Unit 2
Chapter 3
Colonial America
Section 1 Early English Settlements
• Trading rivalry between Spain and
England going on since 1500’s
• England secured East coast of North
America thru exploration
• Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to have first
permanent English settlement @
Roanoke
– Settlement disappeared.. No one knows what
happened….
Jamestown
• Sir Walter Raleigh’s failure inspired more
settlers
• Joint stock company
• Company in the business of transporting settlers to
the New World
Virginia company- brought first settlers to
Jamestown
Jamestown
• 1607- Jamestown is established
• Important b/c FIRST PERMANENT
ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
• Built on peninsula
• Settlers had major problems
– Swampy land, settlers lazy, used all their food
in the first few months, disease, dirty water
Jamestown
• Captain John Smith
– Work or STARVE rule
Settlers had a choice, work or die..
Saved Jamestown
Disney
Real life..
John Rolfe- the TOBACCO KING. Brought tobacco to
Jamestown. Married Pocahontas
Cash crop= stability and $$
Representative Govt.
• In every one of the 13 colonies a
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT was
est.
• Virginia House of Burgesses-first
representative government in colonies
• Paved the way for all 13 colonies
• Burgesses were representatives elected by
rich, white men to make laws for the
colony
New England Colonies
• Puritans/Separatists left Europe b/c of
persecution
• Pilgrims (separatists) left for the 13
colonies 1620, bound for Virginia..ended
up in Massachusetts.
• Settled Plymouth
• Mayflower Compact- agreement of the
men on the ship that made laws for the
new colony that were right and just= SELF
RULE!!!
Native Americans
• Squanto and Samoset helped colonists
in Plymouth..showing how to fish, hunt
– After the English were rude and mean to
them. Stealing food, killing..
• English settlers were not welcoming to
Indians
Massachusetts and other settlements
• John Winthrop- brought settlers to
Mass. VERY strict Puritan.
• Mass. Had an elected assembly like
Virginia
• No toleration in Mass. Puritan RULE
Connecticut and RI
• Thomas Hooker- Conn. He didn’t agree
with Puritans, so he moved
– Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• First constitution in the COLONIES
• Roger Williams est. Rhode Island.. A haven for
criminals
Middle Colonies
• New York- England took it over from the
Dutch (Holland, Netherlands)
• Duke of York, king’s brother, in charge
• New Jersey- southern part of NY
• Pennsylvania- William Penn (Quaker
Oats guy)
– Quakers settled here.. Pacifists, didn’t fight,
friends with Indians.. Everyone is equal and
they were very tolerant
Southern Colonies
• 1619 African slaves brought to Jamestown
• Southern colonies had cash crops
• From Maryland to Georgia cash crops were
grown. Tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton
• Maryland- Lord Baltimore- Act of Toleration
granted Protestants and Catholics to worship
freely
• Bacon’s Rebellion- Bacon led angry settlers to
attack Indians that were on “their” land. He and
his followers set fire to Jamestown
Carolinas, Georgia
• Carolinas will split due to crop differences
• North- tobacco
• South- rice
• Georgia- James Oglethorpe brought debtors to the
region for a new beginning
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No drinking
No slaves
All the same size farms
Rules didn’t last long!!
Map Instructions
Label each colony and color the regions as
follows.. DO NOT LABEL MAINE
New England- red
Middle- Blue
Southern- Yellow
Label the Proclamation of 1763 line
(westward boundary, I will pull up a map to
show)