A Patriot's History of the United States

Outline 16-57 A Patriot’s History of the United States

The Colonial South

·      1606- James I granted the Virginia Company

·      Migrants to Jamestown included few skilled farmers, or construction but were rather gentlemen who didn’t want to work

·      Disease decimated the colony

·      John Smith took over and made people work for their food

·      Indentured Servitude came into play

·      Lord De La Warr arrives and takes over the colony he also declares war on the Natives

Tobacco, Slaves, and Representative government

·      1612- John Rolfe made Jamestown profitable by creating a cash crop: tobacco

·      Head right policy- required more land

·      Tobacco required more land

·      This required the colonists to develop further into Natives land which cause conflict.

·      1619- first year slaves were brought to Jamestown

·      1619 – House of Burgesses is formed

·      When Charles I was executed the colony was slightly ignored this allowed self government to foster

Bacon’s Rebellion

·      First mini civil war in the colonies.

·      Bacon was dissatisfied with the way Berkeley treated the Natives

·      Bacon wanted more protection from the natives so he marched against Jamestown

·      He, along with his rebellion, died from disease

The Maryland Experiment

·      1634 land grant to George Calvert passed to son Cecilius Calvert

·      He was given full reign of his property

·      Maryland also had an assembly created from elected members

·      Toleration act of 1649 – permitted ay Christian faith to be practiced in the colony

·      Supported slavery and plantation system

The Carolinas: Charles Town vs. Cracker Culture

·      Created by 8 wealthy proprietors

·      Had plantations and slaves

·      Main export cash crop in the south : rice to the sugar plantations to feed slaves

·      Main export cash crop in the north: tobacco

Life of the Common Colonials

·      Colonists are distinctly becoming less European

·      They (the colonists) made their own unique clothes with special dyes

·      They had different foods

·      Fresh water was limited

·      Doctors were scarce

·      They believed that anyone could participate in the government

·      Things that led to self government:

·    Distance from colonies to mainland

·    Instability in England government

·    The ability to own land bolstered colonists’ political confidence since it made them feel like royals or gentlemen

·    “the precedent of rebellion against a government that did not carry out the most basic mandates”

·    religious toleration

New England’s Pilgrims and Puritans

·      Plymouth was created by religious reasons (Pilgrims)

·      The Mayflower got blown off course and where it landed could potentially be a sign of disrespect to the crown

·      They created the Mayflower compact to show that they landed there not in spite of the crown but for the glory of god and honor of the king and country.

·      John Carver is elected governor

·      They had a ruff first winter

·      They had help from the native population (Squanto)

·      Massachusetts Bay Colony – created for religious freedom (Puritans) by Winthrop he wanted to set an example for everyone else.

·      Government in Massachusetts was democratic

The Pequot War and American Militia System

·      Puritans came in conflict with the Pequot

·      This inspired the Militia system

·      July 1636 Pequot war declared

·      Mystic River, a slaughter of Native women, men and children by the English

·      This made the Natives realize that they would have to unify to fight the Whites

·      King Philips war was a staggering defeat for the New England costal tribes

·      Militia had insubordination

Roger Williams and the limits of Religious Toleration

·      Roger Wiliams

·      church and state need to be completely separated

·      No one could determine who was “saved” and who was “damned”

·      He left and found Rhode Island

·      Anne Hutchingson

·      Antinomianism, the “saved” need not obey church’s laws

·      She moved to Rhode Island after getting the boot because of her potentially upsetting preaches

Unique Middle Colonies: New  York, New Jersey, and Quaker Pennsylvania

The Glorious Revolution in England and America, 1688-69

Chapter 2: Colonial Adolescence

The Inability to Remain European

Shaping “Americanness”

Common life in the Early Eighteenth Century

 Religion’s First Great Awakening

Slavery’s American Origins and Evolution

Georgia: The last colony

Benign Neglect