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How did the planting of colonies by European nations
compare?
What characterized the English and Algonquian colonial
encounter in the Chesapeake?
3. What role did religious dissent play in the planting of the
New England colonies?
4. What characterized the founding of the proprietary
colonies?
5. What characterized Indian warfare and internal conflict at
the end of the 17th century?
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17th Century
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Virginia was the first
English colony in North
America
Joined by settlements of
Scandinavians on the
Delaware River, and
Dutch on the Hudson
River, as well as English
religious dissenters in
New England.
King James I
royal charters to jointstock companies
 1607
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 Virginia Company
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survival depended
 supplies
 new colonists
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1632
Calvert family
 Lords
Baltimore
proprietary
colony
 Catholic
 tobacco
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Women fared better in the Chesapeake than
men
 Little local community life developed
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 close ties with England were maintained.
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Calvinist Puritans
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Enterprise
 purify and reform the English church.
 merchants;
 entrepreneurs;
 commercial farmers.
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Persecution and disputes provided context
for migration of Puritans to New England.
Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact
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Governor John Winthrop
c. 1640, portrait by an unknown artist.
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After the restoration of the Stuart
monarchy in 1660, King Charles II
of England created the new
proprietary colonies of Carolina,
New York, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey. New Hampshire was
set off as a royal colony in 1680,
and in 1704 the lower counties of
Pennsylvania became the colony
of Delaware.
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In the last quarter of the 17th century,
intertribal and intercolonial rivalry stimulated
violence that extended from Santa Fe to
Hudson Bay.
The spread of settlement in
the English colonies in the
late seventeenth century
created the conditions for a
number of violent conflicts,
including King Philip’s War,
Bacon’s Rebellion, the Wars
in the South, and King
William’s War.
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War of the League of Augsburg
 1688-1697
 King William's War
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