NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: of the People: a History of the United States CHAPTER 3 the English

NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 3 “The English Come to Stay: 1600 – 1660”

COMMON THREADS
·  After the failure at Roanoke, how were the English finally able to establish successful colonies?
·  Why did the Jamestown Colony almost fail, and why did the New England ones succeed almost immediately? Can the Chesapeake or New England experience be considered more “typical” of what would become the United States?
·  How did the gender and family orders differ in the Chesapeake and in New England, and what impact did gender and family have in shaping these societies?
·  What were the similarities and differences in each region’s relations with Native Americans?
·  What role did religion play in shaping the Puritan colonies?
OUTLINE
The First Chesapeake Colonies
Planning Virginia
Starving Times
Troubled Relations with the Powhatans
Toward a New Political Economy
Toward the Destruction of the Powhatans
A New Colony in Maryland
The Political Economy of Slavery Emerges
The Problem of a Labor Supply
The Origins of Slavery in the Chesapeake
America and the World: Christian Slaves in Muslim Africa
Gender and the Social Order in the Chesapeake
A Bible Commonwealth in the New England Wilderness
The English Origins of the Puritan Movement
What Did the Puritans Believe?
The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth
The Puritan Colony at Massachusetts Bay
The New England Way
Changing the Land to Fit the Political Economy
American Landscape: New England Settlements
The Puritan Family
Dissension in the Puritan Ranks
Roger Williams and Toleration
Anne Hutchinson and the Equality of Believers
Puritan Indian Policy and the Pequot War
Conclusion
WHO?
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
Squanto
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson / WHAT?
Charter colony
Indentured servants
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Headright
Royal colony
Proprietary colony
Calvinism
Arminianism
Antinomianism
Pequot War
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What were the objectives of the founders of Virginia? Why did the colony survive in spite of poor planning?
2. What were the objectives of the founders of the Puritan colonies at Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay? Compare the early years of these colonies to those of the Virginia Colony.
3. What role did gender play in the social order of the Chesapeake and New England colonies? Compare and contrast family life in the two regions.
4. Compare and contrast relations of colonists with the Indians in the Chesapeake and New England.
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS