American week 4 9 19 11 3 major developments 1 growing tobacco and selling it prices go down and down cant do anything but grow tobacco 2 high mortality days people are living longer 3 declining mortality living longer to share wealth for another generation rich and poor now Rich are governing for the rich poor men unable to vote and no say what goes on in the colony Changes England takes notice in columbine wealth so they take more money from them want to sell tobacco only threw English need a boat england boat Tax tobacco heavily Nathaniel Bacon and Bacon Rebellion Dispute in Virginia Powhaten is supreme chief attacked England surprise attack and kills 500 colonist in 2 days goes on for 2 years ends when they catch and kill the chief treaty was made for Indians boundaries were made People are trying to find land so they keep pushing in the wilderness and the Indians get mad government doesn t side with colonist Indians Bacon rebellion government isn t acting for everyone s interest only for them people in colony agree to Bacon gov thinks of him as a rebellion Bacon gets voted in so side of the Bacon Legislature decided they would start to look into laws called Bacons laws Thinks bacon is a trader Bacon does 1 figures stops Indians goes out and fights Indians sacks the house of planter alit and attacks Jamestown 2 3 hangs friends and does everything to stop bacons rebellion Burkle is voted Governor Bacons laws gone Bacon law showed people a need for government Also shows that its easier to kill indians rather then make them happy by 1700 it starts becoming a society with slaves is of land is primary done in work by slaves Barbados Sugar Production Sugar goes up and so the demand labor goes up Sugar can only be made in certain areas 3 or pop are African slaves lots of slaves don t live 3 4 years Sometimes the planters would get so rich they don t want to grow it anymore and so they move up north and take there slaves and establish the idea about Charlestown find new cash crop thats the same as sugar decided to move to Charlestown 50 acors or land has gone to 100 acors of land if you come over Carolinas are the first colony to settle down 1 4 is slaves 30 years later 1 2 of the pop is slaves and still haven t gotten a crop that s new They tried to do everything but nothing work so they tried Rice became another cash crop Capturing Indians and selling them for labor was also another way to make indians Tobacco Cultivation and slavery Slow transition from indenture labor to actually slavery difference is they never become free Slaves offer labor force mother is slaves and she has children then they are slaves never end of supply of labor controlled by politics control them better since they are not the same skin color All slaves are black All whites are free unless temp boned this society is becoming white vs black majority don t own black slaves White people dont have land have advantages there free leave when ever you want get property do what you want vote people that dont have land keep themselves thinking there better then slaves Northern Colonies Key terms English Reformation Puritans Pilgrims William Bradford Separatism John Winthrop Predestination the elect Lecture overview Puritanism Foundation in the new world pilgrims Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans beliefs ideas and religion King henry the 8th wanted to break away from the catolic church wanted a divorce SO he makes his own church replaces the church and becomes the church helps problem with the fighting with the catholic church People in England didn t want to change and some that did People that did wanted to become puritans and break away free from the catholic church Purify the church of England catholic church Relationship with god should be threw a pray keep the same church but just different ideas After henry died people are going back and forth James the 1st new translation of the bible better for bible study s so they can understand James only translated the bible didnt want anything to do with it really puritans pack up and leave and go to west indies and some to America pilgrims believe separatism and that they should leave because England is confused Go to Holland Not to far Very corrupt Leave again and want to go to America wanted to settled in a large area joint stock company English financers to settle in August 1620 pilgrims boarded the may flower landed in Massachusetts and realized its not Virginia and didn t have a legal write to be there but they made a document First winter bad didn t have time to grow crops half die because no shelter and lack of vitamin C Spring local Indians saved them Squanto Been to European and knows English and helped them survived grow corn and enough food to survive through winter celebrate it with the first thanksgiving new group arrives and they don t have any money Pilgrims struggle onwards 1630 small permanent settlement 1629 new group takes a charter in the Massachusetts area called Massachusetts Bay Colony Done in America and not England Self government and not harassed by English governors elect John Winthrop as governor 9 21 11 Key Terms Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Halfway Covenant Quakers Middle Colonies William Penn Navigation Acts Massachusetts Bay Colony 9 years after Pilgrims came over the rest of the puritans deiced to start going over to the new world 700 people stuffed in 7 ships and then another 500 people come over Lead by John Winthrop Based on the same church but don t feel like changing it So they went to make a new one European colonies in America Winthrop says they have an agreement with god but puritans have to be extra worthy Have to practice what they preach on a daily bases English aren t following there ideas in Europe Also told puritans had to be knighted work for common good and make it work out Have to be able to trust your neighbor City on a Hill sermon John Winthrop Thinks they have set an example to set a good idea and have a better life where they are now Have to be the best and purest people everyday government culture everything is religious for them Some Advantages Not a lot of Indians Speculation now that lived there were whipped out disease Disadvantages Dangerous place to live Exposure Having trouble building houses To many people to feed not enough food 200 of the 1 200 died the first year People in England are pissed off Everyone would leave town 1640 New England had highest pop of priest and preachers than anywhere else Job
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