The American Colonies
Emerge
The First Settlements
 Roanoke
 1580s
 First attempt at colonization
 “CROATOAN”
The First Settlements
 Jamestown
 1607
 First permanent English settlement
 Virginia Company
The First Settlements
 Jamestown (cont’d)
 “Starving time”
 Eventually prospered
 “brown gold”
 Indentured servants
 Clashes with Native Americans
 Cultural differences
 Virginia Company charter revoked
 Economic differences
 Population of Virginia
 Sir William Berkeley
 Bacon’s rebellion
The New England Colonies
 Background: Challenges to the Roman Catholic Church
 Protestants
 Martin Luther
 Henry VIII
 Puritans
 Separatists
 Pilgrims
The New England Colonies
 Pilgrims
 1620
 Second permanent English settlement (Plymouth Colony)
 Mayflower Compact
 Massachusetts Bay Colony
 1630
 John Winthrop
 “City upon a hill”
The New England Colonies
 The Puritan mind
 Strict
 Views of religion/God
 Views of children
 Views of women
 Views of those who disagreed with their way of life
 Roger Williams
 Rhode Island
 Anne Hutchinson
The New England Colonies
 Clashes with Native Americans
 Peqout War
 King Philip’s War
 Metacom
The Middle Colonies
 Pennsylvania
 William Penn
 Quakers/Society of Friends
 Principles
 “Holy experiment”
 Relationship with Native Americans
 Colonial growth and change
The Middle Colonies
 New Netherland
 Dutch West India Company
 Slow to attract Dutch settlers
 Relationship with Native Americans
 “Dutch wedge”
 Peter Stuyvesant
 Duke of York