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THREAD: Some of the earliest American immigration policies, attitudes, and patterns of settlement.
1) Massachusetts Puritan colonists demanded written proof of character and even letters of recommendation. Failure to integrate resulted in banishment to England or other colonies.
2) Political franchise was limited to those who were members of the established church. Quakers were persecuted severely. Jesuits were banished, and executed upon the second trespass.
3) A 1700 Act required that “No lame, impotent, or infirm persons…should be received without first giving security that the town in which they settled would not be charged with their support." Without it, the shipmasters were required to transport them back.
4) About 1730, the Massachussets colonist eventually naturalized French Huegenot Protestants because “the first ‘lot’ had conducted themselves so ‘seemly’ that they would be pleased to receive others.’
5) The Puritans were primarily from the middle class and did not want simple laborers and servants to immigrate. “They must not be of the poorer sort,” declared Thomas Dudley.
As a result, 75% of adult Massachusetts immigrants “paid their own passage — no small sum in 1630.”
6) They “prohibited the entry of convicted felons (many of whom had been punished for crimes of poverty) and placed heavy impediments in the path of the migrant poor. A series of poor laws were enacted in Mass...that were even more strict than in England.”
7) The New Haven Colony in 1657, ordered that masters of vessels should be forced to carry away all passengers whom the towns refused to receive.
But it was likely the climate and the religion itself, more than the legal measures, that discouraged immigration from non-Puritans.
8) Interestingly, “the founders of Massachusetts...deliberately excluded an aristocracy from their ranking system."
This kept the migration mostly from the middle class and the gentry were also discouraged as their hereditary power would not be granted.
9) The Cavaliers who settled Virginia had different policies. Sir William Berkeley, governor, recruited the younger sons of the English Royalist elite. These great landed families became the ruling oligarchy for generations.
9) The rest of Virginia’s immigrants were of low social rank but not the lowest. More than 75 percent came as indentured servants from ‘the bottom of the middle rank.’
Berkeley and the other elite thus regulated migration to define the cultural system they wished to create.
11) Religious conformity to the Anglican faith was necessary to remain in the colony. “After 1642 Berkeley added other laws which required ‘all nonconformists … to depart the colony with all conveniency.”
The Puritans and Quakers were kicked out.
12) Attitudes towards foreigners were typical of English gentlemen of the time. They despised anyone who wasn’t English, speaking ill of “the French, Germans, Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Roman Catholics, Calvinists, Puritans, Quakers, and Dissenters of every stripe.”
13) The Quaker settlement in the Delaware Valley differed from the Puritan and Cavalier settlements in many ways. First, they had different attitudes towards outsiders. “They addressed everyone as 'Friend,' & welcomed others of many different backgrounds to live beside them”
14) Second, they were ethnically diverse. William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, wrote in 1685, “ …the people are a collection of Divers Nations in Europe: as, French, Dutch, Germans, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Scotch, French and English, and of the last equal to all the rest.”
15) However, “the Quaker founders deliberately created a coherent cultural framework which allowed this pluralism to flourish.”
They made a special effort to “attract European Protestants whose values were compatible with their own.“
16) The Scot-Irish immigrants were looked on as “barbarians” and the “scum of two nations.” The Quakers encouraged them to settle in the colonial backcountry, an area roughly the size of Western Europe.
17) The expanse of the New World helped mitigate the natural antipathy each of these four major folk cultures had for each other. There was a lot of ‘elbow room.’
Immigration was controlled mainly through internal cultural mechanisms. They were their own gatekeepers.
18) Nevertheless, these four founding cultures had a lot in common. Nearly all “spoke the English language, lived by British laws, and cherished their ancestral liberties. Most dwelled in nuclear households, and had broadly similar patterns of marital fertility."
19) The Revolution brought these groups together, but afterwards their cultural differences create different political and regional allegiances, the echoes of which we still deal with today.
Source: Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer; Colonial Immigration Laws by E.E. Proper
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THREAD: Some of the earliest American immigration policies, attitudes, and patterns of settlement.
1) Massachusetts Puritan colonists demanded written proof of character and even letters of recommendation. Failure to integrate resulted in banishment to England or other colonies.
3) A 1700 Act required that “No lame, impotent, or infirm persons…should be received without first giving security that the town in which they settled would not be charged with their support." Without it, the shipmasters were required to transport them back.
4) About 1730, the Massachussets colonist eventually naturalized French Huegenot Protestants because “the first ‘lot’ had conducted themselves so ‘seemly’ that they would be pleased to receive others.’
5) The Puritans were primarily from the middle class and did not want simple laborers and servants to immigrate. “They must not be of the poorer sort,” declared Thomas Dudley.
As a result, 75% of adult Massachusetts immigrants “paid their own passage — no small sum in 1630.”
As a result, 75% of adult Massachusetts immigrants “paid their own passage — no small sum in 1630.”
6) They “prohibited the entry of convicted felons (many of whom had been punished for crimes of poverty) and placed heavy impediments in the path of the migrant poor. A series of poor laws were enacted in Mass...that were even more strict than in England.”
7) The New Haven Colony in 1657, ordered that masters of vessels should be forced to carry away all passengers whom the towns refused to receive.
But it was likely the climate and the religion itself, more than the legal measures, that discouraged immigration from non-Puritans.
But it was likely the climate and the religion itself, more than the legal measures, that discouraged immigration from non-Puritans.
8) Interestingly, “the founders of Massachusetts...deliberately excluded an aristocracy from their ranking system."
This kept the migration mostly from the middle class and the gentry were also discouraged as their hereditary power would not be granted.
This kept the migration mostly from the middle class and the gentry were also discouraged as their hereditary power would not be granted.
9) The Cavaliers who settled Virginia had different policies. Sir William Berkeley, governor, recruited the younger sons of the English Royalist elite. These great landed families became the ruling oligarchy for generations.
9) The rest of Virginia’s immigrants were of low social rank but not the lowest. More than 75 percent came as indentured servants from ‘the bottom of the middle rank.’
Berkeley and the other elite thus regulated migration to define the cultural system they wished to create.
Berkeley and the other elite thus regulated migration to define the cultural system they wished to create.
11) Religious conformity to the Anglican faith was necessary to remain in the colony. “After 1642 Berkeley added other laws which required ‘all nonconformists … to depart the colony with all conveniency.”
The Puritans and Quakers were kicked out.
The Puritans and Quakers were kicked out.
12) Attitudes towards foreigners were typical of English gentlemen of the time. They despised anyone who wasn’t English, speaking ill of “the French, Germans, Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Roman Catholics, Calvinists, Puritans, Quakers, and Dissenters of every stripe.”
13) The Quaker settlement in the Delaware Valley differed from the Puritan and Cavalier settlements in many ways. First, they had different attitudes towards outsiders. “They addressed everyone as 'Friend,' & welcomed others of many different backgrounds to live beside them”
14) Second, they were ethnically diverse. William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, wrote in 1685, “ …the people are a collection of Divers Nations in Europe: as, French, Dutch, Germans, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Scotch, French and English, and of the last equal to all the rest.”
15) However, “the Quaker founders deliberately created a coherent cultural framework which allowed this pluralism to flourish.”
They made a special effort to “attract European Protestants whose values were compatible with their own.“
They made a special effort to “attract European Protestants whose values were compatible with their own.“
16) The Scot-Irish immigrants were looked on as “barbarians” and the “scum of two nations.” The Quakers encouraged them to settle in the colonial backcountry, an area roughly the size of Western Europe.
17) The expanse of the New World helped mitigate the natural antipathy each of these four major folk cultures had for each other. There was a lot of ‘elbow room.’
Immigration was controlled mainly through internal cultural mechanisms. They were their own gatekeepers.
Immigration was controlled mainly through internal cultural mechanisms. They were their own gatekeepers.
18) Nevertheless, these four founding cultures had a lot in common. Nearly all “spoke the English language, lived by British laws, and cherished their ancestral liberties. Most dwelled in nuclear households, and had broadly similar patterns of marital fertility."
19) The Revolution brought these groups together, but afterwards their cultural differences create different political and regional allegiances, the echoes of which we still deal with today.
Source: Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer; Colonial Immigration Laws by E.E. Proper
Source: Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer; Colonial Immigration Laws by E.E. Proper
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THREAD: Some of the earliest American immigration policies, attitudes, and patterns of settlement.
1) Massachusetts Puritan colonists demanded written proof of character and even letters of recommendation. Failure to integrate resulted in banishment to England or other colonies.
2) Political franchise was limited to those who were members of the established church. Quakers were persecuted severely. Jesuits were banished, and executed upon the second trespass.
3) A 1700 Act required that “No lame, impotent, or infirm persons…should be received without first giving security that the town in which they settled would not be charged with their support." Without it, the shipmasters were required to transport them back.
4) About 1730, the Massachussets colonist eventually naturalized French Huegenot Protestants because “the first ‘lot’ had conducted themselves so ‘seemly’ that they would be pleased to receive others.’
5) The Puritans were primarily from the middle class and did not want simple laborers and servants to immigrate. “They must not be of the poorer sort,” declared Thomas Dudley.
As a result, 75% of adult Massachusetts immigrants “paid their own passage — no small sum in 1630.”
6) They “prohibited the entry of convicted felons (many of whom had been punished for crimes of poverty) and placed heavy impediments in the path of the migrant poor. A series of poor laws were enacted in Mass...that were even more strict than in England.”
7) The New Haven Colony in 1657, ordered that masters of vessels should be forced to carry away all passengers whom the towns refused to receive.
But it was likely the climate and the religion itself, more than the legal measures, that discouraged immigration from non-Puritans.
8) Interestingly, “the founders of Massachusetts...deliberately excluded an aristocracy from their ranking system."
This kept the migration mostly from the middle class and the gentry were also discouraged as their hereditary power would not be granted.
9) The Cavaliers who settled Virginia had different policies. Sir William Berkeley, governor, recruited the younger sons of the English Royalist elite. These great landed families became the ruling oligarchy for generations.
9) The rest of Virginia’s immigrants were of low social rank but not the lowest. More than 75 percent came as indentured servants from ‘the bottom of the middle rank.’
Berkeley and the other elite thus regulated migration to define the cultural system they wished to create.
11) Religious conformity to the Anglican faith was necessary to remain in the colony. “After 1642 Berkeley added other laws which required ‘all nonconformists … to depart the colony with all conveniency.”
The Puritans and Quakers were kicked out.
12) Attitudes towards foreigners were typical of English gentlemen of the time. They despised anyone who wasn’t English, speaking ill of “the French, Germans, Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Roman Catholics, Calvinists, Puritans, Quakers, and Dissenters of every stripe.”
13) The Quaker settlement in the Delaware Valley differed from the Puritan and Cavalier settlements in many ways. First, they had different attitudes towards outsiders. “They addressed everyone as 'Friend,' & welcomed others of many different backgrounds to live beside them”
14) Second, they were ethnically diverse. William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, wrote in 1685, “ …the people are a collection of Divers Nations in Europe: as, French, Dutch, Germans, Swedes, Danes, Finns, Scotch, French and English, and of the last equal to all the rest.”
15) However, “the Quaker founders deliberately created a coherent cultural framework which allowed this pluralism to flourish.”
They made a special effort to “attract European Protestants whose values were compatible with their own.“
16) The Scot-Irish immigrants were looked on as “barbarians” and the “scum of two nations.” The Quakers encouraged them to settle in the colonial backcountry, an area roughly the size of Western Europe.
17) The expanse of the New World helped mitigate the natural antipathy each of these four major folk cultures had for each other. There was a lot of ‘elbow room.’
Immigration was controlled mainly through internal cultural mechanisms. They were their own gatekeepers.
18) Nevertheless, these four founding cultures had a lot in common. Nearly all “spoke the English language, lived by British laws, and cherished their ancestral liberties. Most dwelled in nuclear households, and had broadly similar patterns of marital fertility."
19) The Revolution brought these groups together, but afterwards their cultural differences create different political and regional allegiances, the echoes of which we still deal with today.
Source: Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer; Colonial Immigration Laws by E.E. Proper
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