IntegrityDoing the right thing at the right time even when no one is looking.
Journal Writing
Chapter 3
Colonial America
Section 1: Early English Settlements The Lost Colony
of Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island, 1585 Returned Home Under Raleigh, sent White to
try to settle again White returned to England for
supplies When returned, colony was
gone. England was a failure to settle
North America.
Jamestown Settlement; 1607
Settled by the Virginia Company
Economic prosperity Settled in Chesapeake
Bay Name Jamestown in honor
of King. John White saves the
colony by making all work Tobacco saves
Jamestown
Magna Carta
Jamestown’s Representative Government
Page A9 King John 1215 Start of representative
government
Right to create local laws for community
Slavery in America
First Africans Brought over to be servants by Dutch starting in 1619
Originally given freedom after set amount time served
1661: Need for workers brought the institution of slavery.
Help from Native Americans
Why is this important?
Chapter 3:2
New England colonies
Magna Carta
Demands for Religious Freedom Protestant Reformation 1517 Catholic Church Martin Luther and the posted
95 Thesis Protestant vs. Catholic
Church Division in Europe
Henry the VIII
New England Colonies
Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire Map on page 79: Poor soil, great fishing, thick forest, great natural
harbors.
Pilgrims
Separatists Wanted to separate
from the Church of England (Anglican) and start new church
1620 left for the New World
Settled in Plymouth Mayflower Compact:
promised to obey English Law.
Pilgrims Mayflower Compact Formal document that swore
loyalty to England and to obey the laws passed.
Massachusetts Bay Poor soil conditions 1625 Anglican Church of England begins to
persecute Puritans. Puritans look for ways to leave England New England Company: Puritan’s chance
to create a new society in American based on the Bible.
Settled in Boston area. Came for religious freedom but had no
tolerance for other religious groups.
Great Migration Puritans journey to
Massachusetts by the thousands.
People in the colony wanted more role in the government.
Only male and church members could vote
Connecticut Settled by Thomas
Hooker because he was not satisfied with the way Puritan leaders ran colony.
Better soil, not as rocky.
Rhode Island Settled by Roger Williams Williams believed that people
should be free to follow any religious practices.
Asked to leave. “Bought” land from Native
Americans Allowed Religious tolerance
Anne Hutchinson A woman that
questioned the practices of her Puritan church
Put on trial for heresy
Asked to leave Boston
Settled in Rhode Island. Why?
New HampshireBecame independent from Massachusetts in 1679.
Settled by Puritans.
Native Americans
Decline in Population from disease and war with settlers
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