Founding of Georgia Problems between Northern Spanish territory in Florida and South Carolina James Oglethorpe Military hero and member of parliament Founded Georgia as buffer between Spanish and English colonies ID: 696120
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Society and Culture of ColoniesSlide2
Founding of Georgia
Problems between Northern Spanish territory in Florida and South Carolina
James Oglethorpe:
Military hero and member of parliament
Founded Georgia as buffer between Spanish and English colonies.
Brought prisoners from England to serve as Farmer-Soldiers to defend the colony.Slide3
Georgia Transformed
Oglethorpe assumed complete control
No Africans, free or slave, for fear they would defect to the Spanish
Restricted trade with Natives to avoid insurrection
No Catholics, too much in common with Spanish
His authority led to class conflict similar to South Carolina, King resumed control of colony and repealed restrictions.
Even still, Georgia developed slower than other colonies.Slide4
Navigation Acts
Under Cromwell England used navy to prevent Dutch ships from trading
Charles II Navigation Acts took this a step further
1. Colonial trade only with British ships
2. All colonial goods shipped elsewhere in Europe had to go through England, so it could be taxed
3. Appointed customs officials to enforce the first two acts since colonists constantly evaded themSlide5
Glorious Revolution/ Enlightenment
William and Mary overthrew James II to take control of England.
The established the English Bill of Rights which extended to the colonists under British rule.
Enlightenment:
New ideas concerning medicine, education, and philosophy eventually spread to colonies, changing New England in particular
Massachusetts passed law requiring every town to provide public school.
Harvard was first American college.Slide6
Cultural development in Colonies
Life in New England
Cooler climate free of many diseases caused life expectancy to be much longer (into the 70s)
More family oriented from beginning, caused a closer gender ratio.
Marriage:
Married young, started families earlier, more children survived to maturity.
Since men lived longer, often women remained in subordinate roles
Fathers, brothers, and other male relatives had to give consent to marriage, dowries were often required.Slide7
Cultural Development in Colonies
Life in Chesapeake and Southward
Male dominated from the start
Mortality rates and disease much higher than anywhere else in the world (40 yr. life expectancy)
Higher death rate meant only 1/3 of marriages lasted longer than 10 years.
Women, comparatively lower, were expected to marry as soon as possible, average was 20 yrs. But much younger in many cases.Slide8
Life in South Cont.
Fewer men = less fatherly control, and indentured servants weren’t allowed to marry before release
Much higher premarital sex and pregnancy rates.
Nearly 1/3 of marriages already pregnant.
Women were pregnant every 2 yrs. Bearing an average of 8 children.
Women typically had more opportunity to select husbands
Generally gained more power within family since they became widowed much earlier.Slide9
Economic Development
New England / Mid-Atlantic Colonies:
Colder climate and rocky soil prevented large scale farming like in southern colonies.
Craftsmen such as blacksmiths, cobblers, silversmiths, printers, carpenters,
riflemakers
, lumberjacks, etc…
Technology such as water power was developed to run mills and large scale shipbuilding operations.
Eventually wealthy merchant classes were more common in Northern cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, and New York as they expanded. Slide10
New England / Mid-Atlantic Cont.
Most northern colonists were far from self sufficient and depended heavily on bartering and commerce for survival
The Town was the central social unit where most citizens lived.
Farmlands were divided around the outskirts
As families expanded and sons inherited land they eventually spread further from security of the town.Slide11
Economic Development
Southern Colonies
Tobacco – initial cash crop caused large demand and land development.
Warmer, longer growing season, and impact on soil caused large planter economy to develop.
South Carolina eventually developed damns within the tidal waters to build large rice plantations.
Later found that indigo production rotated crops nicely with rice.
Later development of cotton and sugar cane became popular.
Most trade of such crops went through England or northern cities. – Wealthy planter Aristocrat SocietySlide12
Southern Colonies Cont.
Large Planters dominated southern society
Plantations became the centers of trade and supplies.
Were relatively self sufficient
Most plantations were actually rather small and usually included roughly 30 servants who worked closely with owners.
A majority; however, were small farmers who worked and lived closely with servants, no splendor.
They still depended upon the larger plantations for credit or marketing for their crops.Slide13
Slavery
Cash crops were labor intensive, began with the expansion of tobacco production.
Initially most slaves went to Caribbean and Brazil for the sugar plantations, only 5 percent came to English colonies.
As trade increased and price of slaves declined they became more predominant, most slave codes and extreme expansion wouldn’t occur until 18
th
century
Most plantation owners were land rich but poor of cash, inter racial relations were quite common.Slide14
Slavery Cont.
To maintain control slave codes prohibited the education of slaves and empowered owners to break up families through trade.
In response, slaves developed elaborate kinship with extended family and surrogate “relatives”
Gullah
Form of language that combined African tongues and English
Slaves could continue to communicate free from ownersSlide15
Witchcraft In New England
Began with crisis in Salem, Mass.
Eventually 19 people executed as result, accusers later recanted their claims.
The accused were typically
Middle aged, widowed women with few or no children and large land holdings
Lower social status women involved with domestic conflicts
Women of bad repute or abrasive to neighbors
Still, the belief in the power of Satan was very real in Puritan society and fear of witchcraft went beyond mere superstition in New England society.