Section Two Founding of the British Colonies 1607
Section Two Founding of the British Colonies 1607 -1733 1
British Motivation To Find a Northwest Passage Religious rivalry vs. 2 Catholic Spain
“Sea Dogs” Hawkins Plunder Spanish Treasure Galleons Drake Elizabeth I Secret approval of the Queen 3
Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588 4
Early British Colonial Failures *Three failed attempts Sir Walter Raleigh 5
Roanoke Island 6
British Colonial Economic Motivation • Surplus Capital • Mercantilism • New Markets • Land Ownership 7
Religious Persecution 8
= Sin equals Treason 9
Social & Political Motives • Enclosure Movement • Adventure • Political Freedom • Military Outposts 10
King James I 11
Virginia Company 1606 12
Jamestown • 1607 • Three Ships • 107 Colonists 13
Early Problems • Poor location • Lack of incentive • Environmental ignorance • Wasted efforts (gold, NW passage) • Hostile tribes 14
John Rolfe 1612 Governor with Assembly 1619 Joint-Stock; Out in 1616 Important Events in Early Virginia 15 Royal Colony 1624
Virginia after 1624 16
Bacon’s Rebellion -- 1676 Nathaniel Bacon vs. Gov. Berkely Frontier Colonists vs. Wealthy Planters 17
Virginia Company 1606 18
Establishment of the New England Colonies 19
1620 -- Mayflower just off Cape Cod Plymouth colony 20
Mayflower “Separatists” 21
1 st Gov; William Bradford Mayflower Compact -- Majority Rule 22
Massachusetts Bay Colony • Mass. Bay Company (fishing) 1629 • “Great Migration” puritans escape Charles I 1630 -1640 --- 25, 000 • Two house assembly • ‘Separation of Church and State’ 23
Gov. John Winthrop 1630 -1650 24
Rhode Island • Roger Williams • Providence 1636 • Charter in 1663 with Religious Tolerance • Secondary Colony 25
Connecticut • Thomas Hooker 1639 • “Fundamental Orders” 26
New England Confederation 1643 In response to three threats • Native New England Tribes • Dutch to the South. West • French to the North 27
Maryland Sir George Calvert Refuge for British Catholics 28
St. Mary’s - 1634 • Proprietary Colony • 1649 - Toleration Act 29
Carolina 1700 -Rice plantations 1663 - Grant from Charles II 1670 - Charles Towne 1729 - Separation of North and South 30
Grant 1732 -- Savannah 1733 Georgia • Buffer between Carolina and Spanish Florida • Refuge for Debtors • Haven for European Protestants • Convert the Native Tribes 31
New York RIP Charles II Duke of York New Jersey proprietary grant to J. Berkeley royal in 1702 32
Pennsylvania William Penn 33
“The West Indies” 34
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