1. European Settlements
-European Settlements- all along eastern Coast of America
*Colony- group of people in one place & ruled by a parent country elsewhere
-Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565
SW, Florida, Texas
-French– Canada, Mississippi R.
-English—East Coast
Roanoke, NC
Sir Walter Raleigh= 1st attempt (all men)
“Lost Colony”= 2nd Attempt John White returned 13 yrs later to find “Croaton” carved in a tree

3. Virginia Company English Settlements: -Joint Stock Company
Jamestown, 1607 (est. by merchants) a town to make $
John Smith- granted a charter to
set up Gov’t “Starving Time”
-more colonists
-1st democratic gov’t
House of Burgesses-— First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy

4. Jamestown- 1st Permanent English Colony
House of Burgesses-—1619 First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy
It had little power, but it marked the beginning of self-gov’t in Colonial America

5. -tobacco as a cash crop Jamestown- VA GEOGRAPHY!- Important Key
John Rolfe- introduced tobacco
Pocahontas- daughter of chief
Powhatan
-headright system
50 acres to each new colonist- given to settlers willing to cross the Atlantic and Help populate America
-indentured servants- colonist paid the way to American 4 poor
-first slaves imported

6. Native American Religion
What did the N.A. worship?
What did they respect?
What was the white man doing to their religion?

7. First Rebellion -Indian dispute on the frontier?
(Colonist wanted more land)
-Colonists ask for protection from Virginia Gov’t, but were denied
-Bacon’s Rebellion
-Nathaniel Bacon led the frontier colonists in a rebellion against the Virginia gov’t
-showed signs of discontent with leadership – they would not be restricted by Gov’t Policy

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“Religious Refugees”

9. Pilgrims
-Pilgrims also called Separatists because they wanted to practice their own religion
-Plymouth Massachusetts
-Mayflower Compact (contract)
-set up direct democracy for the colony
-leads to traditions of town meetings
-colony struggled but received Indian help to grow crops
Thanksgiving---Squanto
-William Bradford
“Of Plymouth Plantation”

10. Puritans
-Puritans
-wanted to rid the English church of Catholic traditions- wanted to purify/ reform Anglican Church
-Pilgrims on a religious journey
-John Winthrop
-”City on a Hill”- sermon
be an example to the world
-settled in Massachusetts (Formed Mass)
-strong connection between church and state
-strict adherence to Puritan rules
-no religious tolerance (Witch trials)

11. Massachusetts
Because of tight community controls some individuals began to offer dissenting opinions
-Roger Williams
-Believed in the Separation of Church and State and was exiled from the colony and founded Providence R.I.
-Anne Hutchinson
Her belief in individual worship challenged Puritan leaders and she was banished in a famous trial and fled to R.I.

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