AP USH NOTES

Virginia – London Company/VA Company profit motive arrive spring of 1607, est. Jamestown disease, food a low priority, gold a high priority  cannot sustain itself
Thomas Dale allows private ownership and cultivation of land
John Rolfe – tobacco  high demand headright system
House of Burgesses – 1st form of representative govt
VA Company faces bankruptcy, James I revokes charter  VA a royal colony
Bacon’s Rebellion
Frontiersmen against landed aristocracy  wouldn’t protect frontier from native attacks
Significance  defined boundary between Indian and White lands, showed settlers’ unwillingness to follow agreements with natives, and how unwilling natives were to tolerate further white movement into their territory
Uncovered potential for instability in large indentured population  put landowners in danger  better to move to slavery

Maryland – real estate venture and retreat for Catholics survive with help from natives politics plagued by rivalry between Catholics and Protestants labor shortage  headright system
Act of Toleration in 1649 - religious freedom to all Christians

Caribbean Settlement - Europeans crop exportation economy - sugar and rum intense labor  slaves

Massachusetts - Puritan Separatists
Sept 1620 - Mayflower, arrived Dec 21, 1620 settled on Plymouth, Capt John Smith discovered earlier
Mayflower Compact - first form of constitution - est. civil govt and proclaimed allegiance to king made alliance with natives  Thanksgiving theocracy - thin line between church and state  religious intolerant
“city upon a hill” John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson - only elect entitled to religious or political authority (conversion experience), believed people could communicate to god without ministers or Bible  against Puritan belief  banished
Antinomianism – hatred towards the law; ministers not elected, etc

Connecticut - Thomas Hooker (minister) - Puritan stricter govt than Boston
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -