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Chapter 2 Beginnings of English America, 1607–1660

England and the New World

• Unifying the English Nation

• England and Ireland


• England and North America

• Spreading Protestantism

• Motives for Colonization


• The Social Crisis

• Masterless Men

The Coming of the English

• English Emigrants

• Indentured Servants

• Land and Liberty

The Coming of the English

• Englishmen and Indians

• The Transformation of Indian Life

• Changes in the Land

Settling the Chesapeake

• The Jamestown Colony

• From Company to Society


• Powhatan and Pocahantas

• The Uprising of 1622

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• A Tobacco Colony

• Women and the Family


• The Maryland Experiment

• Religion in Maryland

The New England Way

• The Rise of Puritanism

• Moral Liberty

The New England Way

• The Pilgrims at Plymouth

• The Great Migration

The New England Way

• The Puritan Family

• Government and Society in Massachusetts

• Puritan Liberties

New Englanders Divided

• Roger Williams

• Rhode Island and Connecticut

• The Trials of Anne Hutchinson


• Puritans and Indians

• The Pequot War


• The New England Economy

• The Merchant Elite

• The Half-Way Covenant

Religion, Politics, and Freedom

• The Rights of Englishmen

Religion, Politics and Freedom

• The English Civil War

• England’s Debate over Freedom

• English Liberty

Religion, Politics, and Freedom

• The Civil War and English America

• The Crisis in Maryland

• Cromwell and the Empire

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Mary Tudor, the queen who tried to restore

Catholicism in England



A pamphlet published in 1609 promoting

emigration to Virginia.



An indenture (a contract for labor for a period of

years) signed by James Mahoney



An engraving by John White of an Indian village

surrounded by a stockade.



The only known contemporary portrait of a

New England Indian



Powhatan, the most prominent Indian leader in the

original area of English settlement in Virginia



An advertisement for tobacco includes images

of Slaves with agricultural implements.



An early seventeenth-century engraving shows the

English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold



The Savage Family, a 1779 painting by the

New England artist Edward Savage



An embroidered banner depicting the main

Building at Harvard



The title page of a translation of the Bible into the

Massachusett language



A self-portrait from around 1680, painted

by Thomas Smith.

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