HIST 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Middle Colonies, Puritans, Cash Crop
23 Feb 2016
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What were some of the social problems facing britain in the 16th and 17th centuries that helped pushed. Between 1580 and 1650, an expanding population strained england"s agrarian economy. Competition for food and land threatened to disrupt law and order and drove many people to migrate from rural areas to london or across the atlantic. Until tobacco began to be cultivated as a profitable cash crop around 1617, the virginia colony suffered from disease, hunger, misgovernment, and social dissension. Maryland, which had been founded as a refuge for. English catholics in the late 1630s, and where tobacco also became the economic mainstay, endured decades of political and religious conflict before a stable government was established there in the 1660s. Religious prosecution drove thousands of puritans to new england. John winthrop hoped the settlers would reform english protestantism and create a city on a hill. the puritans did not welcome dissent.
