1. Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay
Have sts make prediction

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Jamestown 1607: John Smith established trade with Powhatan Confederacy
The Powhatan tribe introduced new crops to the English, including corn and tobacco
Winter of : “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

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

7. 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

8. 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

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 company- run by a governor appointed by the King

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

13. 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

14. Time for the Mayflower Compact Primary Source Analysis!

15. 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"

16. 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

18. 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

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

20. 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.