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B R I TA I N A N D I T S C O LO N I E S
CHAPTER 2
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
• James I• The Virginia Company• Differences between English and Spanish
colonization attempts
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
• The Virginia Colony• Jamestown settlement• Chief Powhatan• John Smith • Reinforcement attempts• Discovery of tobacco as revenue
Early Virginia and Maryland
America, 8th EditionCopyright © 2010 W.W. Norton & Company
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
• The Virginia Colony• John Rolfe and Pocahontas• Later growth as a colony
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
• The Virginia Colony• Governor William Berkeley • Nathaniel Bacon• Bacon’s Rebellion
BURNING OF JAMESTOWN
The Burning of Jamestown by Howard Pyle, Illustration from1905 textbook.
GOVERNOR WILLIAM BERKELEY
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
• Maryland • Lord Baltimore• First proprietary colony• Governmental system
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
• Differences between New England and the Chesapeake colonies• Plymouth Colony• William Bradford• The Mayflower Compact • Squanto
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
• Massachusetts Bay Colony • The Puritans• John Winthrop• Trading company as government
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
• Rhode Island• Creation• Roger Williams• Anne Hutchinson
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
• Connecticut• Thomas Hooker• Fundamental Orders of Commonwealth• New Haven
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
• New Hampshire and Maine• Sir Ferdinando Gorges • Captain John Mason• Land issues
INDIANS IN NEW ENGLAND
• Anglo-Indian relations in New England• The New England Indians• The Pequot War
SETTLING THE CAROLINAS
• Restoration and new colonies• North Carolina• South Carolina
SETTLING THE CAROLINAS
• Southern Indian trade
SETTLING THE MIDDLE COLONIES AND GEORGIA
• New Netherland becomes New York• Judaism in North America• The Iroquois League
SETTLING THE MIDDLE COLONIES AND GEORGIA
• New Jersey• Pennsylvania and Delaware• Georgia