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Jamestown
• What was the first permanent English settlement?
• Who founded it and why?
• Jamestown (in Virginia)• Started by the Virginia Company – to
make money
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Jamestown - Motivations
• Why did most men come to Jamestown?
• Money and Land!• Laws of Primogeniture: English
laws that said only the first born sons could get land from their fathers.
• Made “other” sons desperate • Poor economic conditions and
land shortages in England
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Jamestown• What problems did
Jamestown have?• Wanted to find gold and
get rich quick• Not used to hard work• Arguing and fighting• Location = swamp and bad
water• Far from home• Mosquitoes and malaria• Powhatan Indians wary
and not helpful
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Jamestown - Government• What was the House of
Burgesses• Why was it important?
• Representative assembly in Virginia based on Parliament
• Attracted people to Virginia = just as free there as in England
• Importance = Precedent (example) for all other colonies
• Colonies would govern themselves• Have the same rights as people in
England
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Jamestown Success #1
• Why did Jamestown succeed?
• Leadership of John Smith: a soldier and explorer took control of the settlement.
• Installed military discipline = work for food.
• Established a relationship with the Powhatan.
• Negotiated for corn and helped keep the peace
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Jamestown Success #2• Why was Jamestown successful?
• Tobacco and Environment: very good (soil)• John Rolfe brought in tobacco (cash crop). • Brought in the money that the VA Company needed• More people desperate for money will move there• Importance: Motivation of money and the environment led
to - Plantation style farming and slavery in the South
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Jamestown Success #3• Why was Jamestown
successful?• Peace with the
natives• John Rolfe married
Pocahontas (Indian princess).
• Natives began to help the English
• Importance = time to grow
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Success #4• Why was
Jamestown successful?
• Successful Government • House of Burgesses, Representative
Government, and the charter
• Colonists would govern themselves and expect the same rights as people in England
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Jamestown Why so important?
• Environment led to plantation slavery in the Southern Colonies
• Motivation of money became a part of the culture.• Representative Government and rights of Englishmen for
colonists would lead to problems with the English government in the future.
• Success leads to growth of the Southern Colonies
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Plymouth• What was Plymouth?• Who founded it?
• 2nd permanent English settlement (1620).
• Settled by Pilgrims who traveled on the Mayflower.
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Plymouth
• Who were the Puritan Pilgrims?
• Protestants from England.• Wanted to reform the Church of
England by making it less Catholic (making it simpler)
• Wanted to separate from the Church of England (separatists).
• Persecuted (treated unfairly) for their beliefs in England
• In 1620 won a charter to start a new settlement in Virginia
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Plymouth (and New England)
• Why did people come to Plymouth?
• On a religious mission = start a colony based on their beliefs.
• Wanted religious freedom.
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Plymouth• What was the Mayflower
Compact?• Why was it important?
• Agreement that stated that they would have a government and follow its rules.
• Precedent for written limits to government power (like a constitution)
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Plymouth Success• Why was the settlement
successful?
• The people at Plymouth were hard workers.
• Local natives helped the settlers learn how to farm and survive the harsh weather.
• Government and religion provided order.
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Importance #1• Why was Plymouth
important?
• Religion = motivation of religion and the belief that “we are closest to god” became an important part of American culture.
• Religious freedom: Pilgrims allowed it in Plymouth = tradition for the future
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Importance #2• Why was Plymouth
important?• The first Thanksgiving• We still celebrate the
coming together of the settlers and the Indians each November.
• It is a religious based feast that has become a national holiday
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Importance #3• Why was Plymouth
important?• The Mayflower Compact: set a
precedent for constitutions and written documents about government
• Became an American tradition.• Other settlers would follow the
example leading to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut = the first Constitution followed the example of the Mayflower Compact
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Importance #4• Why was Plymouth
important? • Led to the growth of 4 New England Colonies that would be based on religion.
• Success of Plymouth led more Puritan settlers to come to these places.