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1 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
16 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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