Today’s Standard SSUSH1 e. Analyze the impact of location on colonial settlement; include the southern and New England colonies.

The Pilgrims and the Southern Colonies 1623-1733 Colonial America The Pilgrims and the Southern Colonies 1623-1733

The Backstory 1534 – England King Henry VIII rules Trying to have a son, he ends of having 6 wives The Catholic Church forbids divorce so… Henry forms his own church to make his own rules The Church of England

The Pilgrims The Church of England’s non-Biblical traditions make many people unhappy 1) Separatists also known as the Pilgrims leave England for N. America in 1620 They left to escape the Church of England 2) They felt was too much like the traditional Catholic Church. 3) Originally set out for a settlement near Jamestown but ended up near Massachusetts They named it Plymouth

The Pilgrims A government was drawn up 4) Mayflower Compact Established self-rule Look out king… Needed help from Natives to survive Winter was harsh / hunger 5) Squanto helped Taught them how to grow corn 6) 1691 – They merge with the Mass. Bay Colony

Religious Dissent = New Colonies 1. A) New Hampshire – 1623 B) Connecticut – 1636 C) Rhode Island – 1636 These three colonies came from Massachusetts due to religious disagreements with the Puritans Williams and Hutchinson 2) Thomas Hooker Wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut The first constitution in the colonies

The Chesapeake and the Southern Colonies 1) 1634 – Lord Baltimore and a group of Catholics leave England for North America Maryland 2) Like the Quakers in Pennsylvania, Maryland extended religious tolerance to its settlers

The Chesapeake and the Southern Colonies 3) 1638 - Sweden tries at colonization New Sweden – near the Delaware River The Dutch take it over, then England takes over Becomes Delaware in 1702

The Chesapeake and the Southern Colonies 4) 1663 – King Charles II Grants a charter for the colonists to settle a colony between Virginia and Florida Carolina Eventually split into North and South Carolina 5) Rice farming Massive amounts of slaves The south is becoming more and more aristocratic and steeped in the use of slave labor

The Chesapeake and the Southern Colonies 1664 Colonists in the New York area leave and settle another colony 6) New Jersey

The Chesapeake and the Southern Colonies 1733 7) James Oglethorpe brings a group of settlers to establish a colony further south Georgia A buffer zone from Spanish Florida and a new start for poor people from England Eventually becomes under the ownership of the Crown and goes to the plantation system

Wrap Up Why did the Pilgrims leave England? Where did they land? What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact? What was the result of the religious tension and disagreements in New England? What was the significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut? What are we beginning to notice about the lifestyle / economy of the southern colonies?