Integrity Doing the right thing at the right

Integrity • Doing the right thing at the right time even when no one is looking.

Chapter 3 Colonial America

Section 1: Early English Settlements • The Lost Colony of Roanoke • Sir Walter Raleigh • Roanoke Island, 1585 • Returned Home • Under Raleigh, sent White to • • • try to settle again White returned to England for supplies When returned, colony was gone. England was a failure to settle North America.

• Jamestown Settlement; 1607 • Settled by the Virginia • • • Company Economic prosperity Settled in Chesapeake Bay Name Jamestown in honor of King. John Smith saves the colony by making all work Tobacco saves Jamestown

§ Magna Carta history § Right to create local laws for community ØJamestown’s Representative Government

Slavery in America • First Africans • Brought over to be • • servants by Dutch starting in 1619 Originally given freedom after set amount time served 1661: Need for workers brought the institution of slavery.

New England Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire New Jersey

Protestant Reformation • Christian Faith • Catholic-Religion • Martin Luther protest Catholic church • People break away from Catholic church and form new church

Pilgrims • Separatists • Wanted to separate • • • from the Church of England (Anglican) and start new church 1620 left for the New World Settled in Plymouth Mayflower Compact: promised to obey English Law.

• Mayflower Compact Formal • Formal document signed • • by Mayflower passengers Promised to obey English law Promised their loyalty to the King

• Puritans • 1630 • Protestants that wanted to • • reform the Anglican Church Wanted to Purify the church Hated by English Anglicans Persecuted for their beliefs Settled in and around Boston (Massachusetts Bay Colony)

• Native Americans • Pilgrims suffer and many • • die from hunger and disease. Indians helped by teaching Pilgrims to plant corn, beans, pumpkins. Indians showed Pilgrims how to hunt and fish

• Massachusetts Bay Company: Puritans • 1628: Puritans • Puritans wanted to change • • the church Persecuted in England Wanted to create a new society in America Royal Charter from England Leader: John Winthrope Settled in what is today Boston area Little tolerance of other religions. Poor farming: rocky soil

• Connecticut • Settled in 1636 • Leader: Thomas Hooker • Wanted to separate from • • Puritans because did not like their government. Better farming area First written constitution in America: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Rhode Island • Roger Williams, a minister settled by Roger • He believed church Williams in 1644 and state should be separate and that it was wrong for colonist to take Native American land • Banished from Massachusetts • Allowed Religious Tolerance

Religious Tolerance • What does this mean?

• Anne Hutchinson • A Puritan woman that questioned the church and ministers teaching • Banished • Went to Rhode Island

• Native Americans • Conflict with Colonist • As population of colonist • • increased, land was taken away from Native Americans Population of Native Americans decreased by 90% in New England after 75 years By 1637, Indian wars occurred (King Phillip war, 1670’s) • Indians lost more land.

Puritan Influence Decline • By 1670’s the new generation of New Englanders lost some of their parent’s religious fervor • Focus now on building and farming new land • Money was now the focus over religion. • Eventually Puritan beliefs lead to the Salem Witch trails.