Unit 2Colonial America

toFrench and Indian War

Section 1:13 BRITISH COLONIES

New England Colonies

• Massachusetts• Rhode Island• Connecticut• New Hampshire

forward

John Winthrop

N.E.

Roger Williams

N.E.

Anne Hutchinson

Thomas Hooker

N.E.

Middle Colonies

• New York• New Jersey• Pennsylvania• Delaware

forward

William Penn

M

Southern Colonies

• Virginia• Maryland• Carolinas

(North & South)

• Georgia

forward

Nathaniel Bacon

So

Lord Baltimore, George Calvert

So

James Oglethorpe

So

13 Col

13 Col

African Slaves – Middle Passage

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Girl with Hornbook(wooden paddle)

• Easy to hold handle

• Hole in handle for leather thong

• Carried on belt or around neck

• Transparent Horn kept lessons from being spoiled

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Typical Hornbook

• Alphabet• Vowel and consonant

combinations• Lord’s Prayer• Form of a cross• Praise of the Trinity

(hand written on piece of

parchment & tacked to

wooden paddle)

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

New England Primer

• Textbook used by students in English settlements in North America

• First published and used in London

• First printed in Boston in 1690

• Over 5 million copies sold

• Used into the 19th C

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Scene from a dame school

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

A stern and austere Puritan worship service

1753 North America

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

• Proposed the

Albany Plan of Union at the

Albany Congress

• Grand Council to– make laws– raise taxes– to set up defense

Albany Congress – Albany Plan of Union

• Delegates voted to accept the plan

• No colonial assemblies approved it

– Colonies did not want to give up any of their powers to a central council

French and Indian War

French advantages

in the beginning

English had no united defense

Single New France government acted more quickly

More Indian allies

English advantages

English colonies were clustered along coast

French settlements were widely scattered

English population was 15 times greater

British navy ruled seas

William Pitt

Jeffrey Amherst

James Wolfe

After French and Indian War

Pontiac

Proclamation of 1763

• Colonials were forbidden to settle west of the line

• Colonials already settled west of the line were ordered to remove themselves at once

• 10,000 British troops were sent to the colonies to enforce the law

• Attempt to gain better control of colonists

Education in British Colonies

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Girl with Hornbook(wooden paddle)

• East to hold handle• Hole in handle for leather

thong• Carried on belt or around

neck

• Transparent Horn kept lessons from being spoiled

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Typical Hornbook

• Alphabet• Vowel and consonant

combinations• Lord’s Prayer• Form of a cross• Praise of the Trinity

(hand written on piece of

parchment & tacked to

wooden paddle)

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

New England Primer

• Textbook used by students in English settlements in North America

• First published and used in London

• First printed in Boston in 1690

• Over 5 million copies sold

• Used into the 19th C

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

Scene from a dame school

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

A stern and austere Puritan worship service

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies

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