Slavery in the Colonies

1
Slavery in the Colonies

• Overseers bosses to keep slaves working hard
• Slave codes strict rules governing the behavior
  and punishment of enslaved Africans
• Written permission to leave
• Illegal to read/write
• Beaten for minor offenses
• Hanged, burned to death for major offense
• Families torn apart
• Some learn trades and buy freedom

2
King James II is out, William and Mary are in

• King James king of England, autocrat, promotes
  Catholic religion
• William Protestant ruler of Netherlands
• Mary King James daughter
• England developing democracy, Protestant

3
Glorious Revolution

• James II wife gives birth to a son
• 7 English lords invite William and Mary to become
  dual monarchs
• There is no resistance, no conflict, bloodless
  revolution

4
English Bill of Rights

• Monarch head of state
• Parliament ultimate power
• More personal freedoms for citizens no cruel
  and unusual punishment, taxes must have
  Parliaments consent

5
Mercantilism

• To be wealthy, country must acquire gold and
  silver
• Buy raw materials from colonies, sell them
  manufactured goods
• King is trying to make money from the colonies

6
Navigation Acts

• Passed by England to benefit from their colonies
• All goods shipped to and from colonies must be on
  Englands ships
• Breaks colonists away from the mother country

7
Charter Colonies

• Established by settlers given land
• Colonists elect their own governors
• Groups of settlers have more control than other
  colonies
• Connecticut, Rhode Island

8
Proprietary Colonies

• Ruled by individual proprietors
• Individuals whom England gave land
• Appoint the governor and upper house
• Colonists elect lower house
• Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania

9
Royal Colonies

• Ruled directly by Britain
• King appoints governor and upper house
• Colonists elect lower house
• Conflict upper house did what England wanted
• GA, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, SC, VA

10
Great Awakening

• Religious revival
• Recover the spiritual experience
• Return to Puritan views
• Large public meetings

11
Jonathan Edwards

• Preacher
• God is angry, you dangle over hell like a spider
  in a web
• Spoke to churches and large town gatherings

12
George Whitefield

• Preacher from England
• Spoke to 10,000 people at a time in fields
• Leads to new churches Baptists, Methodists,
  Presbyterians

13
Family

• Religion, education, and the arts
• The farm the home and workplace
• Men head of household
• Apprentices sons become indentured servants or
  learning assistants

14
Education

• Children taught to read and write at home
• Schools set up, teach kids how to read the Bible
• 1647 first school supported by taxes in
  Massachusetts
• Schools run by widowed and unmarried females,
  Quakers in PA

15
Enlightenment

• Knowledge, reason, science should improve society
• Government should be formed by consent of all
  people, make own laws, 3 branches, checks and
  balances

16
Freedom of Press

• John Peter Zenger case
• He was critical of NY governor
• Argued that it was freedom of speech
• Jury finds him not guilty because his story was
  telling the truth