European Settlements European Settlements all along eastern Coast
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European Settlements -European Settlements- all along eastern Coast of America *Colony- group of people in one place & ruled by a parent country elsewhere -Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565 SW, Florida, Texas -French– Canada, Mississippi R. -English—East Coast Roanoke, NC Sir Walter Raleigh= 1 st attempt (all men) “Lost Colony”= 2 nd Attempt John White returned 13 yrs later to find “Croaton” carved in a tree
Virginia Company English Settlements: -Joint Stock Company Jamestown, 1607 (est. by merchants) a town to make $ John Smith- granted a charter to set up Gov’t “Starving Time” -more colonists -1 st democratic gov’t House of Burgesses-— First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy
st 1 Jamestown. Permanent English Colony § House of Burgesses-— 1619 First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy § It had little power, but it marked the beginning of self-gov’t in Colonial America
Jamestown- VA GEOGRAPHY!- Important Key -tobacco as a cash crop John Rolfe- introduced tobacco Pocahontas- daughter of chief Powhatan -headright system 50 acres to each new colonistgiven to settlers willing to cross the Atlantic and Help populate America -indentured servants- colonist paid the way to American 4 poor -first slaves imported
Native American Religion § What did the N. A. worship? § What did they respect? § What was the white man doing to their religion?
First Rebellion -Indian dispute on the frontier? (Colonist wanted more land) -Colonists ask for protection from Virginia Gov’t, but were denied -Bacon’s Rebellion -Nathaniel Bacon led the frontier colonists in a rebellion against the Virginia gov’t -showed signs of discontent with leadership – they would not be restricted by Gov’t Policy
Please Put an X over the next box “Religious Refugees”
Pilgrims -Pilgrims also called Separatists because they wanted to practice their own religion -Plymouth Massachusetts-- 1620 -Mayflower Compact (contract) -set up direct democracy for the colony -leads to traditions of town meetings -colony struggled but received Indian help to grow crops Thanksgiving---Squanto -William Bradford “Of Plymouth Plantation”
Puritans -wanted to rid the English church of Catholic traditions- wanted to purify/ reform Anglican Church -Pilgrims on a religious journey -John Winthrop -”City on a Hill”- sermon be an example to the world -settled in Massachusetts (Formed Mass) -strong connection between church and state -strict adherence to Puritan rules -no religious tolerance (Witch trials)
Massachusetts Because of tight community controls some individuals began to offer dissenting opinions -Roger Williams -Believed in the Separation of Church and State and was exiled from the colony and founded Providence R. I. -Anne Hutchinson Her belief in individual worship challenged Puritan leaders and she was banished in a famous trial and fled to R. I.
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