Randi Brown

APUSH Notes OOOP Chapter 1

-Opportunity in America due to immense amounts of land etc.

-Labor was harder to find than land was.
-Nearly free to take land.
-Enough success occurred to encourage greater immigration to the New World.
-Indentured servants actually received land at the end of their service.
-Dutch tried to establish a feudal system which failed.
-Only Rensselaer of the first Englishmen to have charters maintained it; rest went to the Dutch West
Indies Company
-Lord Baltimore also attempted feudalism which had more success as a catholic aristocracy but later
failed due to the appeal of open land for tenants.
-In 1669 the Carolinas tried the same thing in the Fundamental constitution.
-In New England, Bradford from the start made proprietary rights for the individual.
-Mass. Bay’s Bodies of Liberties, 1641, made explicit these rights and their deviation from feudal and
manorial systems.
-Wealth was a primary determinant of social standing.
-Almost all Americans were Locke-an or Whig liberals.
-Very few were Burke-an conservatives.
-It was found that Puritanism and capitalism mixed well.
-Quakers were bigger savers.
-Puritan life was somber and grim.
-They lived very simple, righteous lives.
-They held lotteries as ways of making money for the government.
-Puritans dressed as the Renaissance Englishmen did.
-Long hair was a class differentiation. Longer hair meant higher class.
-Puritans were really not opposed to art and music in general.
-Celibacy was not nearly as emphasized as would be believed.
-Permitted divorces more easily than anywhere else.
-Premarital sex occurred often.
-New England experienced the Great Migration of 1630-1640.
-Individualism resulted from Puritanism.
-Education was emphasized.
-Churches founded many colleges.
-In general, the colonies practiced limited religious tolerance.
-Both Virginia and Massachusetts had blossoming legislatures.
-Constitutions in those colonies began representative governments.
-Local governments were effective.
-Religious and social aims determined planning and governing in the colonies.
-New England set up in centralized towns while Virginia set up in widespread counties.
-All citizens of towns could speak in town meetings and after some time, vote.
-Slavery grew in importance.
-Racism was born.
-Slavery was practiced outright in other English colonies of the world.
-Slavery was done but not explicitly called slavery.
-In 1662 Virginia established a system to deal with hereditary issues and inter-racial relations between
white males and black females.
-Inter-marriage was prohibited.
-As early as 1669 in Virginia, slaves were considered property.
-Long before slavery emerged as the predominant source of labor, Blacks were discriminated against
within the codes of the law.
-The 1641 Bodies of Liberty permitted slavery in New England.
-The United (New England) Colonies agreed to allow slavery as punishment.