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Colonial Beginnings. US History Mr. Szyzdek. Motives for Movement. Religious discontent- persecution of Catholics, Puritans, and Quakers. Joint Stock Companies (i.e. Virginia Company of London). Expanding population of cities - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Colonial Beginnings
US HistoryMr. Szyzdek
Motives for Movement
• Religious discontent- persecution of Catholics, Puritans, and Quakers.
• Joint Stock Companies (i.e. Virginia Company of London).
• Expanding population of cities• Development of Indentured servitude- passage to the
new world in exchange for working for a set amount of time.
• Headwright system- for recruiting a servant to come over, a person would get 50 acres of land.
First Permanent Settlements
• Roanoke- (1585)– Walter Raleigh sends a couple of ships to establish
Roanoke.– Settlers were never found, though to have died off
or joined the Natives• Jamestown-(1606)– 144 men established Jamestown in Chesapeake– Bad location– Mostly men/ get rich quick
Who Came?
• The Pilgrims– Left English Persecution– Settle in Plymouth
• Modern-day Massachusetts
• The Puritans– Escaped religious persecution from England
• But still wanted to partake in the church of England
• William Penn– In 1681, Penn creates a colony on his new land and names it,
Pennsylvania (Penn’s Woods)
The Mayflower Compact
Agriculture and Trade
• Lumber, ships stores, ship building, fish, tobacco, livestock, participated in slave tradeCaribbean.
• First African slaves brought into colonies.• Mercantilism- All trade with other nations
needs to go through the home-country. • Navigation Acts- stopped direct colonial trade
with other countries.
Native Conflicts
• Puritans and Pequot's- series of disastrous contacts.– Smallpox epidemic of 1633 killed over 10,000 Pequot's.– Many military encounters.
• Metacom's Rebellion/ King Phillip– Wampanoag leader organized neighboring tribes
to attack settlements in 1675, resulting in 1000 white and 4500 Indian deaths.
– King Phillip was captured and killed.
Native Conflicts Cont.
• Colonists encroached on Native lands• Native populations diminish severely• Fights break out• Money is needed to build up militias to control
the natives. • Some encounters become bloody and costly
for both sides but more for the Natives.
King Phillip’s War
Bacon’s Rebellion
• Poor farmers wanted the Natives who were protected under Colonial Law to be disowned and thrown out.
• Attacks on Indians by poor whites led to the killing of 300 whites near Virginia Colony.
• Bacon died in 1676.• The planter class sought to limit the number of
white servants who might rebel again, thus opening the way for slavery's expansion.
Slaves and Colony Life
• Due to developing success of tobacco, more labor was necessary.
• The tobacco crop as well as indigo and cotton in the south were very labor intensive crops.
• First slaves said to have been imported into the colonies were from a Dutch trade ship headed for Virginia in 1619.
• In 1670, wealthy planters in South Carolina established a trading post of African slaves.
Reflection
• Write down three questions that you might have after completing this PowerPoint.
• What might be some motives for movement by the colonists?