An Expanding Empire
* 1600s 1 cluster was in New England, the other Chesapeake bay. * 1607- Virginias population reached 2500 and tobacco sales soared.* Tidewater: is a region of low coastal land with rivers affected by ocean tides, Virginia prospered in the Chesapeake Tidewater.* Maryland- established in 1634 by Lord Baltimore as a refuge for Catholics fleeing persecution in England.* To attract settlers, lord Baltimore promised religious toleration to Protestants.* During the great migration, thousands of Puritans moved to Maryland, where they soon outnumbered the Catholics.* The tobacco plantations of the Chesapeake Tidewater were strung out along the regions many waterways. To the dock of each plantation came ships that brought manufactured goods from England and in turn carried the tobacco to market.* Plantations were scattered, ministers found it hared to enforce church rules of behavior.* In the beginning, fields had to be cleared of trees and the stump* Within 3 or 4 years the nutrients of the soil are used up.* 1/2 the children in Chesapeake died.* 1600s- 1000s of immigrants came in response to labor, demand for the tobacco farms.* Some of people that came were convents and artisans
* In 1729 the crown took over Carolina from its proprietors. * He was the cranky and strong-willed Peter Stuyvesant. * Stuyvesant, wanting to expand New Netherland, attacked the neighboring colony of Sweden 1655. * The puritans ruled England until the 1660's/* In that year Charles the Second reclaimed his fathers thrown. * The colony was divided into the South and North Carolina. The patroon had special privileges in hunting, fishing , and the fur trade. * This organization received a charter to settle Georgia. * James Oglethorpe was founder of the colony. The same year he was given more land by the duke, the three countries that would make Delaware. * He formed a charitable organization in Georgia. * Used a wooden peg to replace a leg lost in battle, thereby earning the nickname "Pegleg Peter. * When the dukes ships appeared off New Amsterdam in 1664. * Dutch company did so was through patroons.
Common topics in this essay:
Chesapeake Tidewater,
James Oglethorpe,
Penn Penn,
Seizure Netherland,
Lord Baltimore,
England Chesapeake,
Hudson River,
Protestants Huguenots,
Duke York,
Pegleg Peter,
georgia *,
chesapeake tidewater,
* charles,
* duke,
dutch west india,
spanish florida,
dutch west,
lord baltimore,
netherland *,
florida *,
* plantations,
west india company,
spanish florida *,
* dutch company,
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