Coming to America Chapter 3. Vocabulary Section 1 charters - the right to organize a settlement in America (given by the king) joint-stock company - investors.

Coming to AmericaChapter 3

Vocabulary• Section 1• charters - the right to organize a settlement in America (given by

the king)• joint-stock company - investors bought stock, (part ownership) in

a company in return for a share of its future profits• burgesses - elected representatives (in Virginia)

Attempts At Settlement

• 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth.• 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh discovered Roanoke Island as a potential

settlement sight.• 1585 Raleigh sent 100 men to settle the island. After one harsh winter

they return to England disgruntled and discouraged.• 1587 Raleigh tries again sending 91 men, 17 women, and 9 children to

Roanoke Island.

Lost Colony of Roanoke

• John White, a mapmaker and artist led the group to settle Roanoke Island. • Soon after their arrival White’s daughter gave birth naming the baby

Virginia Dare.• Virginia Dare was the first English born baby on the North American

Continent. • White returned to England for supplies. War with Spain delayed his

return for three years. • CROATOAN

Jamestown

• 1606 Virginia company (joint-stock company) received a charter from King James I to try to settle a colony. • 3 ships with 144 settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay and

established the Jamestown settlement.• Living in Jamestown was very difficult. Spring 1608 only 38 settlers

were surviving.

Jamestown

• Although no gold was found, tobacco became the main cash crop.• Colonists began to work harder after they gained ownership of land.• All colonist who paid their own way to America received 50 acres.• Thousands moved to Virginia. Government became an issue. • 1619 Virginia company allowed ten towns to elect representatives

called burgesses. • 30 July, 1619 House of Burgesses met for the first time in a church in

Jamestown.

Jamestown

• Problems?• Labor?• Family?• Money?

• 1624 King James cancelled Virginias charter and Jamestown became the first royal colony for England in America.

New England Colonies Vocab

• Vocab• Section 2• dissented - disagreed• persecuted - to be punished or treated harshly because of your

beliefs• Puritans - a religious group in England who wanted to reform

the Anglican Church (Church of England)

Vocab

• Separatists - people who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and set up their own churches• Pilgrims - a group of Separatists who wanted to settle in

Virginia•Mayflower Compact - a document drawn up by the Pilgrims

stating their intentions to govern themselves• toleration - to be accepting of others religious beliefs

New England Colonies

• Why come to America?• Religious Freedom.• The Mayflower Compact: “a civil body politic, for our better ordering

and preservation” “for the general good of the colony”.• Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

Plymouth

The young man looked around at the other passengers aboard the Mayflower. He and the other passengers sailed to the new world not knowing what they would find. They had muskets but knew little about shooting. They planned to fish but knew nothing about fishing. They had hoped to settle in Virginia but instead landed in New England without enough supplies to last the winter. The only thing these people had plenty of was courage. They would need it….• Squanto and Samoset.• Treaty with Massasoit in March 1621.

New Settlements

• 1629 Massachusetts Bay Company consisted of 900 men women and children that settled the Massachusetts Bay area. • Founded Boston. Leader was John Winthrop. Puritan colony.• 1636 Thomas Hooker led followers through wilderness to establish

Hartford Connecticut.• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

New Settlements

• 1635 Rhode Island settled by exiled colonists from Massachusetts. • Roger Williams. Tolerant. Separation of church and state.• Rhode Island first place in America where religious freedom

was practiced. • Conflict with Native Americans. King Philip’s War.• Enabled expansion of colonies.

Middle Colonies

• Vocab• patroons - wealthy Dutch landowners who acquired large estates• proprietary colony - a colony where the owner, or proprietor,

owned all the land and controlled the government• pacifists - people who refuse to use force or to fight in wars

Middle Colonies

• Pennsylvania founded by William Penn in 1680.• Philadelphia- “city of brotherly love”.• By 1683 more than 3,000 English, Welsh, Irish, Dutch, and German

settlers had come the Pennsylvania.• Three Lower Counties.

• Why was Pennsylvania considered a Holy Experiment.

The Southern Colonies

• Section 4• indentured servants - a person who agreed to work without pay for

a certain period of time, in return they were given free passage to the colonies• constitution - a written plan of government• debtors - people who are unable to repay their debts - many were

sent to prison in the 17th century• tenant farmers - a settler who paid an annual rent and worked for

the landowner for a fixed number of days each year• missions - religious settlements established to convert people to a

particular faith

Southern Colonies

• “His Majesty’s seven-year passengers”• Many people came to the colonies as indentured servants.

Southern Colonies

• Maryland settled by Sir Calvert Lord Baltimore.

• 100 Acres given for each man, 100 for his wife, 100 for each servant, and 50 for each child.

• Labor?

• Mason-Dixon Line

Southern Colony

Bacon’s Rebellion

Southern Colonies

• The Carolinas

• John Locke

• North Vs South

• Slave Labor-by 1708 more than half the people living in the Carolinas were enslaved Africans.

Southern Colonies

• Georgia

• James Oglethorpe

• Savannah

• “Our Perpetual Dictator”

•Label Each Colony.•Locate and label the first settlement of each colony.•What group of people settled the colony?•Who led the group?•What year was it settled?•What type of government did they have?•What was/were the main crop/crops of the colony?•Give me one important event in American History that took place in this colony.