Charles II

(noun)

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685.

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Examples of Charles II in the following topics:

  • The Founding of Carolina

    • The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
    • A group of eight men were rewarded for their faithful support of Charles II following the 1660 restoration of the monarchy of Britain with the charter to a colony in the new world .

  • Freedom in New Netherland

    • In March 1664, Charles II of England resolved to seize New Netherland .

  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    • King Charles II of England began taking steps in the early 1680s to reorganize the New England colonies.
    • When Charles II died in 1685, his successor, the Roman Catholic James II, continued the unification process, which culminated in the creation of the Dominion of New England.
    • After King James II published the Declaration of Indulgence in 1687, establishing some freedom of religion, Increase Mather sent a letter of appreciation to the king and suggested to other Massachusetts pastors that they also do so as a means to gain favor and influence.

  • Pennsylvania and Delaware

    • Penn received the charter for Pennsylvania from Charles II and brought over Quaker dissidents from England, Wales, the Netherlands, and France.
    • William Penn, holding paper, standing and facing King Charles II, in the King's breakfast chamber at Whitehall.

  • Conclusion: Patterns of British Settlement in the Colonies

    • In addition to wresting control of New York and New Jersey from the Dutch, Charles II established the Carolinas and Pennsylvania as proprietary colonies.
    • Every colony had slaves, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston.

  • New Jersey

    • King James II granted the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to two friends and named it New Jersey after the island of Jersey.
    • King Charles II gave the region between New England and Maryland to his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II), which was renamed New York.
    • In 1738, King George II appointed a separate governor for New Jersey.

  • An Emerging Colonial System

    • The Dominion of New England was created in 1685 by a decree from King James II that consolidated Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Province of New York, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single larger colony.
    • New Haven was absorbed by Connecticut Colony with the issuance of the Connecticut Charter in 1662, partly as royal punishment by King Charles II for harboring the regicide judges who sentenced King Charles I to death.

  • The Carolinas

    • In 1663, Charles II of England rewarded eight men for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England by granting them the land called Carolina; these men were called Lords Proprietors and controlled the Carolinas from 1663 to 1729.
    • The Charles-Town settlement developed more rapidly than the Albemarle and Cape Fear settlements due to the advantages of a natural harbor, and it quickly developed trade with the West Indies.
    • As the settlement around Charles Town grew, it began to produce livestock for export to the West Indies.
    • By the end of the 1600s, a very wealthy class of rice planters who relied on slaves had attained dominance in the southern part of the Carolinas, especially around Charles Town.

  • The Eugenics Movement

    • The Theory of Evolution made famous by Charles Darwin was used by English sociologist and anthropologist Francis Galton, a half-cousin of Darwin, to promote the idea of a human survival of the fittest that could be enacted through selective breeding.
    • The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B.
    • Before the realization of death camps in World War II, the idea that Eugenics would lead to genocide was not taken seriously by the average American.
    • American biologist Charles B.
    • A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton founded field of Eugenics and promoted the improvement of the human gene pool through selective breeding.

  • Domestic Conservatism

    • Charles Lindbergh had been actively involved in questioning the motives of the Roosevelt administration well before the formation of the AFC.
    • Many conservatives, especially in the Midwest, in 1939–41 favored isolationism and opposed American entry into World War II—and so did many liberals.
    • Charles Lindbergh speaking at an America First Committee rally.