English Colonies II

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English Colonies II

• Massachusetts Splinters
• Maryland
• The Carolinas
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Georgia

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Trouble Makers in Mass.

• Massachusetts strict village code
• Roger Williams rebels against Winthrop
• No separation of church and state
• Indians mistreated, exiled
• He starts Rhode Island Religious freedom
• Ann Hutchinson More dangerous rebel
• Well educated, midwife, 15 children
• Divine inspiration, antinomianist, exiled

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Maryland (1634)

• Proprietary Calvert, Lord Baltimore
• He was a Catholic, 9 million acres
• Charged rents, made all laws
• Lord of the manor, large and small plots
• Tried to create a aristocratic class
• Settlers ignored this, local assembly
• Toleration Act of 1649 Religious freedom

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The Carolinas (1663)

• 8 Proprietors
• John Colleton Barbados (sugar plantation)
• Tried to set up aristocratic society
• Anthony Ashly Cooper 1669
• Redrew Charter, landownership
• More local rule
• 50 from Barbados with slave knowledge
• Exported to Caribean cattle, food, rice, dye

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New York (1664), New Jersey

• Originally Dutch mismanaged
• Duke of York he attacked Ditch in 1664
• He was sole Proprietor total rule,
• No local assembly, English law
• New Jersey gave land to two Dukes
• Lord Berkeley Sir Carteret
• Small land plots, local rule

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Pennsylvania (1682)

• Quakers Society of Friends,
• All have an Inner Light. no minister,
• No ritual, passive resistance, modest,
• No original sin or predestination
• William Penn a Quaker, proprietor
• King paid debt, Philadelphia sea port
• Charter of Liberties religious freedom, indiv
  rights, no executive, one assembly, diverse
  population, small farmers, became biggest city

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William Penn
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Georgia (1733)

• Proprietors Philanthropists
• James Oglethorpe help criminals
• King buffer against Spanish Florida
• Laws no slavery, no rum, 50 acre plots
• Becomes slave economy people wanted
• To make a profit, large land and slavery,
• Oglethorpe goes home 1752