HIST 2055 Chapter : Sep 5 Outline
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Emergence of a more normal society: collapse of the boom. Virginia diversifies crops and death drops but the community is still not healthy: a new aristocracy. Bring church of england with them and set up an aristocracy. Two different types of aristocrats: those who have been there forever and worked their way to riches and those that moved from england. We tend to see colonies go from being very similar to england to more american, but instead it was the opposite. Communities go from less like england to more like england (with law changes, social changes, etc. : maryland. Calvins given a grant by the king to maryland. Calvins set up maryland as a refuge for calvins leaving england. Pilgrims were puritans but they were even more of separatists. Pilgrims succeed in setting up a stable colony. Massachusetts bay factors that shaped: composition of migration. Middle class, religious people who come to settle colonies.
