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Title: Give Me Liberty!


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Chapter 3
Norton Media Library
Give Me Liberty! An American History Second
EditionVolume 1
by Eric Foner
2
I. Introduction
  • Social turmoil of late seventeenth-century North
    America
  • Illustration King Philips War
  • Indian attacks on Southern New England colonial
    settlements
  • Defeat of Indian rebellion
  • Devastation of Southern New England Indians

3
II. Expansion of Englands empire
  • Mercantilism
  • Principles
  • Adoption by England
  • Place of North America in

4
Expansion of Englands empire (contd)
  • New York
  • Origins
  • Growth and significance
  • Military
  • Commercial
  • Population
  • Status of inhabitants
  • Religious groups
  • Ethnic groups
  • Women
  • Blacks
  • Landed elite
  • Iroquois Confederacy
  • Charter of Liberties and Privileges

5
Expansion of Englands empire (contd)
  • Carolina
  • Origins
  • Relations with Indians
  • Lures for settlers
  • Introduction of plantation slavery
  • Pennsylvania
  • Origins
  • William Penn
  • Quaker principles
  • Relations with Indians
  • Lures for settlers
  • Growth

6
Origins of American slavery
  • Reasons for rise of black slavery in British
    colonies
  • Growing demand for plantation labor
  • Practical advantages over other alternatives
  • English cultural perceptions
  • Of alien peoples in general
  • Of Africans in particular
  • Slavery in world history
  • Slavery in the West Indies
  • Rapid rise during seventeenth century
  • Centrality of sugar production

7
Origins of American slavery (contd)
  • Rise of Chesapeake slavery
  • Early decades
  • Predominance of servants from England
  • Ambiguities of lines between black and white,
    slavery and freedom
  • In custom
  • In law
  • Mid-seventeenth century
  • Gradual divergence in status of blacks and whites
  • Growing practice of slavery

8
Origins of American slavery (contd)
  • Rise of Chesapeake slavery
  • Bacons Rebellion
  • Background
  • Governor William Berkeleys favoritism toward
    wealthy planters
  • Diminishing prospects, rising hardships of small
    farmers
  • Berkeleys restraints on white settlement
  • Narrative
  • Frontier attacks on Indians
  • Mobilization of diverse rebels by Nathaniel Bacon
  • Grievances and objectives
  • Burning of Jamestown
  • Attacks on governors supporters
  • Suppression of rebellion

9
Origins of American slavery (contd)
  • Rise of Chesapeake slavery
  • Bacons Rebellion
  • Long-term consequences
  • Expanded freedoms and opportunities for white
    Virginians
  • Accelerated shift from white indentured servitude
    to black slavery
  • Early eighteenth century
  • Legal codification of slavery, white supremacy
  • Consolidation of slavery as basis of Virginia
    economy
  • Slave resistance

10
Colonies in crises
  • The Glorious Revolution and repercussions for
    colonial America
  • The Glorious Revolution in England
  • Establishment of Parliamentary supremacy
  • Entrenchment of Protestant succession to throne
  • Affirmation of English rights and liberties
  • Reassertion of colonial autonomy new charters
  • Abolition of Dominion of New England restoration
    of New England colonial governments
  • Maryland
  • New York
  • Massachusetts

11
Colonies in crises (contd)
  • Witchcraft in New England
  • Seventeenth-century belief in supernatural
  • Generally around Europe and America
  • Among Puritans
  • Customary conceptions and treatment of witches
  • Salem witch trials
  • Mounting hysteria
  • Accusations, trials, and punishment
  • Ebbing of hysteria
  • Discrediting of witch-hunting growing commitment
    to scientific explanation

12
Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
  • Population growth
  • 1. Remarkable pace
  • 2. Causes
  • Increasing diversity of population
  • Higher rate of non-English to English arrivals
  • Efforts by London to stem outflow of skilled
    English
  • Efforts by London to encourage settlement by
    others
  • Africans
  • English convicts
  • Scots and Scots-Irish
  • Germans

13
Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
(contd)
  • Lures to settlement
  • 1. Religious diversity
  • 2. Availability of land
  • 3. Demand for skills
  • 4. Other freedoms and opportunities
  • Indians and the colonies
  • 1. Place in imperial system as traders,
    consumers, military allies
  • 2. Growing conflict with backcountry settlers
  • Patterns of agriculture
  • 1. New England
  • 2. Backcountry
  • 3. Middle Colonies

14
Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
(contd)
  • Place of colonies in consumer revolution
  • As producer of goods
  • As consumer of goods
  • Colonial cities
  • Growth
  • Functions
  • Financial
  • Commercial
  • Cultural
  • Merchants
  • Artisans

15
Social classes in the colonies
  • Elites
  • Rising dominance
  • Regional variants
  • Mercantile elite of New England and Middle
    Colonies
  • Planter elite of Chesapeake and Lower South
  • Means of social and political hegemony
  • Anglicization
  • Aristocratic lifestyle
  • Hierarchical worldview

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VI. Social classes in the colonies (contd)
  • The poor
  • Spread of poverty
  • Slaves
  • Landless tenants and wage earners
  • Attitudes and policies toward the poor
  • Image as responsible for own poverty
  • Workhouses
  • Apprenticeship
  • Warning out of and expulsion from communities
  • Middling ranks
  • Predominance of
  • Basis in land ownership
  • Gender divisions of labor

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Studyspace link
http//www.wwnorton.com/foner
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End slide
This concludes the Norton Media Library Slide Set
for Chapter 3
Give Me Liberty! An American History 2nd Edition,
Volume 1
by Eric Foner
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