JamestownPocahontas

and John RolfeTobacco Plantatio

nVIRGINIA/JAMES-TOWN

1607

Capt. John Smith

John Rolfe

London (Virginia)Company- English gentlemen & Plymouth Company- not family men

Profit •Agriculture – tobacco •Indentured servants- first Africans arrived in 1619•House of Burgesses= America’s first legislature

Named after King James I

PilgrimsMayflower

“City Upon a Hill”

“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”- John Winthrop

MASSA -CHUSETTS

1620-Plymouth

1628-Mass. Bay

Pilgrims

John Winthrop

Pilgrims- Puritan separatists

Puritans (not separatists)

Religious haven and profit

Pilgrims settle Plymouth- live & farm

Mayflower Compact= laws to protect general good (self government)

Mass Bay thrives

colony’s success inspired Great Migration

John Wheelwright

Separation between church and state forced him to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony

New Hampshire

1623

John Mason

John Wheelwright

English Settlers led by Capt. Mason

Seekers of religious freedom

Profit and Wheel-wright banished from Mass Bay for defending Anne Hutchinson

Started as fishing village

Exeter Compact like MayflowerCompact

King Charles II separated New Hampshire out of Mass Bay to gain more control

New Jersey

1623-Dutch

1664-land grant

Sir George Carteretand Lord Berkley

First est. by the Dutch

Quakers eventually bought upproperty

Profit

Real estate sales

Religious freedom/assembly promised to attract settlers

Originally named “New Nether-lands”

James, Duke of York

Originally New Amsterdam

New York

1624- Dutch

1664- English

Peter Minuit

Duke of York

Diverse population

Originally Dutch settlement

Taken over by King Charles II granted to James II to get Dutch out

Originally named “New Amsterdam “

Bought for $24

Lord Baltimore

Religious Haven for Catholics

Maryland

1633

GeorgeCalvert=Lord Baltimore

English Settlers

Trade

Became haven for Catholics

Colony had problems w/ climate, disease & Indian attacks

Named for Queen Mary I

Separation of Church and State

Anne Hutchinson

Rhode Island

1636

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Seekers of religiousand political freedom

Puritan dissident colony

Williams & Hutchinsondriven from Salem – believed church and state should be separate

Unique charter that established religious freedom

Thomas Hooker

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Connecti-cut1636

Puritan Reverend Thomas Hooker

Dutch and English settlers

Puritan dissident colony

Fertile valley

“Orders” was first constitution in American history

People wanted a more democratic form of gov.

Land given to the Delaware Indians by William Penn

Delaware

1638

Dutch Capt. Peter Minuit , Swedish settlersand William Penn (controlled briefly)

Dutch, Swedish and English settlers

Industrial Gains

Fertile land

Whale oil production

Changed power many times

Swedish brought log cabins

Farm based economy

North Carolina

1653

Eight men were given grants to the Carolinas

Virginia Colonists

Colonists wanted buffer zone from Spanish Florida

Small, self-sufficient tobacco farmers; good harbors, poor transportation

More democratic,independent

Lost colony of Roanoke in NC

Carolus is Latin for Charles (II)

South Carolina

1663

Sir John Yeamans

English colonists

Agricultural profit

Rice plantations and heavy reliance on slave labor

Economy and culture resembled West Indies

Sir John Yeamans

William Penn

Pennsylvania

1682

William Penn

Swedish, Dutch, English and Quakers (Society of Friends)

Farming

“The Holy Experiment”1.Religious refuge2.Liberal gov.3.Personal profit

“Forrest of Penn”=Pennsylvania

Georgia

1732

General James Edward Oglethorpe

Soldiers, outcasts and prisoners

King George II wanted “buffer zone” forprotection and criminals

est. plantations and farms- still poor colony

Ran by military

Oglethrorpe banned rum – king repealed his ban

Roanoke Roanoke ColonyColony

Jamestown Jamestown