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London Company settles
•Poor site
•Unskilled colonists
Capt. John Smith takes control
•Brought food
•Taught colonists to grow corn
•Introduces sweeter tobacco to export to England
•Marries Pocahontas
•Powhatan & colonists fight
•England cancels London Company’s charter
•Virginia becomes royal company
Colonists who paid own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land & 50 for each person they brought
Workers were needed for plantations
•Indentured servants
•African slaves
Group of indentured servants attack Indians (led by N. Bacon)
Bacon & followers attack JamestownEffects:
•difficult to make peace with Indians
•fear of uprising of indent. servants led to more slavery
Protestant group that wanted to purify the Church of England
Most extreme group – SEPARATISTS (wanted to separate from Church of Eng.)
English leaders punish Separatists
One group was PILGRIMS
Pilgrims leave Eng. to escape persecution
Pilgrims go to Netherlands
•Allowed to practice own religion
•Children learn Dutch
•Feared they would forget culture/ traditions
•Disappointed by job opportunities
Move to Virginia
The Mayflower
William Bradford
Mayflower Compact - rules to govern selves
(Samoset, Squanto)
•Indians teach & help
•Pilgrims invite Indians to celebrate harvest
1st Thanksgiving
•Families common & center of life
•Women had more legal rights than in England
The New England Colonies
• The Massachusetts Bay Colony– dissenters-people who disagree with
official opinions.
• General Court– helped to run colony– founded Harvard in 1636 with the help of John
Harvard
Dissent in Massachusetts
• Roger Williams– disagreed with leadership– criticized the General Court for taking
land from the Indians without paying them.
– leaders made him leave– settled Providence• Anne Hutchinson– angered Puritan leaders by publicly discussing
religious ideas that were considered radical.
• Toleration Act of 1649– ease growing tensions between
Catholics and Protestants
•No towns or churches for a long time
People who paid their way received land grants.
Dutch Colony—New Netherland
later became an English Colony
1664
•diverse population of Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and Scots
•Founded because William Penn wanted a safe place for Quakers
•Government-protect against abuse of power
Granted charter by
King Charles I
•1733 -King George II granted a charter to James
Oglethorpe
•Outlawed slavery and limited land grants to 500 acres
•Once part of Pennsylvania 1682-1776
•Originally settled by Swedish
•Became part of English colonies in 1664