1. Early American Colonies
Chapter 3
Early American Colonies

2. Colonizing America John Smith and Pocahontas John Rolfe and Tobacco
The Beginning of Self Governing

3. Jamestown goes belly up
Financial troubles hit hard
King James cancels the charter and makes it a royal colony

4. Virginia House of Burgesses
The first representative government in America
1619

5. Story Time with Mr. Beat

6. New England Colonies New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut
Rhode Island

7. New England Colonies Religious Freedom Anglican Church
Puritans and Pilgrims

8. 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

9. Help from Native Americans
Squanto and Samoset
Peace and prosperity

10. Massachusetts Everyone wants to leave Thomas Hooker- Connecticut
Roger Williams- Rhode Island

11. Fixing My Inaccuracy
Over 500 treaties have formally been signed with American Indian Tribes
Over 500 have been broken, changed, or nullified illegally

12. Middle Colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

13. 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

14. Pennsylvania William Penn and the Quakers Pacifism
William Penn calls in a favor with the king
Philadelphia- City of brotherly Love

15. Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

16. 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

17. Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Largest Rebellion in Virginia History
William Bacon wants to expand into Native American Lands

18. The Carolina’s Trade and Aristocracy
The “Birth” of the Southern Gentlemen

19. 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

20. 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

21. The Expansion of 4 Civilizations

22. 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