Early American Colonies Chapter 3 Early American Colonies
Colonizing America John Smith and Pocahontas John Rolfe and Tobacco The Beginning of Self Governing
Jamestown goes belly up Financial troubles hit hard King James cancels the charter and makes it a royal colony
Virginia House of Burgesses The first representative government in America 1619
Story Time with Mr. Beat
New England Colonies New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island
New England Colonies Religious Freedom Anglican Church Puritans and Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact Created a “civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation” A contract where signers pledged to obey laws for the betterment of the colony
Help from Native Americans Squanto and Samoset Peace and prosperity
Massachusetts Everyone wants to leave Thomas Hooker- Connecticut Roger Williams- Rhode Island
Fixing My Inaccuracy Over 500 treaties have formally been signed with American Indian Tribes Over 500 have been broken, changed, or nullified illegally
Middle Colonies New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware
New York New York is pretty cool We steal it from the Dutch We’re cooler than the Dutch so it’s pretty easy Lower taxes, representative government
Pennsylvania William Penn and the Quakers Pacifism William Penn calls in a favor with the king Philadelphia- City of brotherly Love
Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
Maryland Laws telling you what to grow Mason Dixon Line Pennsylvania/Maryland Act of Toleration- Be nice to the protestants even though we are catholic
Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Largest Rebellion in Virginia History William Bacon wants to expand into Native American Lands
The Carolina’s Trade and Aristocracy The “Birth” of the Southern Gentlemen
Georgia Safe place for poor and the Debtors In England you would be thrown in Jail, in Georgia you become a slave for a few years and then you are free Barrier against the Spanish Religious Freedom
Slavery in the South Slaves Indentured Servants Bought and sold, all your life Indentured Servants You broke the law or had too large a debt, you either work in slavery for X amount of years or you go to prison
The Expansion of 4 Civilizations
Expansion Spain England France Native Americans South and West Think of all the towns in south Texas, NM, Arizona, Cali Spanish Missions England West Into the Ohio River Valley France North and West No Canada like French Canada Native Americans Pushed wherever Europeans aren’t