English Colonization

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English Colonization

• Southern Colonies
• New England Colonies
• Middle Colonies

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Searching for the Northwest passage, the English
began to settle in North America.

• Roanoke Island Sir Walter Raleigh and the lost
  colony.
• Jamestown Virginia Company (Joint-Stock).
• Native American Powhatan and Captain John Smith
  will agree to trade between the two groups, which
  will also help ensure survival of the colony.
• John Rolfe develops a special variety of
  tobacco, which will save the colony.

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Colony of Virginia

• In 1619, Virginia formed the House of Burgesses,
  which was the first form of representative
  government in the colonies (assembly).

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Royal Colony

• After a Native American uprising in 1622, which
  left homes burned and 150 settlers dead, King
  James revokes the Virginia charter. He appoints a
  governor to run the colony.

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Maryland A Proprietary Colony

• In 1632, King Charles I granted Lord Baltimore a
  land grant north of Virginia to ensure that
  Catholics had a place to live without being
  persecuted.
• Why was Maryland called a proprietary colony?

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New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

• These colonies will grow after New York becomes
  an English colony.
• William Penn (Quaker) Pennsylvania (picture of
  Penn shown on left)

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North and South Carolina

• North Carolina Farmers from Virginia scattered
  here and the colony grew slowly.
• South Carolina 1st settlers arrived in 1670.
  Charles town (named after king). Trade in
  deerskins and native Americans in the early years.

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Georgia

• James Oglethorpe had an idea that there should be
  a place for the poor and King George II decided
  to grant a charter for a colony south of South
  Carolina, which would also be a buffer from
  Spanish Florida. Founded in 1733, the trustees
  banned rum, slavery, and brandy. It will become a
  royal colony in 1751.

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Pilgrims (Separatist)

• Sail from England in 1620 and establish the first
  New England colony. (Plymouth)
• Religious differences in Europe will bring in
  many new settlers.

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Massachusetts A City on a Hill

• John Winthrop, a wealthy Puritan, and other
  stockholders invested in the Massachusetts Bay
  Company and received a royal charter for a New
  England colony. This started the Great Migration,
  which would bring an estimated 20,000 settlers to
  New England by 1643. Banishment was possible if
  rules not followed

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Massachusetts Rejects Others

• After being banished from Massachusetts,
  dissenters Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
  would form the royal colony of Rhode Island.
• Other dissenters would form the colonies of New
  Hampshire and Maine.
• Thomas Hooker would found Connecticut because of
  a land shortage.

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Middle Colonies

• New York originally New Netherlands (Dutch/Henry
  Hudson/Manhattan Island/fur trade).
• King Charles I will grant land to his brother,
  James, Duke of York and James will immediately
  send 4 warships to seize this land from the Dutch
  and in 1664, it is in English hands and renamed
  New York.

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13 Colonies

• Each colony was founded by different people for
  different reasons and each would take on certain
  characteristics based on the environment, such as
  the topography and climate. However, the most
  diverse characteristic would come from the many
  people that would populate each.