EARLY COLONIES

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EARLY COLONIES
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WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?
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• HOW SUCKY IS MY LIFE?
• Poor
• Indentured Servants (enslaved for 7-15 years)
• Criminals (50,000 over the century)
• 1 in 6 colonists survived

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Charter Document that allows you to exist.
Proprietary Granted by a king or queen to an
individual or group who had full governing
rights.
Royal Governor appointed by the King and
allowed to rule how the governor saw fit.
Corporate Political power rested in the
members of the company, who met in what was
known as the General Court
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Joint-Stock Company

• Company funded and run by a group of investors
  who share the companys profits and losses.

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Jamestown the Basics - Virginia

• 1607
• Problems Gold 1 priority, lack of skills,
  disease caused by location, relationship with
  Natives.

Leads to
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Starving Time Only 38 of original 144 survive.
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Saved by John Smith and Tobacco
Rolfe Introduces tobacco
Work or starve. John Smith
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
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• DID POCAHONTAS REALLY SAVE JOHN SMITH? MYTH OR
  REALITY

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Massachusetts Colony

• Two Settlements

Massachusetts Bay Colony (Puritans)
Plymouth Colony (Separatists)
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT

• 41 Male passengers on the Mayflower formed into a
  civil body politic, signed a compact promising
  to write and obey "just and equal laws ... for
  the general good of the colony."
• The compact brought an element of democracy to
  America and was an example of the practice of
  self-government in the colonies.
• All the colonies practiced some form of
  self-government

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Plymouth Colony

• Pilgrims
• Separatists (separating from the Church of
  England the bible is the authority)
• Mayflower Compact (two groups of people on the
  ship not just Pilgrims)

Squanto
William Bradford
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Massachusetts Bay Colony

• We must be knit together in this work, as one
• man. We must entertain each other in
• brotherly affection.We must delight in each
• other make others conditions
• our own rejoice together,
• journey together, labor and
• suffer together. For we must
• consider that we shall be as
• a city upon a hill. The eyes of all
• people are upon us.

John Winthrop
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Massachusetts Bay Colony cont

• Puritans (purify the Church of England)
• Great Migration (from 1630 to 1643 went from
  1,000 to 20,000). Very successful
• 1700 in Mass 93,00 living pretty comfortably
• Dark Moment Salem
• Witch Trials (20 men and
• women were executed in
• 1692) National Geographic
• Experience

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Puritan Dissenters Banished from Puritan
society Rhode Island

• Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson
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Wars with Indian and Colonists

• Pequot War (Movie)
• Puritans (and Narragansetts) vs Pequots
• Puritan attacked Pequot fort and set it on fire,
  shot anyone who tried to leave
• King Philips War (Metacom)
• Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmucks
• Metacom (son of Massasoit) as chief
• Attack outlying Puritan towns guerilla style
• 1000 colonists kill, 3000 Indians, including
  Metacom. Head displayed for 25 years.

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• The English who came first to this country were
  but a handful
• of people, forlorn, poor and distressed. My
  father was then
• sachem, he relieved their distresses in the most
  kind and
• Hospitable manner. He gave them land to plant
  and build
• upon.They flourished and increased. By various
  means they
• got possession of a great part of this territory.
  But he still
• remained their friend till he died. My elder
• brother became a sachem. He was seized
• and confined and thereby thrown into
• illness and died. Soon after I became
• sachem they disarmed all my people
• their land was taken. But (only) a small
• part of the dominion (territory) of my
• ancestors remains. I am determined not
• to live (that is, not to simply keep on
• living) until I have no country.
• Metacom, 1675

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New England Colonies

• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New Hampshire

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Colonial Life--North

• COMMERCE TRIANGLE TRADE
• SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING
• LAND
• FARMING

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Colonial Economies

• Mercantilism
• Purpose of the colonies to benefit the power and
  wealth of Great BritainGreater wealth means
  greater power.
• Diagram

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Slave Trade/Triangular Trade
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Middle Colonies

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• Delaware

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Southern Colonies

• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

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Colonial Life--South

• FARMING
• LARGE FARMS--NO TOWNS
• CHEAP LABOR WITH INDENTURED SERVANTS

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Bacons RebellionNathaniel Bacon vs William
Berkeley

• Economic hardship
• Settlers accidently attacked a group of friendly
  Indians
• Marched on Jamestown to demand govt protect them
• After months of chaosburned Jamestown100 killed
• Results
• DID NOT SUCCEED--WEALTHY IN CONTROL
• INDENTURED SERVANTS DANGEROUS--USE SLAVES

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Ever though the 4th church was burned during
Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 the tower remained
undamaged and intact. It has been preserved as
part of this national park.