Warmup, August
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Write a Haiku about mercantilism.
Jamestown
• Virginia Company, charter
from James I
• 1606: 3 ships, 144 men
• Swampy, malaria
mosquitoes
• Refused to do manual
labor; tough lawmaking
• Only 53 of 200 survived
through 1608
• Free land for 7 years of
work
• August 1609: 400 new
settlers
Jamestown
Jamestown
• 1607: John Smith
established trade with
Powhatan Confederacy
• Winter of 1609: “Starving
time”
• Survival before profit
– Plan A 1610: 6 hours per
day required for all
– Plan B 1614: Private
cultivation: 1 month of
work, 2.5 barrels of corn,
keep the rest
Pocahantas
The real story
As you watch:
1. Take notes on
real story.
2. What did Disney
get right and
wrong? Why?
The fake story
Jamestown
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Profit 1614: John Rolfe
King James I called it:
“Vile weed
Harmful to the brain
Dangerous to the lungs
Black stinking fumes “baleful” to the nose”
Jamestown
• “Virginia”
• Reforms: right to elect its own assembly
• First general assembly July 30, 1619
– Governor
– 6 councilors
– 20 representatives (2 from each of 10 towns)
called “burgesses”
– House of Burgesses
Jamestown
• Headrights: buy a share of the company or
pay for passage…get 50 acres
• 50 more acres for each family member and
servant over 15 years old
• 1619
– first African “Christian servants”
– 90 women
Jamestown
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By 1622, 4500 settlers had arrived
March 1622, attacked by Native Americans
350 settlers killed
English court revoked Virginia Company’s
charter
• Virginia became a royal company
• Puritans:
separatists
broke from
Anglican Church
(“purify”
religion of
Catholicism)
• James I
imprisoned
separatist
leaders
Plymouth
•One group fled in 1608 to Netherlands, called “Pilgrims”
•Left Holland, joined other separatists in Eng, sailed to American
•Mayflower, 1620: 102 passengers, 65 days, rough weather
•Landed at Plymouth
Time for the
Mayflower Compact Primary Source
Analysis!
Thanksgiving
• Built common house
• Plague killed all but 50 settlers
• Squanto: “directed them how to set their corn, where
to take fish and [how] to procure other commodities.”
• Peace treaty with Wampanoag people
• Fun fact: President George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide
“Thanksgiving” in America November 26, 1789: "as a day of public
thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful
hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God"
• Unemployment in England
• John Winthrop and others held stock in Massachusetts Bay
Company
• March 1630, 11 ships, 900 settlers
• 17 additional ships with 1,000 settlers brought later
• “Great Migration”
Puritans
Church and State
• Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony:
– “Freemen” owned stock in company
– Formed General Court to make laws
• John Winthrop locked charter away; made
own laws
• Each congregation control own church,
government supports church
• Church attendance required
• Gambling, blasphemy, adultery, drunkenness all illegal
• Heretics considered threat to the community
John Winthrop: City on a Hill
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon
a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if
we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we
have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his
present help from us, we shall be made a story and
a byword throughout the world.