1. Native Americans & The Colonies

2. Puritans seeking religious freedom
Write the Mayflower Compact – 1st written government
Intolerant of others
Powhatan in Virginia
Many die from European diseases
Different views on land ownership
Get along better with French in Canada
Settled by Dutch & Germans
Quakers in PA & Huguenots & Jews in NY
Religious toleration & middle class
Good relations with Indians
Jamestown – 1st permanent English colony
Established by the Virginia Company
Settled by English cavaliers looking to make money
Strong ties to England

3. Athenian direct democracy with
Town hall meetings
Democratic principals
House of Burgesses – elected assembly
Middle Passage to America
Tobacco/cotton are labor intensive crops on plantations
Replace Indentured Servants as
labor force
Evangelical Revival across the colonies in 1700’s
Jonathan Edwards – famous preacher
Methodists and Baptists and challenge order.
Lays social foundations for the American Revolution