Anne Hutchinson Trial

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Anne Hutchinson Trial

• What was her crime?
• How does this reflect Puritan attitude?
• How was the trial like a trial today? How not?

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Colonial Expansion
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1. Connecticut

• Founded by Thomas Hooker
• Thought puritans were too severe

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2. Rhode Island

• Roger Williams
• questioned puritans
• banished from colony
• starts Providence, RI

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contd

• preaches separation of church and state

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Anne Hutchinson(another founder of RI)

• said puritans were teaching ONLY works not grace

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Contd

• flees to Newport, RI
• unite with Providence to form Rhode Island

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3. Carolinas

• 1663 business men receive charter for Carolina
  (land south of VA)

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Carolinas Constitution included

• term limits
• secret ballots
• bicameral legislature

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Carolinas Economics

• raised cattle and hogs
• kidnapped Indians and sold as slaves

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4. South Carolina Separates

• Build shipping industry, Charleston grows

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Contd

• rice plantations, increase slave demand
• 1730 2/3rds of colony were African slaves

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5. New York

• 1664 Duke of York gets charter
• Dutch there, but dont resist

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New Yorks Government

• Duke ruled without any elected assembly
• Upsets people, found NJ

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6. New Jersey

• John Berkeley and George Carteret officially
  given the charter to NJ colony in 1665
• Elected assembly

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7. Pennsylvania

• William Penn gets charter
• Founds Quaker Colony

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Quaker Beliefs

• Believed God dwelt in each person as the inner
  light
• pacifists
• Equality of all people

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Quaker Families

• Women had almost full equality
• more affectionate
• Did not socialize with non-Quakers

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PAs government

• voters would vote on laws
• No death penalty except for murder
• Religious
• freedom

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Examining US today

• What region is the most ethically diverse?
• What region is the most religious?

• If you break down the country Midwest, west
  coast, southwest, Atlantic seaboard, what are the
  economies of these regions based on?
• What region do you think has the best education?

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Characteristics of Colonies
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1. Life Expectancy

• Longest in New England

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2. Race and Ethnicity

• Farther South, more diverse population

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3. Economics

• South sugar, rice,
• tobacco supported by slave labor
• Mid-Atlantic farming
• New England fishing and lumber industries

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4. Religion and Education

• More educated and religious the farther north you
  went

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Unifying Elements

• Conflict with Native Americans
• English Law
• Break away from Strict Inheritance practices

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Recap Question

• To this point what direct control has Great
  Britain had over these colonies?

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English Attitude Towards its colonies

• Stage 1 explore settle
• Stage 2 ignore 1640s
• English Civil War
• Colonists govern self
• Trade w/o restriction

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Stage 3 Re-discover and Attempt to Assert Control

• Mercantilism power obtained through trading
  with colonies
• First Navigation
• Act 1650
• No foreign ships in
• English colonies

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Contd

• Navigation Acts of 1660 tobacco and sugar can
  only be shipped to England
• Staple Act of 1663 Goods coming in to colonies
  had to go to England first

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• Plantation Duty Act sent custom offices to
  collect duty (tax) on certain items and prosecute
  people that violated trade laws

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Lords of Trade
Contd

• Committee to enforce Navigation Acts
• But no real penalties
• Colonies could have own government, but must pay
  for it
• increases precedent of self government