London Company settles

•Poor site

•Unskilled colonists

Capt. John Smith takes control

•Brought food

•Taught colonists to grow corn

•Introduces sweeter tobacco to export to England

•Marries Pocahontas

•Powhatan & colonists fight

•England cancels London Company’s charter

•Virginia becomes royal company

Colonists who paid own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land & 50 for each person they brought

Workers were needed for plantations

•Indentured servants

•African slaves

Group of indentured servants attack Indians (led by N. Bacon)

Bacon & followers attack JamestownEffects:

•difficult to make peace with Indians

•fear of uprising of indent. servants led to more slavery

Protestant group that wanted to purify the Church of England

Most extreme group – SEPARATISTS (wanted to separate from Church of Eng.)

English leaders punish Separatists

One group was PILGRIMS

Pilgrims leave Eng. to escape persecution

Pilgrims go to Netherlands

•Allowed to practice own religion

•Children learn Dutch

•Feared they would forget culture/ traditions

•Disappointed by job opportunities

Move to Virginia

The Mayflower

William Bradford

Mayflower Compact - rules to govern selves

(Samoset, Squanto)

•Indians teach & help

•Pilgrims invite Indians to celebrate harvest

1st Thanksgiving

•Families common & center of life

•Women had more legal rights than in England

The New England Colonies

• The Massachusetts Bay Colony– dissenters-people who disagree with

official opinions.

• General Court– helped to run colony– founded Harvard in 1636 with the help of John

Harvard

Dissent in Massachusetts

• Roger Williams– disagreed with leadership– criticized the General Court for taking

land from the Indians without paying them.

– leaders made him leave– settled Providence• Anne Hutchinson– angered Puritan leaders by publicly discussing

religious ideas that were considered radical.

• Toleration Act of 1649– ease growing tensions between

Catholics and Protestants

•No towns or churches for a long time

People who paid their way received land grants.

Dutch Colony—New Netherland

later became an English Colony

1664

•diverse population of Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and Scots

•Founded because William Penn wanted a safe place for Quakers

•Government-protect against abuse of power

Granted charter by

King Charles I

•1733 -King George II granted a charter to James

Oglethorpe

•Outlawed slavery and limited land grants to 500 acres

•Once part of Pennsylvania 1682-1776

•Originally settled by Swedish

•Became part of English colonies in 1664