1. American Colonies Emerge
Chapter 2
American Colonies Emerge

2. I.) Spain's Empire

3. Hernándo Cortés: God? Led conquistadors through Mexico
Took gold / silver from Montezuma (Aztec leader)
Destroyed Aztecs- War & Disease
Created New Spain

4. Spanish Rule… Took history lesson from Moorish invasion
Lived among, married natives
Mestizos
Worked natives  Encomiendas

5. Southwest, Florida and Popé’s Rebellion
Florida: Juan Ponce de León
Colonized New Mexico 1550s (present day Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Popé: 1680 Religious leader leads rebellion against Spain
Left Spain out of control in the region
Lead to eventual downfall in the Americas

6. II.) English Settlements
Jamestown 1607:
Joint-Stock Company (Virginia)
Headed by John Smith
Disaster Strikes:
Looking for Gold (Uh, hello!?!)
150 arrivesix weeks later only 38
Colonized on swampy land

7. 1609--Jamestown Getting Better
Tobacco is found (John Rolfe)
People needed
Headright System
Indentured Servants
1619: First African slaves (20) begin to show

8. EXTREME MAKEOVER Hostilities with the Locals (Powhatans)
English different than Spaniards
Demand offerings from natives
English get beat down
Jamestown becomes Royal Colony

9. Does the above sound familiar???
The Poor Rise Up
Felt they were not fairly represented in Gov’t
Nathaniel Bacon fights natives & wealthy English
Bacon declares poor have no rights, taxed too much
Does the above sound familiar???

10. III.) Puritan New England
Believed Anglican Church was too Catholic
Wanted to purify Anglican Church
Faith, Prayer, hard work, study of Bible
Pilgrim??? (separatists)
Puritan
Believed “no hope” for Anglican Church
Left for America in 1620 Plymouth Colony (2nd)

11. Puritans Reach Massachusetts (1630)
Massachusetts Bay Colony (John Winthrop)
Boston was port city
Incorporates Plymouth Colony

13. Puritan Laws and Family Could not: Family
Drink, swear, be lazy, steal, kill, etc.
Family
Children must behave
No domestic disputes

14. “Forced Religion Stinks in the Nostrils of God!”
Puritan Rebels with a Cause
Roger Williams:
“Forced Religion Stinks in the Nostrils of God!”
Worship how one sees fit
Natives should be treated w/ more respect
Fled to Providence  Founded Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Believed one could find God without Church or Ministers
Banished to Rhode Island

15. Pequot War & King Philip’s War (Metacom)
Pequot War (1637): English show destruction
King Philip’s War (1675): Ended the reign of Native Americans in Northeast

16. III.) Middle Colonies New Netherland The Dutch Very Diverse
More interested with trading than w/ fighting

17. Quakers Settle Pennsylvania Quaker???
Pacifists
Anyone could speak at church “meetings”
No ranks
William Penn/Quakers settles Pennsylvania colony
Helped found Philadelphia “City of Brotherly Love”
Good relations with Natives
Trade
Courts
Land