REVIEW 2: 1565,1607 TO 1754

I. SETTLEMENT: Reason for settlement, time of settlement, important
people, type of colony, Indians, source of income

A. St. Augustine, Florida (1565) - Spanish

B. Roanoke, North Carolina (1587) - Sir Walter Raleigh, Lost Colony

C. SEE HANDOUT: ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE NEW WORLD

D. Quebec, Canada (1608) - French, Champlain

E. New Amsterdam (1624) - Dutch, 1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan
Island, patroon system 1629 (land to wealthy men who transported 50
families to New Netherlands), Peter Stuyvesant. Became New York.

F. Fort Christina 1638:Swedish, conquered by Dutch 1655. Became Delaware

II. COMPARISON OF COLONIES

A. New England and the Chesapeake (See DBQ Essay)

B. Comparison of New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies

1. New England: Mass., Conn., Rhode Island, New Hampshire

a. First Settlements: 1620 Plymouth (Pilgrims); 1630 Mass. Bay

b. farming, fishing, lumbering, furs, shipping (triangular
trade); Harvard 1636

c. New England Confederation (1643) - Mass., Conn., Plymouth,
New Haven; for defense against Indians, Dutch, French

d. King Philip's War (1675-76): Indian raids, settlers killed

e. Original Puritan fervor wanes; Halfway Covenant (1662)

f. Dominion of New England (1686): England's attempt to
tighten administration

g. Salem (1692)

2. Middle Colonies: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey

a. diverse farming, bread basket

b. diverse ethnic and religious groups

c. 1688 Jacob Leisler assumes power in New York - hanged

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3. Southern Colonies: Va., Md., N.C., S.C., Georgia

a. First Settlement: 1607 Jamestown

b. farming: tobacco (Chesapeake, North Carolina), rice (South
Carolina, Georgia), indigo (South Carolina)

c. few towns - Williamsburg, Charleston

d. growth of slavery

e. Bacon's Rebellion - 1676, Virginia, desire of backwoods
settlers to expand into Indian territory

C. Life in the Colonies: political and social institutions

III. RELIGION: Conformity vs. Dissent

A. Anglicanism

B. Puritanism: Separatists (Pilgrims), Congregationalists, beliefs,
leaders, City on a Hill, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Halfway
Covenant 1662

C. Quakers

D. Great Awakening (1730-1760) - Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield,
Old Lights, New Lights, Methodists, Baptists, effect to increase
religious toleration

IV. RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS: See Handout "Wars and Stuff"

V. RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN

A. Mercantilism

B. Navigations Acts (1651-1673): trade only in English or colonial
ships, enumerated goods, foreign goods had to stop in England and pay
import duties, later no mfg. that competed with English goods.

C. Imperial Wars: See Handout

D. Period of Benevolent Neglect or Salutary Neglect