The Colonization Of North Carolina

Madi Baumann Mr. Govaars APUSH 4 9/12/17 Chapter 3 Summary 2.) The main theme of Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies- is Culture. Throughout the chapter, religion’s effect on the development of the Northern American colonies is mentioned repeatedly. For example, German friar Martin Luther, who wrote and nailed the 95 Thesis to Wittenberg’s Cathedral, helped spur the “Protestant Reformation” into action. Other key members in the Reformation were John Calvin, who elaborated Luther’s writings and created ‘Calvinism’, and Henry VIII, who broke ties with the Catholic Church and made himself the leader of the Church of England.

Each colony was settled for different reasons such as religious freedom, riches or glory. Massachutes and South Carolina were both settled for very different reasons as well. Though they were very different there was also some similarities.

In the 1600’s those coming from the West Indies searching for land established a new colony south of Chesapeake. This colony was owned by the Lords Proprietors. To quickly populate the Carolina’s the Lords Proprietors offered large incentives attracting many colonists. These were things such as religious toleration, political representation, and large grants of land. With workers needed Carolina offered freedom dues; attracting many poor people that would work as indentured servants. As Carolina gained the common settlers and indentured servants the Lord Proprietors made sure to include great planters with large land grants and absolute power over their slaves. As the Lord Proprietors were in England they could not fully control Carolina. This was seen as men known as

Through the fertile land, they could prosper through plantations. In result, the region could then cultivate tobacco, rice, and indigo to become the cash crops of the colonies. These products would allow the region to become an empire of exportation. As plantations in the south increase, the need for cheap labor also

1. Slavery was found in all of these colonies because they worked on the farms and

“Between 1680 and 1750, the southern white tidewater settlements changed from a frontier society with high immigration, a surplus of males, and an unstable social organization to a settled society mostly of native-born families” (Nash, p. 99). African slaves grew tobacco and rice, as well as a rapid population growth in the southern colonies because of migration. They replaced indentured servants by African slaves and the unfree labor force was black. They shifted fields from grain, hemp, and flax to cattle and swine. They soon became more productive with iron, leather, and textiles in both economic and social reasons. They all had several differences. The rice coast transformed their land into swampy coastal lowlands around Charleston. Rice

Did you know Johns town was not the first British American colony? Have you ever heard about a missing British colony? Will the mystery ever be solved? Johns-town is commonly believed to be the first British colony. Roanoke, the first British colony, went missing over 300 years ago, 17 years before johnstown. Roanoke was the first British American colony, everyone disappeared at Roanoke and there are many theories about what happened to this day.

Since water in the Chesapeake colonies was unhealthy, everyone was forced to rely on alcohol. From the 1690's onward, females initially made alcoholic beverages at home, as their husbands were focused on tobacco production. However, important changes would soon come to affect the availability and quality of alcohol substantially. During these changes, alcohol consumption was increased by male colonists’ advancements and was later decreased by laborers’ drunkenness.

The seventeenth century brought plenty of changes to North America. One of the most significant ones was the formation of the thirteen colonies along the North American east coast. These colonies are generally divided into New England, Middle and South or the Chesapeake regions. Most of these colonies were settled by the British, yet they developed differently as the years went by. Some developed into more egalitarian colonies and some not. The greatest differences could be seen in the New England and Chesapeake regions. Even though the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled originally by The British, they had their own differences which were influenced by many of factors, including the reasons they were founded, their social

The people of the New England and Chesapeake colonies, although came from the same people, turned into very different cultures. For example, in New England, Puritanism was favored while in the Chesapeake region Christianity was practiced. Often times, religion would dictate a certain peoples way of life. Although both religions were strict, both had different ideas. Also, there were disagreements that occurred between the people within a colony. Many other ways of life were established in each of these areas independent of each other.

Although immigration continued through the Revolutionary War, the largest percentage of migrants arrived in North Carolina between 1750 and 1760. The heaviest concentration was in the area south of Salisbury and east of Concord in what is now eastern Rowan and Cabarrus counties. These German-speaking people, which records indicate arrived as early as 1728, had little knowledge of English. Described as “fervently religious, they kept to themselves for generations and had little contact with their Scot-Irish and English neighbors who lived in other parts of the counties.

The worn out fields produce fewer pounds per acre than did the new fields west of the mountains. South Carolina also had problems with slave conspiracies. Denmark Vesey a free black who lived in Charleston lead a rebellion that cause 36 blacks to be killed and many others exiled. (Internet Source 1) South Carolina said that if a strong federal government is allowed to take money from the South using a protective tariff to benefit the wealth of the north, then eventually they are going to try to abolish slavery which South Carolina lived on.

Indentured servants where men and women who signed a contract to work for a certain number of years, usually between four and seven, in exchange for transportation to the colonies. The Chesapeake Bay colonies, Virginia and Maryland, where especially condition to use indentured servants. During this essay I will explain why the Chesapeake Bay colonies were in such need of the servants and why eventually they turned to slavery to fill the void left by the indentured servants.

The European conquest for establishing North American colonies began with various motivations, each dependent on different, and/or merging necessities: economics, the desire to flee negative societal aspects, and the search for religious freedoms. Originally discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 in search for a trade route to Cathay (China), North America remained uninhabited, excluding the Native American establishments. Following this discovery, Spain –along with other European nations such as France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands– soon began the expedition to the new land with vast expectations. Driven by economic, societal, and religious purposes, the New World developed into a diversely structured colonial establishment

The citizens of the Southern Colonies such as Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina were mainly successful with lots of crops; mostly tobacco and rice, which in turn gained a lot of money for them. These large plantations usually were farmed by forced labor of