I.
Distinctive Aspect of American Colonies
A. Land
of Opportunity
B. Tradition
of Politics
C. Lack
of supervision
II. History
of England in the 17th Century
A. Charles
I (reigned 1625-1649)
B. English
Revolution and Cromwell (1642)
C. Charles
II and the Restoration (reigned 1660-1685)
D. Glorious
Revolution - William and Mary (1688)
E. How
does this affect the American colonies?
III. New
England Colonies
A. Massachusetts
1. Massachusetts
Bay Colony
2. John
Winthrop
B. Connecticut
1. Thomas
Hooker
2. Fundamental
Orders of Connecticut (1639)
C.
New Hampshire
D. Rhode
Island and Roger Williams
E. Anne
Hutchinson
IV. Salem
Witch Trials (1692-3)
A. Background
1. King
Philip's War (1675-6)
2. The
Scene in Salem
3. Witchcraft
4. Religious
Intolerance
B. What
happened?
C. The
Trials
D. How
it ended
E. Lessons
F. What
Caused the Witch Hunt?
1. 18th
and 19th century theories
2. psychological
analysis
3. social
and economic analysis
4. what
made Salem unique
5. family
history
V. The
Middle Colonies
A. New
York
1. Henry
Hudson
2. Peter
Minuit and New Amsterdam
3. New
Amsterdam becomes New York
B. New
Jersey
C. William
Penn and Pennsylvania
D. Delaware
VI. Southern
Colonies
A. Maryland
1. George
Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
2. Toleration
Act
B. Nathaniel
Bacon and Virginia
C. The
Carolinas
1. West
Indies
2. Triangular
Trade
3. Lords
Proprietors and Carolina Charter of 1663
4. Split
into North and South (1712)
D. Georgia
1. James
Oglethorpe
2. Goals
of Colony and what happened
VII. Colonialism
and Slavery
A. Early
Colonial Period and Roots of Slavery
B. Africa
C. Beginnings
in the New World and Why Slavery Concentrated in the South
1. Decline
of Indentured Servants
2.
Geographic and Economic Reasons
D.
International Slave Trade