We discussed the following topics: Restoration of the English monarchy under Charles II following the English Civil War and its impact upon England and the colonies; the transition of New Netherland from Dutch to English rule in 1664; the establishment of Carolina along the same lines as that of the Caribbean island of Barbados in the 1660s; the establishment of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania in the 1680s; the Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights in 1689 and their impact upon English and colonial politics; the Act of Union in 1707 uniting England and Scotland; and the establishment of Georgia as a penal colony under James Ogelthorpe and that colony's eventual transition to a slave-based economy along the lines of Carolina. We also discussed the tension between the poor white farmers of northern Carolina and the large planters of Carolina, which culminated in the decision of the colony into North and South in the late 1720s.