- THE SETTLEMENT OF COLONIAL AMERICA (OVERVIEW)
- comparison of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay
- different reasons for their founding
- different demographic patterns
- different economies
- both experienced "shifts", but of different types
- ENGLAND'S PROBLEMS IN THE LATE 16TH AND EARLY 17TH CENTURIES
- THE SETTLEMENT OF COLONIAL AMERICA (VIRGINIA)
- the importance of John Smith and John Rolfe (tobacco)
- indentured servitude
- Reforms of 1618
- end of martial law
- headights system
- representative government
- 1622 Opechancanough Massacre and white vengeance
- 1624 loss of charter and Virginia becomes a royal colony
- 1639 Charles I recognizes the Virginia Burgessses for expedient reasons
- Stuarts--colonization for reasons of expediency
- PLYMOUTH COLONY--SEPARATISTS (PILGRIMS) IN PLYMOUTH
- THE SETTLEMENT OF COLONIAL AMERICA (MASSACHUSETTS BAY)
- different reason for founding; different economy
- Puritans in Massachusetts Bay--an overview of Puritan beliefs
- the colony as a "City Upon a Hill" of an "Errand Into the Wilderness"
- General Court and "freemen"
- town charters and community control to promote godly behavior
- Challenges to Puritan Orthodoxy
- Roger Williams
- Anne Hutchinson
- COMPARISON OF VIRGINIA AND MASSACHUSETTS BAY
- different reasons for founding
- different economies
- different demographic patterns
- different "shifts"
- Massachusetts Bay (shift away from the ideals of the founders and reasons for the shift)
- 1662 "Half-Way Covenant"
- change from common ownership
- Virginia (shift away from indentured servitude to slavery and the reasons for the shift)
- PRECONDITIONS FOR STRUGGLE WITH GREAT BRITAIN
- overview of mercantilism (advantages/disadvantages)
- objectives of the Navigation Acts
- overview of imperial administration
- not uniform
- decentralized
- not rational
- inefficient
- haphazard
- structure of colonial governments
- Governor
- Council
- Assembly
- TWO-SIDED EVOLUTION OF POWER BY THE MID-18TH CENTURY
- rise of assemblies (the assemblies won powers that they wanted to preserve and maintain)
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- defacto autonomy of the colonies
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- haphazard administration
- governors as "paper tigers"
- Salutary Neglect
- TWO MAJOR DISCREPANCIES IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND GREAT BRITAIN
- the discrepancy between imperial theory and colonial reality
- the discrepancy in interpretations of the parent-child metaphor
Originally, colonial protest was a conservative desire to preserve the rights, expectations, traditions, and institutions of the colonists as Englishmen. The colonists wanted to maintain a grip on their understanding of the past. The colonists wanted to preserve what they believed was their assemblies' equality with Parliament.