Give Me Liberty!

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Chapter 3
Norton Media Library
Give Me Liberty! An American History Second
EditionVolume 1
by Eric Foner
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I. Introduction

• Social turmoil of late seventeenth-century North
  America
• Illustration King Philips War
• Indian attacks on Southern New England colonial
  settlements
• Defeat of Indian rebellion
• Devastation of Southern New England Indians

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II. Expansion of Englands empire

• Mercantilism
• Principles
• Adoption by England
• Place of North America in

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Expansion of Englands empire (contd)

• New York
• Origins
• Growth and significance
• Military
• Commercial
• Population
• Status of inhabitants
• Religious groups
• Ethnic groups
• Women
• Blacks
• Landed elite
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Charter of Liberties and Privileges

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Expansion of Englands empire (contd)

• Carolina
• Origins
• Relations with Indians
• Lures for settlers
• Introduction of plantation slavery
• Pennsylvania
• Origins
• William Penn
• Quaker principles
• Relations with Indians
• Lures for settlers
• Growth

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Origins of American slavery

• Reasons for rise of black slavery in British
  colonies
• Growing demand for plantation labor
• Practical advantages over other alternatives
• English cultural perceptions
• Of alien peoples in general
• Of Africans in particular
• Slavery in world history
• Slavery in the West Indies
• Rapid rise during seventeenth century
• Centrality of sugar production

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Origins of American slavery (contd)

• Rise of Chesapeake slavery
• Early decades
• Predominance of servants from England
• Ambiguities of lines between black and white,
  slavery and freedom
• In custom
• In law
• Mid-seventeenth century
• Gradual divergence in status of blacks and whites
• Growing practice of slavery

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Origins of American slavery (contd)

• Rise of Chesapeake slavery
• Bacons Rebellion
• Background
• Governor William Berkeleys favoritism toward
  wealthy planters
• Diminishing prospects, rising hardships of small
  farmers
• Berkeleys restraints on white settlement
• Narrative
• Frontier attacks on Indians
• Mobilization of diverse rebels by Nathaniel Bacon
• Grievances and objectives
• Burning of Jamestown
• Attacks on governors supporters
• Suppression of rebellion

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Origins of American slavery (contd)

• Rise of Chesapeake slavery
• Bacons Rebellion
• Long-term consequences
• Expanded freedoms and opportunities for white
  Virginians
• Accelerated shift from white indentured servitude
  to black slavery
• Early eighteenth century
• Legal codification of slavery, white supremacy
• Consolidation of slavery as basis of Virginia
  economy
• Slave resistance

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Colonies in crises

• The Glorious Revolution and repercussions for
  colonial America
• The Glorious Revolution in England
• Establishment of Parliamentary supremacy
• Entrenchment of Protestant succession to throne
• Affirmation of English rights and liberties
• Reassertion of colonial autonomy new charters
• Abolition of Dominion of New England restoration
  of New England colonial governments
• Maryland
• New York
• Massachusetts

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Colonies in crises (contd)

• Witchcraft in New England
• Seventeenth-century belief in supernatural
• Generally around Europe and America
• Among Puritans
• Customary conceptions and treatment of witches
• Salem witch trials
• Mounting hysteria
• Accusations, trials, and punishment
• Ebbing of hysteria
• Discrediting of witch-hunting growing commitment
  to scientific explanation

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Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America

• Population growth
• 1. Remarkable pace
• 2. Causes
• Increasing diversity of population
• Higher rate of non-English to English arrivals
• Efforts by London to stem outflow of skilled
  English
• Efforts by London to encourage settlement by
  others
• Africans
• English convicts
• Scots and Scots-Irish
• Germans

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Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
(contd)

• Lures to settlement
• 1. Religious diversity
• 2. Availability of land
• 3. Demand for skills
• 4. Other freedoms and opportunities
• Indians and the colonies
• 1. Place in imperial system as traders,
  consumers, military allies
• 2. Growing conflict with backcountry settlers
• Patterns of agriculture
• 1. New England
• 2. Backcountry
• 3. Middle Colonies

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Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
(contd)

• Place of colonies in consumer revolution
• As producer of goods
• As consumer of goods
• Colonial cities
• Growth
• Functions
• Financial
• Commercial
• Cultural
• Merchants
• Artisans

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Social classes in the colonies

• Elites
• Rising dominance
• Regional variants
• Mercantile elite of New England and Middle
  Colonies
• Planter elite of Chesapeake and Lower South
• Means of social and political hegemony
• Anglicization
• Aristocratic lifestyle
• Hierarchical worldview

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VI. Social classes in the colonies (contd)

• The poor
• Spread of poverty
• Slaves
• Landless tenants and wage earners
• Attitudes and policies toward the poor
• Image as responsible for own poverty
• Workhouses
• Apprenticeship
• Warning out of and expulsion from communities
• Middling ranks
• Predominance of
• Basis in land ownership
• Gender divisions of labor

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