Colonial America

• Take a look at "Colonial America, notes", w are the notes of the class
• A PDF of the slides are also available

IDK. He still won't tell. :(

• Rise of a business oriented class
• Pooling of resources for investment
• Tech: astrolabe, maps, compass, better ships, etc.

A pair-relationship between colonies:

• Mother Country provides…
  • Finished products
  • Protection
  • Governance
• Colonies provides…
  • Raw materials
  • Monopolies on market
  • Loyalty

Russia traveling from west => east; competing with the northern going group.

"Superpower" built upon the Spanish Navy (the "armada.")

• Mission: churches religions and cultures (supposed to be self-sufficient)
• Presidio: military gates and posts
• Pueblos: living

Leveraged Privateers: pirates with royal decrees, to destroy ability. Defeated the armada by chasing them and sticking them into the English isle.

All business adventures to make money. Settlers were not as loyal because there were a group of dissidents, beggars, and ex-convicts. Also, they are not motivated by missionary reasons.

French along the river systems. Everything flows from the river systems.

Based on trade rather than architecture. Leveraged the Fur Trade as the primary exclusive source of income.

1607, John Smith's colonies. It was a Charter colony, it was a business by the order of the Crown.

• 50% Mortality in Year 1
• Not self sufficient: hunting gold instead of deer, did not plant enough
• Too many "gentlemen", not enough laborers. Smith: "He how will not work shall not eat."

John Rolfe introduces tobacco: provides economic foundation for Virginia. Tobacco causes cancer, and so if Barry catches you smoking he will….

• 1619: House of Burgesses formed; 1st elected representative body in North America
• 1619: First Africans sold; indentured servants became racialized
• 1622: Powhatan attack the settlement
• 1624: Crown buys Jamestown; it becomes a "Crown Colony"

Group of other "Pilgrims" arriving in the new New World. Agree to create a covenant, promising to obey" just and equal laws."

• "Covenant and combine ourselves together in a civil body politic"
• "Enact, constitute, and frame just and equal laws"

Massachusetts Co. Puritan's Goal: establish a "City of God."

• Wanted to setup a Puritan colony that allow
• Lack of religious toleration: forced the Quakers to leave

Puritans planted food to support the growth of these colonies.

Settlers from Massachusetts bay looking for more land. Received charter to elect their own governor.

Dutch established the Patroon system: land granted for bringing new settlers. Crown awards land to Lord York after defeat of Dutch.

Also gave to lord York somehow?

Sold land to the Quakers. As a thank you to the William Penn, who gave the Quakers' land, they:

Catholic colony. Had religious toleration after realizing the Puritans came swooping in.

1663, chartered by the crown. Planned to attract settlers with religious & political freedom. Central to the trading of slavery.

Buffer zone between Carolina (productive slave trading region) and Spanish Florida

• Attempted to create Utopian societies
• … but failed

Begin manumission: began freeing slaves in 1791, one of the first emancipators.

=> A lot of racial tensions were allowed to continue and contributed to the problem

Port cities grew bigger and became hubs of cultural and political activity.

• Revolutionary sparks occurred first at big cities {Boston, Philly, NYC}
• Served as industrial centers
• Increased education