Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay Have sts make prediction

Jamestown Virginia Company- charter from James I (England) Joint-Stock Company- investors would buy stock and provide money to fund the company Economic Motive for Jamestown: An American settlement would provide raw materials that could not be grown/bought in England. After the Jamestown settlement made money, the investors were supposed to get a profit from their investment.

Jamestown English did not want to do manual labor due to the climate and amount of work Began offering people free land for 7 years of work Indentured Servants August 1609: 400 new settlers come to Jamestown However, with the profit from cash crops, indentured servants were not enough. Jamestown turned to the slave trade for more labor Make a prediction

Jamestown 1607: John Smith established trade with Powhatan Confederacy The Powhatan tribe introduced new crops to the English, including corn and tobacco Winter of 1609-1610: “Starving time” due to lack of planning and planting when settlers first arrived Survival before profit Plan A 1610: 6 hours of work per day required for all Plan B 1614: Private cultivation: 1 month of work, 2.5 barrels of corn, keep the rest

Pocahontas The real story The fake story As you watch: Take notes on real story. What did Disney get right and wrong? Why?

Jamestown Jamestown expanded into the colony of “Virginia” As the colony grew, Virginia gave male citizens the right to elect its own assembly First general assembly and representative democracy in the colonies. Established July 30, 1619 Governor 6 councilors 20 representatives (2 from each of 10 towns) called “burgesses” Becomes known as the House of Burgesses

Jamestown England begins offering Headrights: buy a share of a joint stock company or pay for passage…get 50 acres when you arrive 50 more acres for each family member and servant over 15 years old 1619- The arrival of the first African “Christian servants” and women come to the Americans

Jamestown By 1622, 4500 settlers had arrived March 1622, attacked by Native Americans 350 settlers killed English court revoked Virginia Company’s charter Virginia became a royal company- run by a governor appointed by the King

England comes to America…. Background: Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther & John Calvin English Reformation - Henry VIII as a divorcee Anglican Church vs. Catholic Church

Plymouth Puritans: separatists broke from Anglican Church (“purify” religion of Catholicism) James I imprisoned separatist leaders One group fled in 1608 to Netherlands, called “Pilgrims” Left Holland, joined other separatists in Eng, sailed to American Mayflower, 1620: 102 passengers, 65 days, rough weather Landed at Plymouth

Time for the Mayflower Compact Primary Source Analysis!

Thanks-giving Built common house Plague killed all but 50 settlers Squanto: “directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish and [how] to procure other commodities.” Peace treaty with Wampanoag people Fun fact: President George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide “Thanksgiving” in America November 26, 1789: "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God"

Puritans Unemployment in England John Winthrop and others held stock in Massachusetts Bay Company March 1630, 11 ships, 900 settlers 17 additional ships with 1,000 settlers brought later “Great Migration”- large wave of English Puritans to Massachusetts. Puritans

Church and State Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony: “Freemen” owned stock in company Formed General Court to make laws John Winthrop locked charter away; made own laws Each congregation controls own church, government supports church

Church attendance required Gambling, blasphemy, adultery, drunkenness all illegal Heretics considered threat to the community

John Winthrop: City on a Hill For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.