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| '''BIG IDEAS''' | | '''BIG IDEAS''' |
| * tobacco in VA and MD | | * plantation economy |
| * rice/ indigo in SVC | | * social/ economic stratification |
| | * frontier settlements & conflict with Native Americans |
| | * Bacon's rebellion |
| | * expansion of slavery |
| | *** by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves |
| | '''DETAILS''' |
| | * cash crops: |
| | ** tobacco in NC, VA and MD |
| | ** rice/ indigo in SC |
| * plantation economy | | * plantation economy |
| ** increasing use of slaves | | ** increasing use of slaves |
| *** by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves
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| * demographics | | * demographics |
| ** stratification of southern society | | ** stratification of southern society |
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Revision as of 02:13, 8 May 2021
US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries
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US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries
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Colonial America growth
PERIOD / TIMELINE
- 1578 Foribsher expedition to find Northwest Passage
- failed but spurred British interest in North America
- 1634 Maryland founded by Catholic George Calvart
- 1681, William Penn granted charter for Pennsylvania
- 1614 Tobacco 1st shipped to England
- 1642 English Civil War
- 1651 British Navigation Act
- 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
- 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
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Major Events, Concepts & Themes
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Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
BIG IDEAS
DETAILS
- Tobacco
- John Rolfe planted seed from Trinidad in Virginia
- 1614 fist tobacco shipment to England
- spurred colonial projection
- 1634 Maryland founded
- by Catholic George Calvert, Lord Baltimore; granted by English King Charles I
- first prioprietary colony = owned and governed by an individual
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Southern colonial economies & demographics[edit | edit source]
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Southern colonial economies & demographics
PERIOD / TIMELINE
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Major Events, Concepts & Themes
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Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
BIG IDEAS
- plantation economy
- social/ economic stratification
- frontier settlements & conflict with Native Americans
- Bacon's rebellion
- expansion of slavery
- by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves
DETAILS
- cash crops:
- tobacco in NC, VA and MD
- rice/ indigo in SC
- plantation economy
- demographics
- stratification of southern society
- Southern gentry
- large estates
- gentry lifestyle, including hunting, horse racing, gambling, dancing
- coastal or Tidewater elites based on plantations and ports
- indentured servants and "backcountry" farmers:
- half of indentures servants died in colonies before earning freedom
- yoeman farmers owned their land, engaged in subsistence farming
- many former servants become tenent farmers (rent not land ownership) due to costs of land surveys, fees, farming equipment & animals, etc.
- general trend is towards small-farm ownership and westward expansion in search for new lands to farm
Bacon's rebellion
- background:
- Governor Sr. William Berkely
- controlled House of Burgesses via political patronage and favors among elites
- exempted himself and ruling "governor council" members from taxes
- restricted right to vote to property ownership (cut vote rolls by half)
- growing conflict with Native Americans over colonial encroachment on frontier lands
- 1675 war between Native Americans and frontier settlers
- coastal elites did not want war with Indians
- Nathaniel Bacon
- = wealthy landowner, buys frontier land, attacked by Indians
- member of the governor's council
- but sides with frontier farmers on war with Native Americans
- Bacon leads his own militia to fight Native Americans
- Gov Berkeley calls for new election
- but new legislators back Bacon and authorize militia
- also restores vote to all free men and removed Berkeley's tax exemptions
- Bacon still opposes Berkeley regime, with small army takes over capital at Jamestown and charges Berkeley with corruption
- Berkeley flees, raises his own army and battles Bacon's army
- Bacon escapes but dies while hiding in a swamp and his army disintegrate
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Colonial slavery
PERIOD / TIMELINE
- 1619 first Africans colonial America
- 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
- 1705 Virginia slave code enacted
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Major Events, Concepts & Themes
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Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
BIG IDEAS
DETAILS
- 1619: first African slaves brought to British colonies by Dutch merchants
- British entry to slave trade via Royal African Company (1672)
- 1680s growth in central / south colonies
slavery & slave culture
- growth in slavery in 1680s
- after Bacon's rebellion wealthy planters increased reliance on slaves instead of indentured servants
- expanding frontiers, especially in Pennsylvania, had diminished flow of indentured servants
- increase in transatlantic slave trade, including by British under the Royal African Company starting 1672
- slave culture
- maintain oral traditions, songs
- mixture of African and colonial cultures
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