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    Colonization: What You Should Know

To be educated you should know the following Three Areas of English Colonization  Region Colony (Model) Year Themes South Virginia Virginia Maryland Carolina (North & South) Georgia 1607 Tobacco Slavery Plantation Republicanism New England Massachusetts Bay Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut 1630 Salvation Puritanism Town, Church, & Community Covenant Mid Atlantic Pennsylvania New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware 1682 Quakers Trade Urban Commerce Individualism     South The story of the colony at Roanoke. The founding of the Virginia Colony - politics, economics, native relations, labor, changing ideas and expectations. How indentured servitude gave way to chattel slavery New England Founding of the Puritan Colonies in New England: Massachusetts Bay - politics, economics, native relations, labor, changing ideas and expectations. Political events in England leading to Puritan colonization How Puritans organized  churches, colonial governments, towns, and their own lives. Native relations. Calvinism and Predestination as understood by the Puritans Roger Williams's "Perfectionist Challenge" to Orthodoxy and Ann Hutchinson's "Anti-Nomian" Crisis The Half Way Covenant and the "Declension" of the New England Way Salem Witch Trials The Great Awakening New England economy, trade and dependency on foreign trade with Indies, Europe and indirectly, with Africa. Mid Atlantic The founding of the Pennsylvania - politics, economics, native relations, labor, changing ideas and expectations. Mercantilism: Central State Control over Trade Use of Colonies (direction of their development) to benefit the "mother country," the "metropolis." Acts of Trade and Navigation, 1660 -- Regulation of trade within empire, and between the empire and the outside world Prohibited trade with colonies except on English ships (including colonial-built ships Prohibited direct transport of goods from colonies to places outside the English empire, except through England Prohibited colonial production of "enumerated goods" (e.g., iron, hats) Board of Trade and Plantations, 1675- Overall administration of the Imperial system/regulations established (and regularly amended) by succeeding acts of trade and navigation Admiralty Courts, 1696 Enforcement of the Acts of Trade and Navigation; punishment of violations Governing Principle of the Imperial System: "Salutary Neglect" from 1660 to 1763 Between 1700 and 1760 the colonial population mushroomed from 250,000 to 1.6 million persons—and to 2.5 million by 1775. Where did these people come from? Where did they go? What changes in transportation, farming, and economics affected this migration? How did the multi ethnicity of the immigrants shape the character of the different colonies?