HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Making Money, Puritans, Protestantism
Document Summary
Connecticut is founded in 1662, an off-shoot of massachusetts. Perhaps most impactful is the founding of pennsylvania. William penn was granted a charter from the king. he was a quakerist. Penn is a business man who invisions a society of quakers, invisions making money, invisions peaceful relationships with the indigenous peoples however this did not pan out. It becomes the first truly lucrative colony in the new. It is the first place the english successfully plant sugar cane. Jamaica complements the production of sugar with the plantation of coffee. Jamaica and barbados were the core of the colonies for the british at this time for the. Extensive trade within the colonies, i. e. new england provides ships and timber for the carribean, sugar heads north. Population numbers are increasing in the colonies. Diversified economy in new england, 1 part urban - skilled craftsmen, merchant class, universities, schools, press and media.
