Beginnings of

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Beginnings of Jamestown
Life at Jamestown
Plymouth
Settling New England
Settling The Middle
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Prior to the settlement at Jamestown, this man
tried to organize an effort to establish a colony
in both 1585 and 1587.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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John White led the colonists (for Raleigh) to the
New World and this is where they settled.
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Roanoke
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In this year, the settlement at Jamestown was
established.
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1607
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This joint-stock company financed and organized
the effort to create a colony in the land that
would become known as Virginia.
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The Virginia Company of Londonorthe London
Company
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This man issued the charter allowing for a
settlement between present-day North Carolina and
the Potomac River.
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King James I
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This man led the colonists at Jamestown with
policies like If you dont work, you dont
eat.
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John Smith
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This crop eventually led to economic prosperity
for Jamestown, which was the initial goal of the
organizing company.
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Tobacco
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This man brought tobacco seeds/plants to
Jamestown, experimenting with them in order to
find a profitable plant that Europeans would
enjoy smoking.
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John Rolfe
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Plantations required a lot of labor, so owners
hired these people that agreed to work a certain
number of years (3-7 usually) in order for
passage to America.
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Indentured Servants
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Relations between the Native Americans and the
colonists were somewhat stable after Rolfe
married Pocahontas. However, relations declined
after the death of this man in 1618.
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Powhatan
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The Puritans want to change the Anglican Church
from within to rid it of Roman Catholic
influence. This group decided to worship by
themselves instead.
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Separatists
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The Pilgrims were Separatists that went to the
Netherlands in 1608. However, they decided to
organize a move to America, and this man helped
finance the voyage and found the Mayflower.
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John Carver
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The Pilgrims landed at Cape Code, Massachusetts
in November of 1620 before finding Plymouth
harbor in December. Prior to going ashore, the
Pilgrims signed this document that established
self-government and majority rules.
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The Mayflower Compact
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After struggling through the first winter, the
Pilgrims met Samoset and Massasoit, but this man
taught them the necessary survival skills that
allowed them to have an abundant harvest, leading
to the first Thanksgiving .
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Squanto
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This man was the second governor of the Plymouth
colony.
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William Bradford
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This movement describes the journey of roughly
16,000 Puritans from England to Massachusetts
between 1620 and 1630.
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The Great Migration
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Although the Puritans came to America to find
freedom for their own beliefs, they did not
believe in this the acceptance of different
beliefs.
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Toleration(tolerance)
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This man was asked to leave the Massachusetts Bay
Colony (Boston) that John Winthrop started,
because he believed in such things as -separation
of church and state AND treating the Native
Americans with fairness and respect.
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Roger Williams
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Like Roger Williams, this woman was also asked to
leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She had
undermined the power of the church by suggesting
that people could worship God on their own within
the home.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Thomas Hooker led his congregation from
Massachusetts to Connecticut in search of more
farmland for the people. Once there, they wrote
this the first American constitution to be
written.
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River for the
Dutch, leading to the establishment of New
Netherlands, which changed names to this when the
English took over.
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New York
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The Dutch encouraged growth in New Amsterdam by
giving land and power to these wealthy land
owners in exchange for bringing in at least 50
new settlers to work on their estates.
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Patroons
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King Charles II sent James, Duke of York, to take
the land from the Dutch. As the Duke of York had
trouble managing his land, he gave part to Lord
John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. The land,
once split as east and west, eventually became
this colony.
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New Jersey
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a home to
this religious community (group).
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Quakers
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This colony had once been part of Pennsylvania,
and had previously provided William Penns colony
access to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Delaware