1. Write a Haiku about mercantilism.
Warmup, August 28th.
Write a Haiku about mercantilism.

2. Jamestown
Have sts make prediction

3. Jamestown Virginia Company, charter from James I
1606: 3 ships, 144 men
Swampy, malaria mosquitoes
Refused to do manual labor; tough lawmaking
Only 53 of 200 survived through 1608
Free land for 7 years of work
August 1609: 400 new settlers
Make a prediction

4. Jamestown 1607: John Smith established trade with Powhatan Confederacy
Winter of 1609: “Starving time”
Survival before profit
Plan A 1610: 6 hours per day required for all
Plan B 1614: Private cultivation: 1 month of work, 2.5 barrels of corn, keep the rest

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

6. Jamestown Profit 1614: John Rolfe King James I called it: “Vile weed
Harmful to the brain
Dangerous to the lungs
Black stinking fumes “baleful” to the nose”

7. Jamestown “Virginia” Reforms: right to elect its own assembly
First general assembly July 30, 1619
Governor
6 councilors
20 representatives (2 from each of 10 towns) called “burgesses”
House of Burgesses

8. Jamestown
Headrights: buy a share of the company or pay for passage…get 50 acres
50 more acres for each family member and servant over 15 years old
1619
first African “Christian servants”
90 women

9. 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 colony

12. Massachusetts & 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

13. Time for the Mayflower Compact Primary Source Analysis!

14. 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"

15. 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”
Puritans

17. 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 control own church, government supports church

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

19. 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.