Chapter 2: New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies

Chapter 2: New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies focuses on:


 * The diversity of the four main groups of British colonies:
 * New England Colonies
 * Middle Colonies
 * Chesapeake Bay Colonies
 * Southern Colonies

Section Headings

 * 1) Introduction: Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement (33)
 * 2) Breaking Away (34)
 * 3) The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth (35)
 * 4) Entrepreneurs in Virginia (35)
 * 5) Spinning Out of Control (37)
 * 6) "Stinking Weed" (38)
 * 7) Time of Reckoning (39)
 * 8) Corruption and Reform (40)
 * 9) Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics (41)
 * 10) Reforming England in America (42)
 * 11) "The Great Migration" (43)
 * 12) "A City on a Hill" (44)
 * 13) Limits of Religious Dissent (47)
 * 14) Mobility and Division (50)
 * 15) Diversity in the Middle Colonies (51)
 * 16) Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson (51)
 * 17) Confusion in New Jersey (52)
 * 18) Quakers in America (53)
 * 19) Quaker Beliefs and Practice (53)
 * 20) Penn's "Holy Experiment" (54)
 * 21) Settling Pennsylvania (54)
 * 22) Planting the Carolinas (55)
 * 23) Proprietors of the Carolinas (56)
 * 24) The Barbadian Connection (56)
 * 25) The Founding of Georgia (57)
 * 26) Conclusion: Living with Diversity (60)