1. Colonial American Development

2. England Defeat of Spanish Armada (1588) Population increases
Joint-stock companies develop
Religious conflicts divide the nation
Weak monarchs, civil wars, and revolutions

3. Thirteen Colonies

4. The First English Attempts
Sir Walter Raleigh (1585)
Roanoke (1587)

5. Jamestown Virginia Company of London
Established in 1607 on mouth of Chesapeake Bay
John Smith
“he that will not work shall not eat”
”Starving Time” ( )
Powhatan
John Rolfe
Tobacco seeds to plantations

6. Who is this?

7. This is John Smith.

8. Pilgrims Separatists to Holland then head for Virginia
Mayflower takes Separatists and others to Jamestown but weather complicates matters
Settlers decide to remain and establish Plymouth (1620)

10. Plymouth Colony

11. New England Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritans (1630) Rhode Island
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill”
Rhode Island
Providence (1636)
Roger Williams
Portsmouth (1638)
Anne Hutchinson
Connecticut
Hartford (1637)
Thomas Hooker
New Haven (1638)
New Hampshire (1679)

12. Middle Colonies Development Economics New York New Jersey (1702)
New Amsterdam transferred to Duke of York in 1664
New Jersey (1702)
Pennsylvania settled by Quakers
Delaware (1702)
Economics
Develop wheat and corn farms
“Bread basket” of the colonies
Eventually into manufacturing and trade

13. Pennsylvania William Penn (1681)
Religious Society of Friends aka Quakers
Holy Experiment
Religious refuge
Liberal political ideals
Economic success
Frame of Government and Charter of Liberties

14. Mason-Dixon Line

15. Southern Colonies Maryland (1634) Virginia (1607) Carolinas (1663)
Lord Baltimore
Act of Toleration (1649)
Virginia (1607)
Carolinas (1663)
North Carolina (1729)
Tobacco
South Carolina (1729)
Rice and indigo
Georgia (1732)
James Oglethorpe

16. Virginia Jamestown (1607) Headright System House of Burgesses in 1619
50 acres to each paying immigrant or plantation owner who paid for immigrant
House of Burgesses in 1619
First legislative assembly in the colonies
Becomes royal colony in 1624
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Inequities between large landowners and western farmers
Nathanial Bacon vs. William Berkeley
"Here shoot me before God, fair mark shoot.”
Governor William Berkeley in response to Nathanial Bacon’s threat for demands.