PUTTING DOWN ROOTS: OPPORTUNITY AND OPPRESSION IN COLONIAL SOCIETY

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PUTTING DOWN ROOTS OPPORTUNITY AND OPPRESSION
IN COLONIAL SOCIETY

• America Past and Present
• Chapter 3

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New England - Mass

• Puritans came for Freedom of Religion City on a
  Hill
• Widespread ownership of land Farmers/Towns/Shipp
  ing ports
• Apprentice rather than indentured servant
• Great Migration
• Survival Key to growth

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New England - Mass

• God ordained the Family
• Long life/Good health/Families
• Focus on Community/Education(Harvard)
• Church/Town Meeting/Freemen Status could vote
• Member of Church is part of elect

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Chesapeake-VA and Maryland

• Joint Stock Co/Business
• Plantations, Tobacco/No Towns
• Indentured Servants/Headright system/slaves
• Single Young Men No Focus on School, Family,
  Community
• High Mortality Rate

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Chesapeake VA And Maryland

• Wide Gap Between Rich and Poor
• House of Burgesses
• Key to success land and slaves

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Slavery

• 1619 1660s Few Slaves Mostly Indentured
  Servants
• Most slaves to Brazil and Caribbean
• Matter of Economics
• Changes in Chesapeake Area
• Life Expectancy in VA Improved

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Slavery

• The British Royal African Company Provided Most
  Slaves to Colonies
• SC 60 Black PA 8 Black VA 40 Black
  MA 3 Black
• Start of Laws and Racism

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Slavery

• Culture Identity Better in Large Plantation
  South Carolina
• 1739 Stono Uprising Serious Slave Rebellion
• Many Slaves Preferred Sea and Became Seamen
  (Mariner)

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Mercantilism

• Mercantilism British Colonial Commercial Policy
• 1660 Navigation Acts
• British Ships with British Crews
• Enumerated Goods Could be Sold only to Mother
  Country or another Colony

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Mercantilism

• 1663 Second Navigation Acts
• No Imports to Colonies Unless Shipped to England
  First
• Navigation Acts Meant to Monopolize American
  Trade and Eliminate the Dutch Competition

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Mercantilism

• Flagrant Violations of Navigations Acts Came From
  New England
• England Didnt Have Enough Agents In Ports to
  Enforce Laws

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Contagion Of Witchcraft

• Charges of Witchcraft Common
• Accused Witches Thought to Have Made A Compact
  with Devil
• 1691 Salem Panic Much Larger in Scope Than
  Previously

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Witchcraft

• 20 Victims Dead Before Trails Halted
• Famous Ministers, Increase Mather, Speak Out
  Against Witchcraft
• Causes Unknown But Speculation

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Origins and Destinations of African Slaves,
1619-1760
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COMMON EXPERIENCES, SEPARATE CULTURES