1. Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated) Settlement of Virginia Virginia Company Joint-Stock Company Jamestown John Smith John Rolfe Tobacco “starving time” House of Burgesses indentured servants headright system

2. 3 Types of British Colonies 1. Royal Colonies – owned by the king 2. Proprietary – (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware) land grants from the British gov’t. Individuals were awarded huge tracts of land to supervise & govern in return for political/financial favors. These colonial governors reported directly to the king

3. 3. Self-governing – (Rhode Island, Connecticut) king granted a charter to a joint-stock company; company set up its own government independent of the crown; king could revoke the colonial charter and convert to a royal colony

4. Separatists vs Non-Separatists

5. Separatists (Pilgrims) vs. Non- Separatists (Puritans)

6. Learning Target Compare the Separatist and Non-Separatist colonies that developed in British North American. How did New England and the Chesapeake region evolve into two distinct societies while both were settled largely by people of English origin? (DBQ)

7.  Puritans who believed only “visible saints” [those who could demonstrate in front of their fellow Puritans their elect status] should be admitted to church membership.  Because the Church of England enrolled all the king’s subjects, Separatists felt they had to share churches with the “damned.”  Therefore, they believed in a total break from the Church of England. Separatists Beliefs:

8. Calvinism  Institutes of the Christian Religion  Predestination. Good works could not save those predestined for hell. No one could be certain of their spiritual status. Gnawing doubts led to constantly seeking signs of “conversion.” Puritans:  Want to totally reform [purify] the Church of England.  Grew impatient with the slow process of Protestant Reformation back in England.

9. What was a Separatist? Had left the Church of England Fled to the Netherlands in 1608 Returned to England 12 years later to make the journey to the new world Were searching for political freedoms (not just religious freedom)

10. Separatists Pilgrims 1620 Virginia Company of London Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts Thomas Weston, London merchant Mayflower 120 people (24 families) Expedition Leaders & ½ of those on the Mayflower were Separatists

11. Promise to Weston Send lumber, furs, fish back to London for 7 years Afterwards the Pilgrims would own the land

12. Too Far North Pilgrims landed further north than their charter. No legal right to be there – all adult males (including the non-Separatists) signed the...

14. The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620 Written and signed before the Pilgrims disembarked from the ship. Not a constitution, but an agreement to form a crude govt. and submit to majority rule.  Signed by 41 adult males. Led to adult male settlers meeting in assemblies to make laws in town meetings.

15. New England Primer [1689]

16. The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620

17. Statistics ½ died within 4 months None decided to leave in 1621 when the Mayflower sailed back Plymouth stayed small and economically unimportant. 1691  only 7,000 people Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony Squanto & Samoset – Thanksgiving –Page 49: 3 lasting importance of relationship with Native Americans

18. William Bradford Self-taught scholar. Chosen governor of Plymouth 30 times in yearly elections. Worried about settlements of non-Puritans springing up nearby and corrupting Puritan society.

19. September 3 rd Class Activity Analyze the Mayflower Compact Answer Questions 1-6 Questions 5 & 6 require you to answer in paragraph form.

20. September 4th

21. Separatists & Non-Separatists What do they have in common? –Attracted landowning farm families of modest means (not poor but not wealthy) –Committed to Calvinism (predestination)

22. Non-Separatists  Wanted to escape attacks by conservatives in the Church of England.  They didn’t want to leave the Church, just its “impurities.” “Great Migration” of the 1630s  Turmoil in England [leading to the English Civil War] sent about 70,000 Puritans to America.  Not all Puritans  20,000 came to MA.

23. NON-SEPARATISTS 1628 Massachusetts Bay Company 1630: 11 ships w/ 700 passengers June 1630: In Boston 1 st winter: 30% die Spring 1631: 10% went home Mid 1631: 1300 new settlers arrive

24. City Upon A Hill John Winthrop Governor “A Model of Christian Charity” Outlines the colony’s utopian goals.

25. Patriarchy Authoritarian male father figures controlled each household. Patriarchal ministers and magistrates controlled church congregations and household patriarchs.

26. Class Activity Analyze “City Upon a Hill” sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” You may answer on the worksheet or your own paper. HW – addresses whether the Puritans were successful.