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HIST 2300 February 8th, 2017 (English North America (Colonies as "…

- - - - Entire religious groups migrate together
        
        Build churches, schools(institutions of culture)
      - Small family farms in compact area
        
        Little to no need for enslaved labor
      - Large "middle class"
        
        Towns develop
      - High literacy, church attendance, and sex ration balance
  - - - Religious dissidents (pilgrims, quakers, baptists)
        
        Escape imprisonment with distance
        
        Kingdoms lose destabilizing influence
      - Migration was not for "religious freedom"
        
        Economic advantage and escape from the law AND to be removed themselves from worldly or other religious influences!
    - - None every offered "religious freedom" to others
      - They wanted isolation, closed communities
    - - "troublesome" young men sent out of the country
    - - Family members sent to run economic enterprises
      - Excess poor offered a chance to "make fortunes"
        
        Relieves pressure on local charities and economies
        
        Passage paid through labor contracts (indentured)
        
        Few or no prisoners sent to North America(!)
      - Indentured servitude can be abused, The contract can easily be extended, etc....
      - General development trends
        
        Going North to South:
        
        Literacy, church-going, middle-class, towns, institutions --> fewer
        
        This is a function of who settles in each region, what resources were available, and how they developed.
        
        It is NOT:
        
        A function of who is "better", "more moral"
      - General principles of colonies
        
        For all kingdoms colonies are economic assets
        
        Rules exist to benefit the home country
        
        Migration is encouraged (or not) to benefit the home country
        
        All political power resides in the home country- - the "crown" rules the colonies
        
        Some colonies with settler populations have legislatures for loca issues