The Restoration Colonies

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The Restoration Colonies
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Settling the Middle or Restoration Colonies
GOALS ? profit and individual betterment.
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New Netherlands New Sweden

• Founded in the 1660s by
• Friends of British King Charles II.
• Land speculators.
• Middle class farmers craftsmen.

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More Like Later America Than Other Regions!

• Economic diversity.
• Large cities ? more cosmopolitan culture.
• Some slavery 6-12 of the population.
• Ethnic and religious diversity.
• Religious toleration.
• Bread Colonies.

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New York Manors Land Grants Patroonships Owner
of company
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New York Harbor, 1639
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New Amsterdam
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Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Amsterdam
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Peter Stuyvesant

• Major figure in the early history of New York
  City (New Netherlands)
• Built protective wall on Wall St.
• Built the canal that became Broad Street
• Developed Broadway

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New York Then and Now
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William Penn
Preached religious freedom Equal treatment of
Native Americans Founded the Society of
Friends aka. Quakers Given a royal land
grant by Charles II to found PA
The Holy Experiment
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Royal Land Grant to Penn
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Penn Native Americans

• Believed Natives should be treated fair
• If land was taken, market price should be given
  as compensation
• Both equal white and Native representation for
  disputes

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Penns Treaty with theNative Americans
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Urban Population Growth1650 - 1775
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Ethnic Groups
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Settling the Lower South

• 1660s 1730s
• The Carolinas Georgia.
• Planters yeomen farmers from VA or the Sugar
  Islands.
• Debtors other petty criminals.

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Port of Charles Town, SC
The only southern port city.
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Crops of the Carolinas
Rice
Indigo
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Rice Indigo Exportsfrom SC GA 1698-1775
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Founder of Georgia
A buffer zone between Britains North American
colonies Spanish Florida.
JamesOglethorpe
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The Trustees of Georgia
Painted by William Verelst, 1734
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1733 Savannah
Grill pattern of settlement.
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18c Southern Colonies
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1670 - 1680 A Decade of Crisis
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King Philips War,1675 1676

• Conflict between the Native tribes of New England
  and English settlers (also some Natives)
• Over half of the colonists towns (90ish) were
  attacked
• About 1 of 65 colonists were killed (one of the
  highest ratios in American history
• War ends when Metacom is killed

Metacom, known to the English as King Phillip
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King Philips War,1675 1676)