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The Columbian Exchange
The meeting of New World and European world created the Columbian exchange Plants, animals, spices, fruits and tobacco were exchanged between Europe, Africa and the New World.
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Colonial Era Timeline 1499 to 1763
1565 The first permanent European colony in North America is founded at St. Augustine (Florida) by the Spanish.
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Home work Read txt book pg.38-48 Define the following terms
1.Joint Stock Company 2. Headright system 3.Indentured servant 4. Royal colony Q what was the result of Jamestown’s ‘tobacco economy?
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Royal Colonial settlements
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh lands on Roanoke Island and names the surrounding area Virginia, in honor of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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First settlements After multiple attempts, Roanoke Colony is established. By 1590 the settlers of this colony had made a strange disappearance. The first English child, Virginia Dare is born in Roanoke, August 18th. The London Company sponsors a colonizing expedition to Virginia.
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Jamestown 1607 Joint stock company-English investors pool their $$ hoping Jamestown would make a profit. Indentured Servants- 1619-African slaves
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Jamestown Jamestown is founded in Virginia by the colonists of the London Company. By the end of the year, starvation and disease reduce the original 105 settlers to just 32 survivors. Capt. John Smith is captured by Native American Chief Powhatan and saved from death by the chief's daughter, Pocahontas.
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Jamestown cont Captain John Smith, a leader of Jamestown, led expeditions in Virginia. The next year he sailed north to explore the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river. In 1614 he spent a summer on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, and mapped the coast south to Cape Cod. He called the area New England. In January, 110 additional colonists arrive at Jamestown. In December, the first items of export trade are sent from Jamestown back to England and include lumber and iron ore.
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1607 Jamestown
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John Smith Pocahontas
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For Profit Colonies Crown is broke
1601 England’s King James I Grants a Charter to the Virginia Company. A Joint stock company. Jamestown April, “We want gold” Problems Powhatan Indians John Smith
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Finally a profit in Jamestown 1619
John Rolfe = tobacco “we need workers” 1618 Headright system is introduced by the Virginia Company. Indentured servants
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Beginning of self government
July 30, Jamestown =House of Burgesses- “our intente is to establish one equall and uniforme kinde of government over all Virginia &c.” Mayflower Compact Elected Government
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House of Burgesses 1619 Jamestown 1619-
Burgess = the privileges of a land owning citizen. Landowning males made decisions on how to best manage Jamestown and the outer area of growing tobacco farms. Early form of representative Democracy
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How was Elected govt influenced in Jamestown? 13 Colonies?
Jamestown elected govt was influenced by: Enlightenment Glorious revolution-Parliament had the real power English Bill of Rights 1689 These events will influence the American Revolution & Constitution
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What was the first elected representative body in colonial America?
House of Burgesses 1619 Raise taxes Make laws Virginia governor could veto any legislation passed.
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Mayflower Compact Plymouth Colony 1620-Religious Separatists- known today as Pilgrims fled England due to Religious persecution. Plymouth Colony- Mayflower the men on the ship sign the Mayflower Compact 1630- Massachusetts Bay Colony = Boston, Mass= self government = laws are both religious & societal
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1676 Causes of Bacon’s rebellion Virginia
These Indians are a problem Wealthy elites ignore lower class farmers in the western part of the colony. Ex indentured servants are part of this lower class 1. unfair taxation 2. political favoritism 3. lower class live on the frontier & Indians are a problem Governor says “I will not provide troops.” 1676 Nathaniel Bacon creates an army to fight the Indians on Virginia’s frontier.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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Was Bacon’s rebellion a success?
Yes & NO Did the following: Governor is called back to England. Wealthy vs. poor citizens “former indentured vs. planter class.” frontier vs. Jamestown.” Better representation heading towards a system of self government a.k.a representative democracy
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Massachusetts Colony Massachusetts Bay company 1620
How does the Protestant reformation in England effect settlement in colonial America? Some of the Pilgrims were hard core Puritan SEPERATISTS who practiced Calvinism. Mayflower Compact December, 1620 John Winthrop writes the Mayflower compact = self government
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"In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of
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God of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
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Pilgrims land in Provincetown
December 16, men, women & children arrive on the Mayflower in present day Rhode Island—not Plymouth rock. March 1621 starvation-Famine, disease Squanto spoke English Chief Massasoit Thanksgiving..? k-20k Puritans arrive for New England
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1634 Maryland a Catholic colony
1636 Roger Williams --a religious zealot who demands separation of church & state ( the Anglican church of England is controlled by the Monarch) & respects Indians-- is kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston by Gov. Winthrop. Williams goes to Providence, Rhode Island in 1643 and creates a government based on complete Religious freedom. Dies in 1683 fighting Indians in King Philips war.
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King Philips War 1676 why did the English-Puritans start this war against the descendants of Massasoit? King Philip a.k.a. Metacom was the son of Massasoit What were the effects of these Indian wars? Nat Bacon’s rebellion, King Philips war demonstrate that the colonists can & will take matters into their own hands. The stage is set for revolution 100 years later in 1776
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Significance of Mayflower Compact
To frame “just and equal laws…for the good of the Colony.” The significance of Bacon’e rebellion
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The Dutch in New Netherland = NY
Up the Hudson river 1621 Dutch West India Company to colonize New Netherland. 1625 Manhattan is a Dutch port and city 1664 England takes New Amsterdam from the Dutch & rename it New York after the….?
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13 original colonies The original thirteen colonies were Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.
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