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British Colonial America 1600 - 1776

British Colonial America 1600 - 1776. Chapter 5 – 17 th century Chapter 6 – 18 th century. England – The Great Migration. Slow beginning (little activity prior to 1600) Cabots: Find Northwest Passage Martin Frobisher – 3 voyages in 1570s Elizabethan Sea Dogs (1558 – 1603).

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British Colonial America 1600 - 1776

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  1. British Colonial America1600 - 1776 Chapter 5 – 17th century Chapter 6 – 18th century

  2. England – The Great Migration • Slow beginning (little activity prior to 1600) • Cabots: Find Northwest Passage • Martin Frobisher – 3 voyages in 1570s • Elizabethan Sea Dogs (1558 – 1603)

  3. Map of sea voyages

  4. Early English Migration Map

  5. England – The Great Migration • Slow beginning (little activity prior to 1600) • Cabots: Find Northwest Passage • Martin Frobisher – 3 voyages in 1570s • Elizabethan Sea Dogs (1558 – 1603) • Yet, by 1650 – 50,000 english migrants • Caribbean • Chesapeake Bay (Jamestown) • New England • Why?

  6. Reasons for migration: • England is overpopulated • Expand to new markets – e.g., wool • Precious metals – gold!! • New source of olive oil, wine, etc?? • Route to the Indies • Protestant Zeal • These were motives all the way; thru 1770s

  7. English Colonial System • French/Spanish – centralized; governed from New World capitals • England – 13 separate colonies • Great differences • Many disputes – e.g., boundaries

  8. Chapter 5 – Colonial Origins of Anglo America: Europeanization(1700 – 250,000 population) Chapter 6 – Colonial America in 18th Century: Americanization (1776 – 2,500,000 population)

  9. Epicenters Plymouth Rock

  10. Colonial Organization (1606) • Royal Charter – by King James • Council – politicians and merchants who would recruit and define governmental structure • Two bodies given the charge • Virginia Company of Plymouth (41 – 45 degrees) • Virginia Company of London (34 – 38 degrees) • Latitude between – either one

  11. Map of Virginia Companies latitude of influence

  12. Conditions of the Charters • Inland for 100 miles • All rights of trade with natives • Exploitation of precious metals (1/5 to crown) • Consideration to the Natives • Offered true religion • Offered peaceful governance • All their lands passed to the two companies • (Note: ignored claims of France and Spain)

  13. JamestownApril, 16073 ships James River (50 miles)

  14. Jamestown - early history(London Group) • Bad site – low and swampy • Death and misery • Trading post • Male population • Working for the company • 1616-1624: change to permanent colony • Profitable product • System of landholding

  15. National Geog Exhibit

  16. Factor #1 - King Tobacco • Indigenous to new world • Indies better variety –John Rolfe • Ubiquitous! • Ugh! • One-crop economy • Dependent on England for supplies • Soil depletion • Labor intensive

  17. Not everybody liked it!! • "Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." -- James I of England, "A Counterblaste to Tobacco."

  18. Factor # 2 – Private Property Headright system 50 acres/head Capt. Adam Throughgood – this guy accumulated 1105 headrights over 20 years!! Result Plantation economy – large and dispersed; NOT towns 1650 – Jamestown had 30 houses • Today

  19. Factor #3 – Sex! • 1620 – very few women; active program to “import” unmarried women • Etc. • Etc. • Etc. • Etc. • Etc.

  20. Plantation Economy • Rivers as far as navigable – fall line • Landings for ocean-going vessels • All planters had direct line to England • In Between – forest primeval and the “hill country”

  21. Jamestown Population • Mixed population – reflected classes of English society • 30% - rural middle class; paid their own way • Majority – poor tenants, laborers, and un-employed artisans: Redundant Population

  22. Map - Atlantic Slave Trade

  23. Slavery • Tobacco culture – labor intensive and large land-holding • Indentured labor unreliable, lacked permanence, also thirsted for their own land; flow from England reduced • Virginia and Maryland population growth in 1660-1700 (35,000 to 88,000) • African Slaves • 1670-1700: 12,000 slaves to Chesapeake

  24. 1700 – your text • By the end of the century (1700) there was distinct evidence of regional homogeneity within the Chesapeake. The commitment to a tobacco plantation and slave system, with its consequent class structure, was widespread. Life was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, dispersed, and decentralized.

  25. Map – Chesapeake Growth

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