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