Indians fishing with weir and spears in a dugout canoe.
The drawing was made somewhere in the region of the colony of Virginia. published 1590.

Native Americans make a dugout canoe with seashell scrapers
.

Noble?
Or Savages?

Fanciful depiction of
Devil worship and cannibalism in South America, by Caspar Plautius, 1621

Pocahontas in space?

Christopher Columbus claims the New World

Christopher Columbus
Hero or villain?

Bartolomé de las Casas

Portuguese Empire
Red - actual possessions ; Olive - explorations
Orange - areas of influence and trade
Pink - claims of sovereignty ; Green - trading posts
Blue - main sea explorations, routes and areas of influence.

Elizabeth

James I

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Captain John Smith

The baptism of Pocahontas
John Gadsby Chapman; Oil on canvas, 12' x 18‘ Commissioned 1837; placed 1840; Rotunda
Pocahontas, wearing white, being baptized Rebecca by Anglican minister Alexander Whiteaker in Jamestown, Virginia; this event is believed to have taken place in 1613 or 1614. Her brother Nantequaus turns away from the ceremony. The baptism took place before her marriage to Englishman John Rolfe, who stands behind her. Their union is said to be the first recorded marriage between a European and a Native American. The scene symbolizes the belief of Americans at the time that Native Americans should accept Christianity and other European ways.

1. House of Burgesses – first legislature in the Americas
2. Success of tobacco – John Rolfe
3. Introduction of African slaves – would eventually replace indentured servants

The embarkation of the Pilgrims

William Bradford, governor of Plymouth
Colony

Signing of the Mayflower Compact Nov. 11,
1620

The Mayflower Compact 1620
In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine , Franc , & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c
Haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of
Virginia , doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick , for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye
.11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne
Lord King James, of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom. 1620.
“Civil body politic”

John Winthrop
Governor of Massachusetts
“A city upon a hill”

Mrs. John
Winthrop

Roger Williams
Father of religious freedom in
America and founder of
Rhode Island

“Anne Hutchinson on
Trial" by Edwin Austin Abbey

Lord Baltimore,
Founder of
Maryland

No connection to Quakers

Pequot War, 1637

Metacom,
Aka “King Philip”
Son of Massasoit
King Philip’s War
1675-1676

King Philip
(Metacom)

Sir Edmund Andros
Dominion of New England
1686-1689

Salem Witch Trials, 1692

Witch hanging in Europe

Control by the elite - pyramid
Gov. William Berkeley
Elite landowners (first families)
Yeomen
Freedmen
Indentured Servants (white)
Slaves (black)

Growth of
Slavery

Brands in the Wilberforce Museum, Hull, England

1. Colonies exist to serve the mother country.
2. The government should help and protect its own merchants.
3. Wealth is measured by how much gold the country possesses.
4. War is a natural state since people will fight over limited resources.

Navigation Acts protected British interests

George
Whitefield

Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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• Intellectual movement that started in Europe
• Emphasized reason and progress
• Centered among wealthy and well-educated, not the common people
• Many Enlightenment thinkers were Deists
(believed in God, but not the Bible)
Franklin, Jefferson, Paine,
Washington, Adams, Madison

Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
• Printer
• Scientist
• Inventor
• Diplomat
• Statesman

About 1750

French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

British troops
In America
1772

Boston Tea Party

Paul
Revere

General George
Washington , was appointed
Commanderin-Chief of the
Continental
Army on June
15 , 1775 .

Common Sense
By Thomas Paine

Siege of Yorktown
1781

The surrender of the British at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781
John Trumbull, US Capitol Rotunda