Chapter 2. Transplantations and Borderlands
We will be focusing on the English colonization of North America and the unique characteristics of New England vs. the Mid-Atlantic vs. the Chesapeake and South.
The specific focus of this unit will be on:
A. English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South
B. From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
C. Religious diversity in the American colonies
D. Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolts
Help with Annotated Colonial Map:
Textbook Chapter:
A Biography of America Video Explanation (pop up window)
Homework Assignments:
Part 1 - Textbook Notes
- Summarize each section with a 2-3 sentence statement.
- Sections are bolded in blue and in ALL CAPITALS.
- Ideas/themes to know and include in your notes:
Jamestown, VA
The Starving Time
Indentured Servants
Maryland Toleration Act - 1649
Gov. William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pilgrims and Plymouth Plantation
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson- antinomianism
King Philip's War
Carolina colonies
Capture of New Amsterdam
Quakers [Society of Friends]
Caribbean colonies
California missions
Spanish Borderlands
James Oglethorpe
“Middle grounds”
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Edmund Andros
Jacob Leisler
Part 2 - Short Answer Question: COMPLETE SENTENCES ONLY - Answer all parts of the question in full. 3/4ths page minimum response.
- Compare and contrast labor systems in the New England colonies and labor systems in the southern colonies in the period from 1607-1775. Identify ONE important difference and ONE important similarity between labor systems. Briefly explain ONE factor that accounts for the difference that you provided.
Part 3 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter and should be defined on the bottom of the textbook notes. The following exercises should be completed after you have separately defined the words.
mercantilism
indenture
charter
proprietary
dissident
cumbersome
unorthodox
predestination
exacerbate
lucrative
debauch
Context Exercise: Determine whether the boldface word from the list makes sense in the context of the sentence. Circle the bolded words that are INCORRECT and write the correct vocabulary word from the list instead.
1. For a time, the English government made no serious efforts to restrict this challenge to the principles of predestination, but gradually it began passing laws to regulate colonial trade.
2. Although Africans continued to trickle steadily into the colony, planters continued to prefer European indentured servants until at least the 1670s, when such servants began to become scarce and expensive.
3. Only a few months after receiving its proprietary papers, the company launched a colonizing expedition headed for Virginia—a party of 144 men aboard three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery, and the Susan Constant.
4. Other communities of dissidents followed him to what became Rhode Island, and in 1644 Williams obtained a charter from Parliament permitting him to establish a government.
5. It replaced the earlier staple of colonial musketry, the matchlock rifle, which proved too heavy, mercantilistic, and inaccurate to be useful in the kind of combat characteristic of Anglo-Indian struggles.
6. Anne Hutchinson’s unorthodox views challenged both religious belief and social order in Puritan Massachusetts.
7. Now land and food shortages exacerbated the drastic Indian population decline that had begun as a result of epidemic diseases.
8. But they soon discovered that the most lucrative crop was sugar, for which there was a substantial and growing market in Europe.
9. William Penn believed, as had Roger Williams, that the land belonged to the Indians, and he was careful to see that they were reimbursed for it, as well as to see that they were not debauched by the fur traders’ alcohol.
Completing the Sentence Choose the word from the list that best completes each of the following sentences. Write the correct word or form of the word in the space provided.
1. Colonies such as Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, ________________ to an individual or trading company, by the British crown, were given broad control of the colony under royal authority.
2. Mary’s mother probably was an ________________ servant from England, like 80 percent of all free women who immigrated to the Chesapeake at that time.
3. Under ______________________, the British crown established economic monopolies that were protected against the rigors of competition in the marketplace.
4. This term is not only misleading, it is also ________________ and hard to remember.
5. A ________________ colony was a type of British colony that established nearly complete self-rule to the individual(s) granted the land.
6. Or worse influenced by religious beliefs such as the various conservative Protestant strains of Calvinism that stress ________________, or that God has willed all events beforehand.
7. They were the latest indigenous activists to be targeted among a resurgence of violence by ________________ rebel groups and paramilitaries.
8. In spite of his unconventional and ________________ views on history and his profession as a chef, he was very successful as an author and speaker.
9. Two-fifths of the city lies below sea level, and some areas are subsiding by as much as 10 inches a year — a phenomenon caused by the digging of underground aquifers and ________________ by climate change.
10. The long stay on a tropical isle had ________________ the ship's crew to the point where they no longer acted like naval professionals; craving the excesses of tropical fruit and fish rather than hardtack and water.
11. The YouTube star also lost several endorsement deals following the scandal, but the Post reported she hopes eventually her added name recognition would lend itself to more ________________ opportunities.
Would you like to practice some of the vocabulary from this week's textbook chapter? Here is a quick link:
Chapter 2 vocab
References:
Mayflower History Pages
Passenger lists, journals, and historical essays about the founders of Plymouth.
( http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/ )
Virtual Jamestown
Primary documents, historical articles, and a timeline for the first settlement in Virginia.
( http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/ )
The American Colonies in the 17th Century: Politics
Primary documents from 17th Century New England, including John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity," The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, and Cotton Mather's "Discourse on Witchcraft."
( http://history.hanover.edu/project.html#us )
New Amsterdam
Essays decribing the Dutch colonization process. Read the first essay on the earliest settlers and then click on Next to read the piece on the development of New Amsterdam
( http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/newnetherlands/nl2.htm )
Essays and Information on Puritanism in America
Essays on Puritanism in New England and links to pages about its impact and the Salem Witch Trials.
( http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/puritan.htm )
Early Georgia History
Collection of primary and secondary sources on Georgia's first two centuries after European contact. Many links for other sites on southern colonies.
( http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/early/ )
Indian Wars
History of all Indian Wars in Colonial America
( http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring10/war.cfm )
Daily life in New England
A good resource to help you understand how life was lived during the Colonial Period.
( http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/turns/index.jsp )
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