Roanoke

Sir Walter Raleigh John White

• Originally founded by Sir Walter Raleigh

• John White led expedition to stay permanently in 1587.

• 119 men, women and children

• Colony disappeared

• Virginia Dare first European white born

Jamestown

John Smith

pocahontasNot pocahantas

John Rolfe with Pocahontas

House of Burgesses

Jamestown

• Founded by the Virginia Company• John Smith said to have saved Jamestown(If

you don’t work, you don’t eat)• Pocahontas---Indian Princess married John

Rolfe• Starving Time---1609-10 60 out of 838 survive• Colony revived by use of indentured servants

and slaves• Beginning of Government ( House of Burgesses)

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Separatists or Pilgrims

Self-Government

Mayflower Compact

• Separatists---Pilgrims• 102 people on Mayflower• Sailed 66 days---landed off course at

Cape Cod• Set up Self-Government---Mayflower

Compact• Elected a Governor---William Bradford• Practiced Faith, Courage and

Determination

1634---Maryland

• Founded by Lord Baltimore

• Established as a refuge for Catholics

• Eventually opened to all that would work hard

Peg leg Pete

Duke of York

1664---New York

• Originally Dutch---New Netherlands

• Governed by Pete Stuyvesant (Pegleg Pete)

• Stolen by the Duke of York and renamed New York

William Penn and Indians signing treaty

1682---Pennsylvania

• Founded by William Penn

• Religious refuge for Quakers

• Principles of brotherhood and equality

• All were welcome

James Oglethorpe

1733---Georgia

• Founded by James Oglethorpe

• Refuge for debtors

• Founded as a social experiment

• Served as a strategic buffer against Spanish owned Florida

Thirteen colonies