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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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?