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Virginia
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-1607 (founded)
-1609-1610, John Smith and Sir Thomas Smith leaders, winter so bad people were cannibalistic -John Ralfe discovered a milder tobacco -House of Burgess, 1618, house of reprisentatives -Indians tried to drive colonists out |
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Plymouth Rock
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-Nov. 1620, William Bradford leader
-Reason came was because people thought their children were too Dutch -Mayflower compact >Democratic compact, all males >The compact explained how the government was set up -Indians helped colonists |
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New Netherlands
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-1624, Henry Hudson
-Immigrants came over because they were paid -Many different races, by 1640 there were free blacks -Calvinism big part >Calvinism stresses omnipotence of God, predestination |
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Massachusettes Bay Colony
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-August 1629, John Winthrop and 12 associates gathered together and signed the Camebridge agreement, allowed Puritans to migrate
-Charles I, in 1629, tried ruling England without parliment, by 1640 Charles took parliment back -1536, Puritans believed in John Calvins's religion -Great Migration >1630, 20,000 people left for MB, by 1640 over 16,000 had arrived in the colony -Congregationalism >An innovated form of church government, each village church was independent -Neither democracy or theocracy |
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Maryland
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-March 1634, George Calvert
>1634 settlers came, 1632 Charles I granted charter -Settlers were Catholic and Protestant -Government was a social hierarchy, Lord Baltimore II on top, then to colonial class -Act Concerning Religion 1649 >Extended toleration to everyone who accepted divinity |
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Rhode Island
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-1666 Charter Date
-1663 Roger Williams banished from MB, Anne Hutchinson was a greater threat >Because the court couldn't deal with his ideas/demands >Anne confessed "The Spirit can live without moral law" |
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Conneticut
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-1635, Thomas Hooker, helped New Englanders through his writings defining Congregational Church
-Settlers came because of fertile lands -1639, Orders of Blue Prints passed, first written constitution |
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New York
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-1664, England took colony from Dutch
>Crown was eager to score an easy victory >Peter Stuyvesant, last director general, 1647 -Duke's Laws, a legal code that guranteed religious toleration, and local government |
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New Jersey
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-Duke of York gave land to John Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret
-Gov. Nichols of NY was angry, he gave land to Duke, colonists came expecting it to be free, new owners expected rent -1674, NJ broke into East and West Jersey, fighting between the two >Propietors became bankrupt and brought EJ and WJ together in 1702 |
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Carolinas
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-Formed from restoration of Sturarts (to English throne)
-Propietors hoped to gain income through rent -1669 Ashley Cooper convinced proprietor to invest in the colony -By 1680 colonists had lots of cattle, and traded with Indians |
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Pennsylvania
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-1681 charter
-Not sure how William Penn got his land -Quakers believed everyone had innerlight and was equal -Holy Experiment >All religions could get along if no judging -1682, Penn blended traditional notations to form government |
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Georgia
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-1733 founded, 1732 charter, James Oglethorpe
-Place of assyllum, original intention -Colony was dictatorship -Oglethorpe tried to take Spanish in 1740, didn't work |
