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Chapters 2 & 3

The 3 Gs of Exploration:
God spread Christianity
Gold and other
resources like silver &
spices; also wealth & new
markets for goods

Glory adventure, fame,

and power

Explorers & settlers from

England
Denmark
The Netherlands
France
Portugal
Russia
Spain

Think about it:

Which groups settled in what

is today the United States?

What does that mean?

charter certificate of
permission
joint-stock company
business plan founded &
run by a group of people
who invest in the plan &
share any money made (or
lost)

Delawares original royal charter

Two Main Types of Colonies:

Royal under the direct
control of the Crown
(monarch of England)

Proprietary belonged to
wealthy individuals or
companies

1st English colony: Roanoke

Sir Walter Raleigh
island in Virginia (today NC coast)

twice settled & failed

Why?
ships had trouble landing
sandy, infertile soil

Colony Chart Activity (part

1):

On your own paper, create the

chart (use the full page for your
chart)

Read pages 45-49

Complete your chart for ONLY
the following colonies:
Virginia
Maryland
Georgia

Southern Colonies
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

Date founded: 1607 (1st proprietary, 1624 royal)

Founder/Group: Virginia Company
Reasons for Settlement: gain wealth for England
and help with Englands population growth
Significant Facts:

Jamestown (1607)
Powhatan & Indian lands
John Smith
John Rolfe & Pocahontas
tobacco cultivation
House of Burgesses (1619)
Bacons Rebellion (1676)

Read document and answer the questions

included in the reading.

Disease

Stake in the land

Tobacco Cultivation

Free Land

especially Malaria from

mosquitoes in swamps

Hunger

colonists too weakened

by disease to farm

War

colonists owned and

worked their own land
led by John Rolfe,
wealth for England

with Indians under

Powhatans leadership

got 50 acres if your

paid for your passage
(or someone elses)

Reasons for Struggle

Reasons for
Success/Growth

Think about it
What was the purpose of the House of
Burgesses?

representative body people could make laws

Who could participate in it?

male landowners over 17 years

What powers did it have?

make laws and make taxes

What legacy/trend did it start?

colonists making decisions for themselves

Forced onto less fertile

lands in interior b/c of
population growth
War w/ Indians

Gov. William Berkeley

taxed heavily & gave
money to wealthy

Causes

Berkeley would not let

settlers attack all Indians
Settlers led by Nathaniel
Bacon rebelled (1676)
burned Jamestown
Bacon died & rebellion
ended

Events

Significance: showed poorer farmers would not put

up w/ a govt that only helped wealthy

Date founded: 1632

(proprietary colony)
Founder/Group: Lord Baltimore
Reasons for Settlement: create a refuge (safe
place) for Catholics who were discriminated
against
Significant Facts:
More Protestants settled here

Date founded: 1732 (proprietary colony)

Founder/Group: James Oglethorpe
Reasons for Settlement: create a buffer to
protect S. Carolina against Spanish Florida
Significant Facts:
Last of the 13 colonies
Set up as a haven for English
debtors
Because of Oglethorpes strict
rules, it became royal colony
in 1752

Colony Chart Activity (part 2):

Read pages 50-52
Complete your chart for ONLY
the following colonies:
Massachusetts (2 settlements)
Rhode Island
New England Colonies
1.
2.
3.
4.

New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

Massachusetts

Date founded: 1620

Founder/Group:
Pilgrims William
Bradford
Reason for Settlement:
religious freedom
Significant Facts:
Mayflower Compact 1620
doc. that established
self-government

Plymouth

Date founded: 1630

Founder/Group:
Puritans John
Winthrop
Reason for Settlement:
religious freedom,
create an ideal society
Significant Facts:
Elected own governor
only ones that did so

Massachusetts Bay

Complete the reading

Select one to two main points from the
reading and share with a partner.
As a group select the main point of the
reading and share with the class.

Created by 1662 by New

England Puritans
Form of partial church
membership for children
and grandchildren of full
members
Goal: keep current
members & attract new
ones

Date founded: 1636

Founder/Group: Roger Williams
Reasons for Settlement: create a refuge for
radical Puritans (religious dissenters)
Significant Facts:
Kicked out of Mass. Bay:
Williams pay Indians for land
Anne Hutchinson argued
Mass. had not done enough
to break from Anglican ways

Separation of church & state

Salem, Massachusetts

major Indian rebellion

1692

1675

Authorities tried,
convicted, & executed
19 suspected witches

Ended when prominent

citizens were accused

Salem Witch Trials

Indian chief Metacom

(known as King Phillip)
blamed, but multiple
tribes fought
Indians defeated & lost
most of remaining land

King Phillips War

Town Hall Meetings-conducted by local tax-paying

citizens (males w/ property) to decide issues
Massachusetts Legislature established by local towns
to provide local leadership
(not just the Crown)
1684 - Mass. lost its charter
& a new legislature established
Mass. became a royal colony in 1691

Colony Chart Activity (part 3):

Read pages 55-59
Complete your chart for ONLY
the following colonies:
New York
Pennsylvania

Work on this part INDIVIDUALLY

Middle Colonies
1.
2.
3.
4.

New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

Date founded: 1625, taken by English in 1664

Founder/Group: Dutch
Reasons for Settlement: guard the mouth of the
Hudson River to protect fur trade; English
wanted it to control trade
Significant Facts:
Dutch settlement New Amsterdam
later became city of New York
Tolerated other religious groups

Drew diverse group of colonists

Date founded: 1682

Founder/Group: William Penn
Reasons for Settlement: debt paid to Penn by
King Charles II of England; created to be a safe
haven for Quakers
Significant Facts:
Quakers followed Inner Light to
understand Bible, men & women
spiritually equal, pacifists,
tolerated other faiths

Peace w/ local Indians

New
England
small family farms
(livestock & grew
crops for own
use, not trade)
exported lumber
& fish
built ships
trade
manufacturing
major ports:
Boston

Middle
Colonies

Southern
Colonies

small family farms farming most

(exporting wheat
profitable region,
profitable)
grew tobacco,
built ships
rice, indigo
trade
(cotton by 1790s)
manufacturing
major ports:
(glass & iron)
Charleston
major ports:
Philadelphia
New York

New
England

Middle
Colonies

Southern
Colonies

few African
Americans
middle class
families who
could pay for trip
towns supported
schools = more
people literate
greater economic
equality
a few colleges

few African
Americans
came as families
mix of towns and
small & large
farms
most ethnically &
culturally diverse
a few colleges

African American
majority in areas
poor, young,
single men
indentured
servants
plantation
economy, slavery
population spread
far, few schools,
higher illiteracy
econ. inequality

Now that you have completed the colonial

comparison chart, turn your sheet over and
complete the Venn Diagram using the
information from the chart.

Three-part voyage called triangular trade

Middle Passage forced transport of enslaved

Africans from W. Africa to Americas; cramped
ships, suffered inhumane treatment = 10% died
(pages 68-69)

Cause: Southern Colonies needed

plantation workers
First used indentured servants
European immigration declined
by 1660s
First treated like
indentured servants
given freedom
By mid-1600s laws to
support permanent
enslavement

In North, worked in cities & could earn money to

pay for freedom
Many didnt share a culture (language or religion)
Blended African traditions to create new culture
Most adopted Christianity blended w/ some
African traditions

Government: salutary neglect

allowed colonies local self-rule
Economic: mercantilism policy
where a nation (mother country)
gained wealth by exporting
more manufactured goods than
it imported; goal: get gold &
silver through trade

Enlightenment (1600s & 1700s)

thinkers believed that all problems
could be solved using human
reason; challenged old ways
Significance for Colonies:
Inspired Benjamin Franklin scientist (invented lightning rod &
bifocal glasses), political
statesmen, printer, and writer of
American literature (Poor Richards
Almanac)
Represented social mobility &
colonial spirit of individualism

 Great Awakening (mid 1700s)

religious movement that featured

passionate preaching from
evangelical leaders

Preachers:
Jonathan Edwards Sinners in

the Hand of an Angry God

George Whitefield

Significance:

encouraged colonists to think for

themselves on religious matters;
extended to ideas about govt
George Whitefield