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NEW ENGLAND
• Hampshire, England • Massachusetts – Native
American “living near the Big Hill”
• Native American Quinnehtukqut (beside the long tidal river)
• Rhode means red in Dutch (from the red clay)
Rhode Island and Connecticut– more freedom than with the Puritans in
Massachusetts • Roger Williams • Anne Hutchinson
• Thomas Hooker Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Representative Government
NEW ENGLAND TOWN MEETING
• CONGREGATIONALIST CHURCH MEETINGS
• no pope, no bishop
Middle Atlantic
• New York – York, England (king’s brother Duke of York)
• Pennsylvania (Penn’s woods –Latin sylva)
• New Jersey—Jersey Island, England
• Delaware— Lord De la Warr (proprietor)
Pennsylvania 1681
• William Penn • A haven for Quakers
(Society of Friends)
• Believe in – Non violence – Do not fight in war, but
serve in medical corps – No priests, ministers,
rabbis – Against slavery – For Native American rights – Called each other “thee”
and “thou” – Do not use titles
South • Maryland – Queen
Henrietta Maria • Virginia—Queen
Elizabeth the Virgin • North and South
Carolina—King Charles II (in Latin Carol)
• Georgia—King George
Southern Towns
• Baltimore • Jamestown • Williamsburg • Richmond • Wilmington • Charleston • Savannah • Atlanta (later)
Maryland 1632
• George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
• A haven for Roman Catholics
• Maryland Toleration Act 1649– religious freedom for all Christians
• Hate speech against other Christians fined
Jamestown, Virginia 1607 • Founded by a Joint
stock company to make a profit - GOLD!
• Found tobacco instead • John Rolfe stole sweet
Caribbean tobacco, and made it grow in Virginia, and married Pocahontas
In the beginning, there was little legal difference between servants and enslaved (enslaved could buy
their freedom or have “half-freedom”)
• First person known to be enslaved– John Punch, 1640—as punishment for running away—European indentured servants only served for more years
Slave Trade– Triangular trade Middle Passage
• Tobacco and rice from North America (on New England ships)
• To England • Guns to African kingdoms • African dictator kings kidnap enemies • Kidnapped people are sent to North America