Founding of the 13 Original Colonies · Founding of the 13 Original Colonies 1607 -Virginia Company...
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Founding of the 13 Original Colonies
� 1607 - Virginia Company of London � To Chesapeake Bay –Jamestown
� For trade and profit and England’s 1st permanent American colony
� Difficult beginning years� Developed high grade tobacco=flourished� Slave Labor
� CreatedHouse of Burgesses for more local control - 1st
representative assembly
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� Pilgrims received a charter to settle in America
� Pilgrims -Separatists who left for religious freedom
� Mayflower went off course
& landed in Plymouth, MA
� Mayflower Compact –Promised to obey the laws passed “for the general good of the colony”
� Wrote 1st document setting up self-government in America
In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are [listed below], the
loyal subjects of our dread sovereign (authority) Lord, King James, by
the grace of God…
Having [started], for the glory of God, and advancement of the
Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant
the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do…in the presence
of God, and one of another, [promise] and combine our selves
together into a civil body politic (government), for our better ordering
and preservation and furtherance of the ends [mentioned above]; and
by virtue hereof to enact (pass), constitute, and frame such just and
equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to
time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general
good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and
obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our
names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November [New Style, November
21], in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of
England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-
fourth. Anno Domini 1620.
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� 1623 settled inPortsmouth� Founded by fisherman fortrade and fishing
� 1638 - John Wheelwright
� Led group of nonconformistPuritans from MA to Exeter, NH for religious freedom
� Drew up Exeter Compact-based on Mayflower Compact (self government)
� 1624 – Dutch West India Company
� New Amsterdam
� German, Swedish, Dutch, & Finnish settlers
� Excellent trade using the Hudson River and a good harbor
� English wanted it & attacked in 1664
� Renamed it New York
� Gift to the Duke of York
� Threat to English trade and settlements
� Dutch surrendered
� Proprietary/Royal Colony
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� Puritans - Protestants who wanted to reform (purify) The Church of England
� Received a royal charter to leave for religious freedom to practice their religion from persecution
� Create a society based on the Bible
� Town meetings were their democratic government � Only white male church members could vote
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� Lord Baltimore - dreamed of safe place for Catholics
� 1632 –Main settlement of Baltimore (port city)
� Proprietary colony north of Virginia
� Passed Toleration Act -Religious Freedom and toleration
� Planted tobacco & corn
� Maryland law - “every person planting tobacco shall tend 2 acres of corn”