APUSH

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APUSH

• The Colonies
• Overview

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The English Colonies

• A. Political and Religious discontent in Europe
• B. England defeats Spanish Armada
• C. VA. CO. founds Jamestown 1607 in Chesapeake
  Bay
• 1. Powhatan
• 2. Pocahontas (Rolfe, ends 1st Powhattan war)
• 3. Captain John Smith

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Virginia and VA. Company

• 4. Tobacco and Plantation Economy
• 5. House of Burgesses est. 1619
• 6. 2nd Powhattan War 1644-1646
• A. Powhattans expelled from VA. By 1685
• 7. 1st African Slaves arrive in VA. 1619

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The New England Colonies

• 1. Pilgrims arrive Cape Cod (Nov. 1620)
• A. Mayflower Compact
• B. Squanto
• C. Thanksgiving
• 2. Ma. Bay Colony
• A. Puritans
• B. Theocracy (New England Calvinism)
• C. John Winthrope
• D. Puritan Congregations
• E. Puritan Ethic

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New England Life

• Ground too rocky
• Taste for rum
• Shipbuilders/ fisherman, lumberjacks
• Puritan Life
• Obey husband
• Wife must think inferiority
• Marriage is a contract
• Could let wives keep what they owned
• Males53, Females45 (life expectancy)
• 5 kids were typical

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Southern Colonies

• 1. Maryland- 1634
• A. Lord Baltimore
• B. Act of Toleration 1649
• 2. Carolinas- 1633 by English Aristocrats
• A. Charleston
• B. Divided into N. and S. 1712
• 3. Georgia- 1732 by James Oglethorpe
• A. refuge for debtors

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New England Colonies Continued

• Roger Williams found R.I. Baptist Church 1635
• Fundamental Orders of Conn.
• Pequot War 1637
• King Phillips War 1675-76
• Salem Witch Trials 1692-93

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The Middle Colonies

• 1. New Netherlands becomes New York
• A. est. by Dutch West India Co.
• B. Patroons control large estates
• C. New Amsterdam bought from Indians (deal!!!)
• 2. New Jersey
• a. becomes royal colony in 1702
• 3. Penn. Founded 1682
• a. William Penn
• 4. Delaware founded 1701
• a. formed out of Penns lower counties

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Bacons Rebellion- 1676, Virginia

• Nathaniel Bacon
• High taxes, low tobacco prices, special
  privileges given to governors friends
• Sir William Berkley-governor
• Failed to defend
• Bacon elected to burgesses, arrested
• Bacon marches on and captures Jamestown with
  supporters (labeled traitors)
• Could not defend and sets fire instead
• Aristocracy remains in power

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Colonial Wrap Up

• APUSH-CHAPTER 4 overview

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New England v. Chesapeake

• New England
• Longer life expectancy
• Transplanted families
• Higher birth rate
• grandparents
• Tightly knit societies
• Orderly growth
• Prideful of being Gods chosen

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Chesapeake

• More disease
• Single men
• Random planters
• 86 years for a college to develop

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ANGLICAN V. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

• ANGLICANCH. OF ENGLAND
• OFFICIAL RELIGION OF GA. NS. Carolina, VA. MA.
  
• No bishop in America-travel to Eng.
• CONGREGATIONALPURITAN
• SHORTER SERMONS
• N.E. BASED
• DISCUSSED POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS

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GREAT AWAKENING

• 1730S-1740S
• Jacob Arminius and Arminian Challenge
• Ignited by Johnathan Edwards
• Old Lights v. New Lights
• Effects
• Increase in s and competitiveness of Am.
  Churches
• New missionaries for Indians
• Emotions undermine clergy
• Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth

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Colonial Culture

• Ben Franklin magnets, electricity, stove, Poor
  Richards Almanac
• Press 40 on eve of Rev.
• John Peter Zenger Case
• Free Speech and press debate
• Colonial Politics by 1775
• 2 house legislations
• Still not a true democracy
• Upper by king
• Lower by people

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COLONIAL FOLKWAYS

• DRAB/ TEDIOUS
• MONOTONOUS
• MUSTERS
• SOCIAL GATHERINGS-LIQUOR
• DANCING
• SELF RULLING PRESENCE
• MOSTLY ENGLISH CUSTOMS