1. Winthrop and the Puritans
Jamestown 6
Pilgrims
Winthrop and the Puritans
The Mayflower Compact designed a democratic government for the Pilgrims
Jamestown served as the destination for the 1st indentured servants
Jamestown became the first English colony in 1607
John Smith set up a system of labor to led Jamestown.
Pocahontas helped the colony to survive in its first few years.
The Jamestown colony saw the first slaves imported around 1620
John Winthrop was the Governor of the Puritan Colony
The 1st Thanksgiving
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2. Williams and Hutchinson 7
Toleration Act
Penn and the Quakers
Quaker William Penn tried to negotiate with Indians over colonial lands.
Maryland’s Toleration Act guaranteed freedom of religion
Puritan dissenters like Roger Williams left the colony.
The Southern and Middle Colonies were based on agriculture such as rice, indigo, and tobacco.
George Calvert established the colony of Maryland for Catholics
Dutch traders has a better relationship with local Indians of the NY area
A Puritan Woman

3. Philosophy and Religion
Colonial Trade 8
Three Regions
Philosophy and Religion
Slaves represented one part of the Triangular Trade
Great Awakenings preacher Jonathon Edwards
Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke explored the rights of man
Colonial Settlement in 1750
Colonial Women mainly worked in the home and have very few legal rights.
Witchcraft Trials in Salem show the mistrust in society for diversity.
Tobacco exporting became the colonies first industry
Colonial Plantation Life

4. French and Indian War 9 Boston Massacre Colonial Protests
Revolutionary Leader Samuel Adams helped lead groups like the Sons of Liberty
Cartoon reflecting the colonial attitude toward the Stamp Act
Tarring and Feathering a Stamp Act Agent
Poster advertising a colonial boycott
European Colonies before French and Indian War
Boston lawyer John Adams also served to lead colonial protests of British policies.
British Redcoats were stationed in the colonies to maintain order
Boston Massacre in 1770

5. Calls for Independence 10
Common Sense
King George III
Revolution begins with shots fired on the commons of Lexington, Massachusetts
Paul Revere rides to warn residents that “the British are coming”
George Washington is chosen as military commander.
“Common Sense” argues for independence
Battle of Bunker Hill helped prove the colonist’s intentions.
British regular “Redcoat” soldiers are sent in larger numbers
Thomas Paine wrote the popular pamphlet “Common Sense”
King George III of England

6. July 4th, 1776 Draft of the Declaration 11 Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence
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Influence of John Locke
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Enlightenment philosophers influenced many of Jefferson’s idea included in the Declaration
Committee writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration was a document edited several times to get it to today’s form.
July 4th,
1776
The Declaration listed many reasons why the colonies had to declare their independence.
John Hancock’s famous large signature on the Declaration
Liberty Bell from Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Colonies declare themselves Independent

7. Colonial Army v British Army
Early Years of the War 12
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Colonial Army v British Army
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End of the War, 1781
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The British would control most of the major colonial cities throughout the war.
Charles Cornwallis eventually surrendered to Washington at Yorktown
Washington leads his men across the Delaware R. to battle at Trenton
Washington and his men at Valley Forge
Washington had several very capable Generals such as Nathaniel Greene
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of many foreign volunteers to help.
The British surrender at Yorktown to end the war in 1781
“Molly Pitcher” at the Battle of Monmouth

8. Land Ordinance 13 Northwest Ordinance Shay’s Rebellion
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Northwest Ordinance
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Shay’s Rebellion
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United States territory after the Revolutionary War
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 organized the process of adding states and also forbid the institution of slavery in these territories
Sample survey of territories under the Land Ordinance of 1785
Shay’s Rebellion in Massachusetts showed the weakness of the Articles