1. First English Settlements

2. England plans colonies
merchants supported plan for colonies
charter- written contract giving certain rights to persons or groups

3. Jamestown founded in 1607 charter from the Virginia Company
hoped to make money

4. Difficult at first because…
swampy land
poor water
Natives
greed for gold
low on food (2/3 starved)
no trade
cold winter

5. Jamestown succeeds adapted to land tobacco brought in money
1619: brought slaves to help work
House of Burgesses (Representatives) established

6. House of Burgesses first representative assembly in America
elected reps met once a year to make laws

7. Plymouth *Separatists
1620
wanted to escape religious persecution in England and worship as they pleased (Pilgrims)

8. Mayflower
ship that brought them to America

9. Mayflower Compact
document signed aboard the Mayflower to ensure order in the colonies

10. Difficult at first because…
starving
disease
Natives
no trade, originally
women were chattel (little freedom)

11. Plymouth succeeds Native Americans help them to raise crops
First Thanksgiving
land ownership
fishing/whaling,
and hunting

12. Famous People of the English American Colonies
Captain John Smith – established 1st permanent colony in Jamestown, VA
befriended Pocahontas & Powhatan Chief
William Penn – Quaker; founded Pennsylvania
Roger Williams – created Rhode Island colony; practiced religious tolerance & dealing fair with Natives; Religious Leader
Anne Hutchinson – pioneer settler of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, & New Netherlands; because she believed you could directly talk to God, they banned her from the colony; Religious Leader
John Winthrop – led Puritans to the New World, joined Massachusetts Bay Colony; Religious Leader

13. People in the New World
Property Owners – well off; men given property by the governor (person in charge of the colony)
African Americans – slaves; 1st brought here by the Dutch
women – inferior; were not men’s equal
Native Americans – “savages”; not real people
Indentured Servants – in exchange for being brought to the new world, a person would work their fee off (approximately 5 years); free people, not slaves