colony.• Buffer zone against

the Spanish

1732 - GEORGIA

ECONOMIC MERCANTILIST