Jamestown/Mass. Bay Colonies
1) In it for the $$, named after King James
2) Founded 22 years before the first Mass. Bay Colony
(Winthrop got a joint stock company)
3) Primarily a puritan colony
4) Jamestown was mostly church of England
5) Original colonists were mostly men
6) Jamestown was more for business, not for families
7) Jamestown had a lot of deaths from starvation and disease
8) 38 colonists remained by 1608
9) John Smith took control “you don’t work you don’t eat”
10)Profitable crop was tobacco
King Charles/Dutch Colonies
1) New Amsterdam as a trade center
2) Bought land from local Indians
3) 1664 New Amsterdam Gov Peter Stuyvescent surrendered the colony to
the English, renamed New York
4) Dutch West Indian co founded in 1681 as trading co in New World
5) King Charles was monarch of England
6) Very diverse, even had free Africans. Everyone was welcome
7) Dutch business men formed this colony
8) Ft. Orange was northern most outpost and became Albany
9) Henry Hudson was hired to find the NE passage-he failed
10)Not much interest in agriculture, focused on fur trade
11)Expansion caused conflicts with other colonists and native americans
Head right
System/Indentured Servitude
1) Ind servants were poor men who agreed to work in exchange for going
to the colonies
2) Head right System created in 1618, 50 acres given to anyone who
brought an indentured servant to the colonies
3) Colonists were already residing in Virginia were granted 2 head right
systems
4) Indentured servants fare across the Atlantic paid in full by their master
5) Used mainly in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Maryland.
6) Increased population in the British colonies.
7) The growth of tobacco, rice and indigo was a result of this system
8) Plantation economy created a need for labor in southern colonies
9) Indentured servants were considered property.
Puritans/Pilgrims/Middle
Colonies
1) Colonists settled there because of fertile soil, long seasons
and religious freedom
2) Puritan church members wanted to reform the church of
England
3) They were not able to change the church so they moved
4) Pilgrims are people who journeyed for religious reasons.
5) Some Puritans became separatists known as Pilgrims.
6) Pilgrims felt they were chosen by god and must live every
minute in a god fearing manor.
7) Very diverse society
8) Salem witch trials were partly the result of this strict religious
beliefs.
The Great Awakening
1) Church was losing members in the 1700’s.
2) Benjamin Franklin was one of the champions of this movement
3) Preachers attracted thousands of people and stirring themselves
to rededicate themselves to god
4) Lasted from 1730’s to 1740’s
5) Brought native American and African americans into the church
6) Jonathon Edwards was a big part in renewing the church
7) Jonathon Edwards said that being religious was more than
showing up at church.
8) They questioned authority and this is called enlightenment.
9) Led by evangelical protestant Christians
10)Pastors read their sermons as arguments
11)Improved the education for the less wealthy