Summer Reading

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• Summer ReadingEarly Colonial Era Review

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Common motivations for all European Exploration
in the New World

• Power Prestige
• Profit
• Religion

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Purposes of the Colonies

• Profits
• Raw Materials/Columbian Exchange
• Mercantilism

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The Creation of Colonial Identity, 1607-1763

• Economic Salutary Neglect, South Atlantic System
• Geographic Regional Diversity
• Intellectual Enlightenment Great Awakening

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What made the Northern Colonies unique?

• New England
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut

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Puritan Society

• Theocracy led by Gov. John Winthrop -- City
  Upon A Hill
• Results of Puritans?
• How did the religious dissenters who founded New
  England deal with dissent within their own sect?

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Political Independent Spirit of New England
Established
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What made the Middle Colonies unique?

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• Delaware

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Tolerance in Middle Colonies

• Most diverse backgrounds religions
• Most tolerant

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What made the Southern Colonies unique?

• Chesapeake
• (Maryland, Virginia)
• Lower South
• (North Carolina,
• South Carolina, Georgia)

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Laborers Landowners

• Headright system
• Indentured Servitude vs. Slavery
• Yeoman Farmers vs. Landed Gentry

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British-Native Relations in Chesapeake

• Why would lower class farmers follow the wealthy
  Nathaniel Bacon into rebellion against the local
  aristocracy?
• Results of Bacons Rebellion?

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Colonial Cultural/Intellectual Changes by Mid
1700s Demonstrate Alternative Thinking in the
Colonies

• 1st Great Awakening
• Old Lights vs. New Lights
• Revivalism
• New Denominations
• Enlightenment
• Deism
• Franklin