US history, 3rd class

17th century colonies & settlers in North America

(Caribbean next week)

announcements

• I apologize – I was wrong. This class starts at 10:10.

• Please acquire a map of the US or North America – essential!

• Please turn in paper # 1, if you have not done so.

Palace of the Governors (1610)Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

St. Lawrence River, New France

Quebec & Sault St. Marie, New France, 17th c

Montreal, New France, 17th c.

New Amsterdam (aka New York)

Chesapeake Bay colonies

• Virginia Company received a royal charter & founded Jamestown. 1607, 1st permanent English settlement.

• 1632, proprietary colony founded by the Calverts, the Lords Baltimore, Catholics, now Maryland.

Jamestown (Virginia)

St. Mary’s, Maryland

Chesapeake colonies• In addition to subsistence crops, colonists

primarily grew a cash-producing crop for export: tobacco.

• different forms of government & settlement in VA & MD, but

common geography & climate created similar economies.

who settled Chesapeake (Maryland & Virginia colonies)?

• ¾ of all English migrants to the Chesapeake came as indentured servants.

• In 17th c, slavery was more expensive & thus less common.

Massachusetts – religious dissenters from the Church of England

• Pilgrims – separate, form own societies.

• Puritans – purify the church.

• Both came in families to settle permanently.

Plymouth Plantation, 1620

• Mayflower (ship)• Pilgrims• Backed by Virginia

Company

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629

• Puritans• Boston• Royal charter

all colonies – relations w Indians

• Indians attempted to use colonists to further their own goals, often in conflicts with other indigenous peoples.

• Indians typically ensured survival of 1st colonists. • Diseases from Europe ravaged Indian

populations.• Warfare between Indians & colonists in 17th

century in Spanish & English, but not French, colonies. French primarily traded w Indians.

Unique characteristics of British colonies

• Families & permanent settlement.• Wanted land from Indians for more settlers.• Less motivated by Christianizing the Native

people than Catholic Spain & France.• British Civil War, Puritan Commonwealth,

execution of king, restoration of monarchy.• Communities excluded Indians, as compared

to French & Spanish, which included Indians.

Assignment for next week

• Peruse a web site on the history of one of the following:(last name A – F) Jamestown, Virginia(last name G – P) Plimouth Plantation, Mass.(last name R – Z) St, Mary’s City, Maryland

Use a state or national park or a Smithsonian web site. Do not rely on Wikipedia!

What did you learn that interested you?