1. 3-2: Early English Colonization, 1580s-1700s

2. Objectives
NAT 1.0 Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values, political institutions, and American identity.
CUL 1.0 Explain how religious groups and ideas have affected American society and political life.
WOR 1.0 Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.

3. Objectives
POL 1.0 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
WXT 1.0 Explain how different labor systems developed in North America and the United States, and explain their effects on workers’ lives and U.S. society.
WXT 2.0 Explain how patterns of exchange, markets, and private enterprise have developed, and analyze ways that governments have responded to economic issues.

4. Key Concept
The British colonies participated in political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encouraged both stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to Britain’s control.

6. Roanoke Island
1587—Sir Walter Raleigh
Outer Banks, NC
Lost Colony

7. Jamestown Virginia Company Early Problems Transition to Royal Colony
Joint-stock (shareholders)
Primary goal—profit
Early Problems
Search for gold
“Starving time”
John Smith and agricultural base (single men)
Transition to Royal Colony

8. Plymouth Pilgrims (Separatists) Mayflower Compact William Bradford
Crude form of government
Majority rule
William Bradford

9. Massachusetts Bay Puritans John Winthrop Great Migration
Religious restrictions
Economic recession
Small villages (families) surrounded by farmland
Church and state
Harvard and Yale
John Winthrop
“City Upon a Hill”
Strict code of morality

10. Early Political Institutions
Structure
Governor and upper house
Lower house
Examples
VA House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
New England Town Meetings

11. Chesapeake Colonies Tobacco Maryland Labor Shortages Bacon’s Rebellion
Catholic refuge
Act of Toleration
Labor Shortages
Indentured servants
Headright System
Slavery
Bacon’s Rebellion

12. Development of New England
Religious Intolerance (MA)
Anne Hutchinson
Banished for challenging Puritan gender roles
Roger Williams
Religious toleration
Separation of church and state
Founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut
Most liberal, free colonies

13. Development of New England
New Hampshire
Establishment as royal colony
Halfway Covenant
Loosening of control of the church
New England Confederation
Mutual military alliance
King Philip’s War
Dissolution