01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iroquois, Mercantilism, Centrality
13 May 2018
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Chapter 03 - Crisis and Expansion: North American
Colonies, 1650-1750
1. Introduction
1. Social turmoil of late-seventeenth century North America
2. Illustration: King Philip's War
1. Indian attacks on southern New England colonial
settlements
2. Defeat of Indian rebellion
3. Devastation of southern New England Indians
2. Expansion of England's empire
1. Mercantilism
1. Principles
2. Adoption by England
3. Place of North America in
2. New York
1. Origins
2. Growth and significance
1. Military
2. Commercial
3. Population
3. Status of inhabitants
1. Religious groups
2. Ethnic groups
3. Women
4. Blacks
5. Landed elite
6. Iroquois Confederacy
7. Charter of Liberties and Privileges
3. Carolina
1. Origins
2. Relations with Indians
3. Lures for settlers
4. Introduction of plantation slavery
4. Pennsylvania
1. Origins
2. William Penn
3. Quaker principles
4. Relations with Indians
5. Lures for settlers
6. Growth
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3. Origins of American slavery
1. Reasons for rise of black slavery in British colonies
1. Growing demand for plantation labor
2. Practical advantages over other alternatives
3. English cultural perceptions
1. Of "alien peoples" in general
2. Of Africans in particular
2. Slavery in world history
3. Slavery in the West Indies
1. Rapid rise during seventeenth century
2. Centrality of sugar production
4. Rise of Chesapeake slavery
1. Early decades
1. Predominance of servants from England
2. Ambiguities of lines between black and white, slavery
and freedom
1. In custom
2. In law
2. Mid-seventeenth century
1. Gradual divergence in status of blacks and whites
2. Growing practice of slavery
3. Bacon's Rebellion
1. Background
1. Governor William Berkeley's favoritism toward
wealthy planters
2. Diminishing prospects, rising hardships of small
farmers
3. Berkeley's restraints on white settlement
2. Narrative
1. Frontier attacks on Indians
2. Mobilization of diverse rebels by Nathaniel
Bacon
3. Grievances and objectives
4. Burning of Jamestown
5. Attacks on governor's supporters
6. Suppression of rebellion
3. Long-term consequences
1. Expanded freedoms and opportunities for white
Virginians
2. Accelerated shift from white indentured
servitude to black slavery
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