File:A history of the United States (1921) (14596592620).jpg

Identifier: historyofuniteds01lata (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Latané, John Holladay, 1869-1932
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston : New York : Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
poor return for the kindness they hadreceived in Maryland. An assembly dominated by themand from which the Catholics were excluded repealed thetoleration act of 1649. In 1655 Stone made an effort toregain control of affairs, but he and his Cathohc supporterswere defeated by the Puritans under William Fuller in apitched battle on the Severn. Lord Baltimore, however, hadacknowledged Cromwells rule and two years later an agree-ment was reached and his authority again recognized. During the period 1640-1660 the population of Virginia and Maryland increased at a far greater rate than at any other period in their history. In Virginia the Growth of increase was from 7600 to 33,000, and in population ,^, in the Maryland from 1500 to 8000. The immigra- coionies ^- ^^ Virginia at this time was to a large ex- 1640-1660 *= 1 • 1 r tent cavalier m character; that is, made up 01 people of royaUst sympathies. By 1660 Virginia had out-stripped Massachusetts in population, — 33,000 to 25,000, —
Text Appearing After Image:
Virginia and Maryland 1650 English Colonization, 1584-1660 45 and Virginia continued to hold the first place in populationuntil after the Revolution. The population of the coloniesat this time was mainly English, with a few Scotch, Irish,and Huguenot settlers. In the Dutch province of NewNetherland there were at this time (1660) about 6000 souls,about half of them English, the rest mainly Dutch andSwedes. A few negro slaves were to be found in all thecolonies. TOPICAL REFERENCES 1. English Seamen of the Elizabethan Age : Fiske, Old Virginiaand Her Neighbors, Vol. I, pp. 1-28; Channing, History of theUnited States, Vol. I, Chap. V; L. G. Tyler, England in America,Chap. I; J. A. Froude, English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century. 2. Raleighs Attempt to Colonize America: Tyler, Chap. IIFiske, Vol. I, pp. 28-40; Channing, Vol. I, pp. 124-130. 3. The Settlement of Virginia: Fiske, Vol. I, Chaps. II-VIITyler, Chaps. III-Vl; Channing, Vol. I, Chaps. VI-VIII. 4. The Founding of Maryland: Fiske,

Note About Images