American Life in the 17Th Century

Chapter 4

American Life in the 17th Century

1607-1692

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PERIOD 2: 1607–1754
Key Concept 2.1: Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.
I. Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers had different economic and imperial goals involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations. / A) Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations, converting them to Christianity, and incorporating them, along with enslaved and free Africans, into the Spanish colonial society. / B) French and Dutch colonial efforts involved relatively few Europeans and relied on trade alliances and intermarriage with American Indians to build economic and diplomatic relationships and acquire furs and other products for export to Europe. / C) English colonization efforts attracted a comparatively large number of male and female British migrants, as well as other European migrants, all of whom sought social mobility, economic prosperity, religious freedom, and improved living conditions. These colonists focused on
agriculture and settled on land taken from Native Americans, from whom they lived separately.
II. In the 17th century, early British colonies developed along the Atlantic coast, with regional
differences that reflected various environmental, economic, cultural, and demographic factors. / A) The Chesapeake and North Carolina colonies grew prosperous exporting tobacco — a labor-intensive product initially cultivated by white, mostly male indentured servants and later by enslaved Africans.
B) The New England colonies, initially settled by Puritans, developed around small towns with family farms and achieved a thriving mixed economy of agriculture and commerce. / C) The middle colonies supported a flourishing export economy based on cereal crops and attracted a broad range of European migrants, leading to societies with greater cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity and tolerance. / D) The colonies of the southernmost Atlantic coast and the British West Indies used long growing
seasons to develop plantation economies based on exporting staple crops. They depended on the labor of enslaved Africans, who often constituted the majority of the population in these areas and developed their own forms of cultural and religious autonomy. / E) Distance and Britain’s initially lax attention led to the colonies creating self-governing institutions that were unusually democratic for the era. The New England colonies based power in participatory town meetings, which in turn elected members to their colonial legislatures; in the Southern colonies, elite planters exercised local authority and also dominated the elected assemblies.
III. Competition over resources between European rivals and American Indians encouraged industry and trade and led to conflict in the Americas. / A) An Atlantic economy developed in which goods, as well as enslaved Africans and American Indians, were exchanged between Europe, Africa, and the Americas through extensive trade networks. European colonial economies focused on acquiring, producing, and exporting commodities that were valued in Europe and gaining new sources of labor.
B) Continuing trade with Europeans increased the flow of goods in and out of American Indian communities, stimulating cultural and economic changes and spreading epidemic diseases that caused radical demographic shifts. / D) The goals and interests of European leaders and colonists at times diverged, leading to a growing mistrust on both sides of the Atlantic. Colonists, especially in British North America, expressed dissatisfaction over issues including territorial settlements, frontier defense, self-rule, and trade.
C) Interactions between European rivals and American Indian populations fostered both accommodation and conflict. French, Dutch, British, and Spanish colonies allied with and armed American Indian groups, who frequently sought alliances with Europeans against other Indian groups. / E) British conflicts with American Indians over land, resources, and political boundaries led to
military confrontations, such as Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War) in New England. / F) American Indian resistance to Spanish colonizing efforts in North America, particularly after the Pueblo Revolt, led to Spanish accommodation of some aspects of American Indian culture in the
Southwest.
Checklist of Learning Objectives
After mastering this chapter, you should be able to:
1.Describe the basic economy, demographics, and social structure and life of the seventeenth-century colonies.
2.Compare and contrast the different forms of society and ways of life of the southern colonies and New England.
3.Explain how the practice of indentured servitude failed to solve the colonial labor problem and why colonists then turned to African slavery.
4.Describe the character of slavery in the early English colonies and explain how a distinctive African American identity and culture emerged from the mingling of numerous African ethnic groups.
5.Summarize the unique New England way of life centered on family, town, and church, and describe the problems that afflicted this comfortable social order in the late seventeenth century.
6.Describe family life and the roles of women in both the southern and New England colonies, and indicate how these changed over the course of the seventeenth century.
SHORT ANWSER
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

1. William Berkeley

1. Nathaniel Bacon

1. William Bradford

Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

1. indentured servitude

1. slave codes

1. headright system

1. jeremiads

1. middle passage

1. freedom dues

1. "witch hunting"

1. Yankee ingenuity

1. family stability

1. conversions

Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

1. Bacon's Rebellion

1. Leisler's Rebellion

1. Half-Way Covenant

1. African American

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Chapter 04 -American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
I.The Unhealthy Chesapeake
II.The Tobacco Economy
III.Frustrated Freemen and Bacon’s Rebellion
IV.Colonial Slavery
V.Africans in America
VI.Southern Society
VII.The New England Family
VIII.Life in the New England Towns
IX.The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials
X.The New England Way of Life
XI.The Early Settlers’ Days and Ways
XII. Makers of America: From African to African-American
Applying What You Have Learned

1. Why was the tobacco culture of early Maryland and Virginia so harsh and unstable? How did the environmental and demographic conditions of the Chesapeake region—especially rampant disease and the scarcity of women—affect the social and political life of the colonies?

2.What was the underlying cause of the expansion of African slavery in English North America?
3.Could the colonies’ labor problem have been solved without slavery?
4.How did African Americans develop a culture that combined African and American elements? What were some of the features of that culture?
5.Compare and contrast the typical family conditions and ways of life of southern whites, African American slaves, and New Englanders in the seventeenth century.
6.How did the harsh climate and soil, stern religion, and tightly knit New England town shape the Yankee character?
7.In what ways were married colonial New England women second-class citizens, subjected to discrimination and control, and in what ways was their status and well-being protected by law and society. Is it fair to critically judge colonial gender relations by later standards of equality and rights?
8.How did the Salem witch episode reflect the tensions and changes in seventeenth-century New England life and thought?
9.In what ways was seventeenth-century colonial society already recognizably American in relation to issues of family life, social class, ethnicity, and religion, and in what ways did it still reflect Old World features—whether European or African?
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