1. Early America

2. Important Dates 1492- Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas
1513- Ponce de Leon lands in America
1515- Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean
1565- first permanent settlement in St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez
1586- Colony at Roanoke disappears
1607- First permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Va.
1692- Salem Witch Trials

3. St. Augustine
Christopher Columbus
Voyage of Balboa
Lost Colony of Roanoke
James town
Woman charged with witchcraft

4. The Native Americans
Native Americans have been here at least thirty times longer than Europeans!
There is no true record of what went on here before Europeans arrived
They taught the Europeans things about agriculture, woodcraft, maize, beans, squash, maple sugar, snowshoes, toboggans, and canoes

6. Pilgrims & Puritans
In 1620 a small group (pilgrims) sailed here on the Mayflower
They came for religious freedom from corruption in the church
They established Plymouth, Mass.
Puritans came to America soon after and created the Mass. Bay Colony.
Puritans came to America to work on the corruptions of the church

8. Puritan Beliefs Humans exist only for the glory of God
Predestination (belief that God has already decided the chosen ones that will go to heaven)
Continual hard work
Self-discipline

9. Religious Change
The Plymouth colony was engulfed eventually by the Mass. Bay Colony
Their beliefs blended
By the 1700’s Puritanism was on the decline
In 1720 the Great Awakening occurred.
The Great Awakening was a movement of many religious revivals throughout churches which lead to many Protestant conversions

10. The Southern Planters
The Southern colonies differed from the colonies of New England
They lived on large plantations
Up to a thousand people might have lived and worked there (many of them enslaved)
First slaves were brought to Va. In 1619
Note that slavery did exist in EVERY colony

12. Literature
Native American literature was oral, so there are no set versions of their work. It deals with the natural world and how it connects to spirituality
Explorer Accounts tell of their journeys to America and westward
Religious writings include journals, diaries, sermons, hymns, historical records
***The Puritans felt that fiction and drama were both sinful.

13. What we will be reading
From the “Journal of the First Voyage to America” by Christopher Columbus
From “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford
Poetry by Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards