US I History | Ms. Burke

1. Virginia (1607)2. Massachusetts Bay Colony (1620 / 1628)3. New York (1623)4. Maryland (1634)5. Connecticut (1636)6. Rhode Island (1636)7. New Hampshire (1638)8. Delaware (1638)9. Carolina (North and South) (1663)10. New Jersey (1664)11. Pennsylvania (1682)12. Georgia (1733)

Known as the “Lost Colony” In what is now North Carolina First attempt by the British (Queen

Elizabeth I) to set up colonies in North America in 1585• She sends Sir Walter Raleigh

Colonists disappear…what happened?• Anglo-Spanish War?• Native American attack? • Did they integrate with neighboring tribes?

The clues…• “Croatoan” carved into a nearby tree• All the houses / buildings were gone• Walls of the colony were unmarked and still

up

What do you think happened?

Jamestown• “Starving Time”

Set up by the London Company (joint stock company)

Headright system• each settler is promised a certain number of

acres of land for the promise of colonization

King James I grants a charter to establish an English settlement in the Chesapeake region

About 100 settlers come to the New World to…• Find gold• Find a way to the Pacific• Build a settlement

Immediately attacked by the Powhatan Indians

Town would have been abandoned without the new governor, Lord De La Ware

Why does Jamestown succeed? • Peace treaty with the Pocahontas – John

Rolfe marriage • Discovery of tobacco farming

First representative assembly in English North America – Jamestown Church in 1619

The first instance of African slavery in the British American Colonies…• First slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619

Pilgrims leave England for religious freedom• First go to Holland, but then met with investors

to set up a colony in the Americas Second successful English

settlement Has become a central theme in US

history

Founders: John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges• Gorges: “Father of English Colonization in

America”

First governing document of Plymouth Colony

Signed November 11, 1620 Only 41 of the 101 Pilgrims signed

this document•WHY?

Set up by John Winthrop Strongly Puritan

In 1691, Plymouth joins with Mass Bay Colony

Starts as “New Netherlands” Is taken over by the English (Duke of

York) without a single shot

Dutch founders:• Peter Stuyvesant• Peter Minuit

King Charles gives land to Lord Baltimore (George Calvert) to create a haven for Catholics in America•WHY?

Founded by Thomas Hooker• He left Mass Bay Colony due to dissatisfaction

with the leadership

In 1639, three different settlements in the Connecticut River Valley joined to form a unified government and created the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut• FIRST WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN AMERICA

Collection of four settlements that eventually merge• Roger Williams (Providence)• Anne Hutchinson (Portsmouth)

Williams and Hutchinson were kicked out of Mass Bay Colony for religious differences

Founded by John Mason Settled by John Wheelwright and

others

Founded by Peter Minuit• What other colony did he found?

Eight men received charters for the Carolinas from King Charles II to settle lands south of Virginia

Main port Charles Town (Charleston)

1729 – North and South Carolina split

Duke of York granted land to Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

Separated into two parts East and West Jersey

1702 – the two sections merge

Quakers settle Pennsylvania with their founder : William Penn

First settlement is Philadelphia

Only colony to oppose slavery from its foundation

Complete religious freedom!

King James II combines the following colonies into ONE COLONY• Connecticut• Massachusetts Bay Colony• Plymouth• Rhode Island• New York• New Hampshire• East Jersey• West Jersey

Now called The Dominion of New England

Sir Edmund Andros is appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief

The colonists are upset because he does not have to answer to any higher authority• What type of government is this?

Founded by James Oglethorpe

Goal was to create a barrier or buffer between South Carolina and Florida• WHY?

New England Middle Colonies South

Connecticut Delaware Maryland

Rhode Island Pennsylvania Virginia

Massachusetts New Jersey North Carolina

New Hampshire New York South Carolina

Georgia