Coming to America

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Coming to America

• Chapter 3

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Vocabulary

• Section 1
• charters - the right to organize a settlement in
  America (given by the king)
• joint-stock company - investors bought stock,
  (part ownership) in a company in return for a
  share of its future profits
• burgesses - elected representatives (in Virginia)

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Attempts At Settlement

• 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland
  for Queen Elizabeth.
• 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh discovered Roanoke Island
  as a potential settlement sight.
• 1585 Raleigh sent 100 men to settle the island.
  After one harsh winter they return to England
  disgruntled and discouraged.
• 1587 Raleigh tries again sending 91 men, 17
  women, and 9 children to Roanoke Island.

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Lost Colony of Roanoke

• John White, a mapmaker and artist led the group
  to settle Roanoke Island.
• Soon after their arrival Whites daughter gave
  birth naming the baby Virginia Dare.
• Virginia Dare was the first English born baby on
  the North American Continent.
• White returned to England for supplies. War with
  Spain delayed his return for three years.
• CROATOAN

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Jamestown

• 1606 Virginia company (joint-stock company)
  received a charter from King James I to try to
  settle a colony.
• 3 ships with 144 settlers sailed up the
  Chesapeake Bay and established the Jamestown
  settlement.
• Living in Jamestown was very difficult. Spring
  1608 only 38 settlers were surviving.

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Jamestown

• Although no gold was found, tobacco became the
  main cash crop.
• Colonists began to work harder after they gained
  ownership of land.
• All colonist who paid their own way to America
  received 50 acres.
• Thousands moved to Virginia. Government became an
  issue.
• 1619 Virginia company allowed ten towns to elect
  representatives called burgesses.
• 30 July, 1619 House of Burgesses met for the
  first time in a church in Jamestown.

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Jamestown

• Problems?
• Labor?
• Family?
• Money?
• 1624 King James cancelled Virginias charter and
  Jamestown became the first royal colony for
  England in America.

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New England Colonies Vocab

• Vocab
• Section 2
• dissented - disagreed
• persecuted - to be punished or treated harshly
  because of your beliefs
• Puritans - a religious group in England who
  wanted to reform the Anglican Church (Church of
  England)

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Vocab

• Separatists - people who wanted to leave the
  Anglican Church and set up their own churches
• Pilgrims - a group of Separatists who wanted to
  settle in Virginia
• Mayflower Compact - a document drawn up by the
  Pilgrims stating their intentions to govern
  themselves
• toleration - to be accepting of others religious
  beliefs

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New England Colonies

• Why come to America?
• Religious Freedom.
• The Mayflower Compact a civil body politic, for
  our better ordering and preservation for the
  general good of the colony.
• Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

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Plymouth

• The young man looked around at the other
  passengers aboard the Mayflower. He and the other
  passengers sailed to the new world not knowing
  what they would find. They had muskets but knew
  little about shooting. They planned to fish but
  knew nothing about fishing. They had hoped to
  settle in Virginia but instead landed in New
  England without enough supplies to last the
  winter. The only thing these people had plenty of
  was courage. They would need it.
• Squanto and Samoset.
• Treaty with Massasoit in March 1621.

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New Settlements

• 1629 Massachusetts Bay Company consisted of 900
  men women and children that settled the
  Massachusetts Bay area.
• Founded Boston. Leader was John Winthrop. Puritan
  colony.
• 1636 Thomas Hooker led followers through
  wilderness to establish Hartford Connecticut.
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

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New Settlements

• 1635 Rhode Island settled by exiled colonists
  from Massachusetts.
• Roger Williams. Tolerant. Separation of church
  and state.
• Rhode Island first place in America where
  religious freedom was practiced.
• Conflict with Native Americans. King Philips
  War.
• Enabled expansion of colonies.

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Middle Colonies

• Vocab
• patroons - wealthy Dutch landowners who acquired
  large estates
• proprietary colony - a colony where the owner, or
  proprietor, owned all the land and controlled
  the government
• pacifists - people who refuse to use force or to
  fight in wars

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Middle Colonies

• Pennsylvania founded by William Penn in 1680.
• Philadelphia- city of brotherly love.
• By 1683 more than 3,000 English, Welsh, Irish,
  Dutch, and German settlers had come the
  Pennsylvania.
• Three Lower Counties.
• Why was Pennsylvania considered a Holy
  Experiment.

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The Southern Colonies

• Section 4
• indentured servants - a person who agreed to work
  without pay for a certain period of time, in
  return they were given free passage to the
  colonies
• constitution - a written plan of government
• debtors - people who are unable to repay their
  debts - many were sent to prison in the 17th
  century
• tenant farmers - a settler who paid an annual
  rent and worked for the landowner for a fixed
  number of days each year
• missions - religious settlements established to
  convert people to a particular faith

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Southern Colonies

• His Majestys seven-year passengers
• Many people came to the colonies as indentured
  servants.

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Southern Colonies

• Maryland settled by Sir Calvert Lord Baltimore.
• 100 Acres given for each man, 100 for his wife,
  100 for each servant, and 50 for each child.
• Labor?
• Mason-Dixon Line

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Southern Colony

• Bacons Rebellion

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Southern Colonies

• The Carolinas
• John Locke
• North Vs South
• Slave Labor-by 1708 more than half the people
  living in the Carolinas were enslaved Africans.

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Southern Colonies

• Georgia
• James Oglethorpe
• Savannah
• Our Perpetual Dictator

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• Label Each Colony.
• Locate and label the first settlement of each
  colony.
• What group of people settled the colony?
• Who led the group?
• What year was it settled?
• What type of government did they have?
• What was/were the main crop/crops of the colony?
• Give me one important event in American History
  that took place in this colony.