1. Colonization of North America
AIM: How was the first English settlement founded?

2. “E Pluribus Unum”: Out of Many, One

3. First English Attempts at Colonization
Sir Humphrey Gilbert – 1578
Sir Walter Raleigh

4. II. Reasons for English Settlement
Depression of woolen industry in England
Population explosion
Archbishop Laud persecution of Puritans (Separatists)
Other Groups Persecuted: Hugenots, Mennonites, Irish
Defeat of Spanish Armada
Joint Stock Company provides financial support through PRIVATE individual investment

5. Discourse on Western Planting, Richard Hakluyt (1584)
Chance to empty “Debtors” Prisons filled with able men
Chance to spread Christianity
Find N.W. passage to China

6. III. Jamestown

7. A. Problems Malaria ridden swamps “Starving Time”
No skilled agricultural force

8. John Smith
1. “He who shall not work, shall not eat.”

9. John Rolfe - 1612: “Cultivation of Tobacco”
House of Burgesses – 1619
1. “Seminary of Sedition” …King James 2. 3.

10. IV. 3 Kinds of Colonies Corporate Colony: Royal Colony:
C. Proprietary Colony

11. V. Maryland - 1634 Catholic Refuge Established by Lord Baltimore
Economy: tobacco
Impact: Land rush

12. Maryland Act of Toleration
That whatsoever person or persons within this Province and the Islands thereunto belonging shall from henceforth blaspheme God, that is Curse him, or deny our Saviour Jesus Christ to bee the son of God, or shall deny the holy Trinity the father son and holy Ghost, or the Godhead of any of the said Three persons of the Trinity or the Unity of the Godhead, or shall use or utter any reproachfull Speeches, words or language concerning the said Holy Trinity, or any of the said three persons thereof, shall be punished with death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her lands and goods to the Lord Proprietary and his heires.

13. Protected Catholics
Gave death penalty to Jews and atheists
Less toleration than did exist before – but temporarily protect Catholics.