PreRevolutionary America

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Pre-Revolutionary America

• 1.01-Describe how geographic diversity influenced
  economic, social and political life in colonial
  North America.

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Colonies of North America

• Massachusetts,
• New Hampshire,
• Connecticut,
• Rhode Island
• New York,
• Delaware,
• New Jersey,
• Pennsylvania
• Maryland,
• Virginia,
• North Carolina,
• South Carolina,
• Georgia

New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
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A. Reasons for coming to the New World

• 1. Get rich
• Jamestown 1st successful settlement in VA
• Joint-Stock Companies fund them in hopes to get
  rich off the resources Mercantilism
• 2. Religious dissent (to escape religious
  persecution)
• Pilgrims- landed in Mass. on the Mayflower in
  1620 and named it Plymouth. The plan build a
  city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon
  us. (John Winthrop) ideal Christian Society.

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• b) Puritans- came to escape religious
  persecutions they believed religion should be
  involved in politics (govt) and in simple worship
• c) Quakers- come to NJ. Believe inner light
  God is w/in each of us, paid clergy was
  unnecessary, in plainness in appearance,
  speech
• d) Catholics- come to Maryland. Believe in good
  deeds, forgiveness, God Father, Son, and Holy
  Spirit, eternal life

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B. Types of Colonies

• Joint-stock Colony-colony funded by investors.
• Proprietary Colony-colony for which the king gave
  land to one or a few people to oversee.
• Royal colony-A colony with a charter granted by
  the king
• Self-Governing Colonies-Colony that exercises
  political authority over itself.

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C. Colonial Differences
Cash Crops grown for themselves (subsistence
farmers)
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• Indentured servants- paid their way to America
  by working in America for a set amount of time
  (4-7 yrs)
• Plantation System used both indentured servants
  and slaves to do the farming on the HUGE farms.
• Middle Passage (boat part) of the Triangle Trade
  Route (between Europe, West Africa, and North
  America)

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Europe

• Triangular Trade Route

Rum, trade goods, guns
Cotton, Sugar, tobacco
Africa
Slaves
West Indies USA