1. EARLY COLONIES

3. WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?

5. HOW SUCKY IS MY LIFE? Poor
Indentured Servants (enslaved for 7-15 years)
Criminals (50,000 over the century)
1 in 6 colonists survived

6. Charter – Document that allows you to exist.
Proprietary: Granted by a king or queen to an individual or group who had full governing rights.
Royal: Governor appointed by the King and allowed to rule how the governor saw fit.
Corporate: Political power rested in the members of the company, who met in what was known as the General Court

7. Joint-Stock Company
Company funded and run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses.

8. Jamestown the Basics - Virginia
1607
Problems: Gold #1 priority, lack of skills, disease caused by location, relationship with Natives.
Leads to…

9. Starving Time: Only 38 of original 144 survive.
Food was in such short supply that graves were robbed and corpses eaten. One colonist murdered his wife and feasted on her flesh.
Near Abandonment: Actually boarded ships and were getting ready to leave.

10. Saved by John Smith and Tobacco
Rolfe Introduces tobacco
“Work or starve.” John Smith
John Rolfe and Pocahontas

11. DID POCAHONTAS REALLY SAVE JOHN SMITH? MYTH OR REALITY…

12. Massachusetts Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony
Two Settlements
Massachusetts Bay Colony
(Puritans)
Plymouth Colony (Separatists)

13. All the colonies practiced some form of self-government…………
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
41 Male passengers on the Mayflower formed into a “civil body politic”, signed a compact promising to write and obey "just and equal laws ... for the general good of the colony."
The compact brought an element of democracy to America and was an example of the practice of self-government in the colonies.
All the colonies practiced some form of self-government…………

14. Plymouth Colony Pilgrims
Separatists (separating from the Church of England; the bible is the authority)
Mayflower Compact (two groups of people on the ship not just Pilgrims)
Squanto
William Bradford

15. Massachusetts Bay Colony
“We must be knit together in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection….We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, journey together, labor and suffer together…. For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”
John Winthrop

16. Massachusetts Bay Colony cont…
Puritans (purify the Church of England)
Great Migration (from 1630 to 1643 went from 1,000 to 20,000). Very successful
1700 in Mass 93,00 living pretty comfortably
Dark Moment: Salem
Witch Trials (20 men and
women were executed in
1692) – National Geographic
Experience

17. Puritan Dissenters: Banished from Puritan society: Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson

18. Wars with Indian and Colonists
Pequot War (Movie)
Puritans (and Narragansetts) vs Pequots
Puritan attacked Pequot fort and set it on fire, shot anyone who tried to leave
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmucks
Metacom (son of Massasoit) as chief
Attack outlying Puritan towns guerilla style
1000 colonists kill, 3000 Indians, including Metacom. Head displayed for 25 years.

19. “The English who came first to this country were but a handful
of people, forlorn, poor and distressed. My father was then
sachem, he relieved their distresses in the most kind and
Hospitable manner. He gave them land to plant and build
upon….They flourished and increased. By various means they
got possession of a great part of this territory. But he still
remained their friend till he died. My elder
brother became a sachem. He was seized
and confined and thereby thrown into
illness and died. Soon after I became
sachem they disarmed all my people…
their land was taken. But (only) a small
part of the dominion (territory) of my
ancestors remains. I am determined not
to live (that is, not to simply keep on
living) until I have no country.”
Metacom, 1675

20. New England Colonies Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut
New Hampshire

21. Colonial Life--North COMMERCE: TRIANGLE TRADE
SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING
LAND
FARMING

22. Colonial Economies Mercantilism
Purpose of the colonies to benefit the power and wealth of Great Britain—Greater wealth means greater power.
Diagram

23. Slave Trade/Triangular Trade

27. Middle Colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

28. Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

29. Colonial Life--South FARMING LARGE FARMS--NO TOWNS
CHEAP LABOR WITH INDENTURED SERVANTS

30. Bacon’s Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon vs William Berkeley
Economic hardship
Settlers accidently attacked a group of friendly Indians
Marched on Jamestown to demand gov’t protect them
After months of chaos—burned Jamestown—100 killed
Results
DID NOT SUCCEED--WEALTHY IN CONTROL
INDENTURED SERVANTS DANGEROUS--USE SLAVES

31. Ever though the 4th church was burned during Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 the tower remained undamaged and intact. It has been preserved as part of this national park.