Colonial Expansion

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Colonial Expansion
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Connecticut

• Founded by Thomas Hooker
• Thought puritans were too severe

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Rhode Island

• Roger Williams
• questions puritans
• banished from colony
• starts Providence, RI

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Roger Williams, contd

• preaches separation of church and state

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Anne Hutchinson

• said puritans were teaching ONLY works not grace

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Contd

• flees to Newport, RI
• unite with Providence to form Rhode Island

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Carolinas

• 1663 business men receive charter for Carolina
  (land south of VA)

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Carolinas Government

• Constitution included
• term limits, secret ballots, bicameral legislature

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Carolinas Economics

• raised cattle and hogs
• kidnapped Indians and sold as slaves

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South Carolina Separates

• Build shipping industry, Charleston grows

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Contd

• rice plantations, increase slave demand
• 1730 2/3rds of colony were African slaves

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New York

• 1664 Duke of York gets charter from King
• Dutch there, but dont resist

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New Yorks Government

• Duke ruled without any elected assembly
• No one wants to live there, thus NJ was started

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New Jersey

• John Berkeley and George Carteret granted the
  rights to NJ colony in 1665
• Elected assembly

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Pennsylvania

• William Penn gets charter
• Founds Quaker Colony

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Quaker Beliefs

• Believed God dwelt in each person as the inner
  light
• pacifists
• Equality of all people

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Quaker Families

• women had almost full equality
• more affectionate
• Did not socialize with non-Quakers

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PAs government

• voters would vote on laws
• No death penalty except for murder
• Religious freedom