The English Colonies

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The English Colonies

• Chapter 2 Section 3

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Atlantic Coast

• The Spanish colonized the south and west
• The French colonized the North
• The Atlantic Coast was left open for England

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Early Attempts

• Wealthy Englishmen obtained charters to establish
  new colonies in the New World
• Colonies were to be populated by the English
  poor, and were to generate new wealth for England

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Jamestown

• Founded in 1607
• The first permanent English settlement
• Pocahontas was captured and forced to marry John
  Rolfe
• Colonists turned to tobacco farming for money

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Free Land

• Tobacco farming became so profitable, free land
  was given to anyone who made the trip
• Massive landholdings were acquired by the
  wealthiest colonists

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Government

• The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first
  representative government in America
• H.o.B. had the power to make laws and raise taxes.

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Proprietary or Royal

• Colonies were either controlled by the Crown
  (Royal) or by wealthy individuals (proprietary)

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Bacons Rebellion

• Farmers wanted to settle on land in Western
  Virginia that was promised to the Powhatan
  Indians.
• Colonists demanded the govt protect them, they
  refused.

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• Led by Nathaniel Bacon, colonists raided
  Jamestown and burned the city
• Bacon died and his rebellion collapsed

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Maryland

• Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1632.
• Named after King Charles French wife, Henrietta
  Marie

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• Lord Baltimore founded Maryland as a haven for
  fellow Roman Catholics against the Protestant
  majority

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The Carolinas

• After Oliver Cromwell died, power was restored to
  the king (the Restoration)
• The King rewarded his supporters with grants of
  land
• Carolina, the Latin form of Charles

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Georgia

• Georgia was founded as a social experiment
• James Oglethorpe planned the colony in order to
  provide a fresh start for Englands poor

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• The colony was also there to provide a buffer
  between the Seminole Indians and the Carolinas

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• The colony had rigid rules including no rum or
  slavery, so it attracted few settlers
• Eventually Oglethorpe gave up his experiment and
  Georgia became a Royal Colony