CHAPTER 3- ENGLISH COLONIES ARE CREATED

• English Colonies • The land had been discovered and explored,

now it needs to be colonized. Chapter Objectives:

1-To describe how the Jamestown colony became a successful settlement2-To identify the Pilgrims and the Puritans and where they settled3-To explain how each English colony came into being4-To describe what life was like in colonial times5-To recognized which colonies made up the New England, middle, and southern regions

JAMESTOWN COLONY

• 4 month trip from England to Virginia-in 1607 Jamestown was established • Jamestown’s Conditions• Region was swampy and did not have good drinking

water• Paid little attention to working and growing crops rather

finding gold and silver • Mosquitos carrying malaria and other diseases

• Conditions improve• Settlers found a leader in John Smith-set up a rule that

everyone needed to work • John Smith tried to get along with the Powhatans• Supplied the starving settlers with corn

JAMESTOWN COLONY

• 1610 three more English ships carrying supplies and 150 more settlers arrived • 3 Important Events took place

1-Lord Delaware was made governor 2-John Rolfe planted tobacco which allowed them to make money off the crop 3-John Rolfe married a young Indian women named Pocahontas (daughter of the Powhatan chief) which improved the settlers and Indians relationship

JAMESTOWN COLONY

• House of Burgesses was formed • This was a group of people that met to make laws for the

larger group • This proved to be the beginning of the representative

form of government for America

PILGRIMS AND THE PURITANS

• Plymouth Company had rights to settle in Virginia however they actually settled in New England • Pilgrims • Group of separatists (pilgrims) who did not agree with the

religious beliefs of King James I• They wanted to break away from the Church of England

completely • They were treated very poorly, and many first fled to

Holland, but they were not comfortable with that setting

PILGRIMS

• What Plan did the Pilgrims make?• London Company supplied ships and all the supplies

under 3 conditions1-could settle on the land belonged to the London company in Virginia 2-settlers would work for 7 years and give all the profits back to the investors 3-after 7 years they were free to do as they wished

• Pilgrims Voyage • 64 day voyage on the Mayflower • The ship was blown off course and they landed in present

day cape cod • Called their colony Plymouth

MAYFLOWER COMPACT

• Mayflower Compact • Because they landed farther north and where they were not

chartered, they held a meeting and set up their own rules of government

• Elected a leader and agreed to pass laws with the majority rule of the group

• This marked the beginning of Democracy in America

PURITANS

• Puritans • Unhappy with King James I and their religious ideas• Received a charter in the name of the Massachusetts Bay

Colony • 1000 teachers, doctors, lawyers, ministers and

merchants set out on a fleet of 15 ships • Landed in Boston in 1630• John Winthrop became the governor of the new

settlement • Within a few years the settlement had grown to nearly

10,000 settlers

THE ENGLISH COLONIES GROW

• Maryland• Under new King Charles I Maryland colony was created

1632• Passed the Toleration Act requiring all settlers to enjoy

religious freedom

• Rhode Island• Roger Williams spoke out against the strict Puritans laws

and fled • Started the of Providence, which is today in Rhode Island

• Connecticut • Another group of Puritans were interested in migrating

west to the Connecticut Valley • Thomas Hooker started the colony in 1636

OTHER COLONIES SETTLED

• Carolina• 1663 English nobles requested a charter to settle the

land of Carolina• Charleston named after King Charles II became and

important port• Political arguments forced the splitting of Carolina in

1729 into North and South Carolina

• New York• New York began in 1609 as a Dutch colony also called

New Netherland• English took over the Dutch colony in 1664 and renamed

it New York

OTHER COLONIES

• New Hampshire • This colony was part of Massachusetts for 39 years until it

was sold to the king of England in 1679• Pennsylvania • William Penn was granted a charter • Penn was a Quaker who believed in equality of all people

• Delaware • 1682 William Penn was also granted the land know today as

Delaware• Dutch, Swedes and Finns settled here

• New Jersey • 1702 New Jersey became a colony

• Georgia • James Ogelthorpe aske for a charter where the poor and

unfortunate could settle whey they left prison • 1733 the colonists arrived in what is today Savannah

Georgia

13 COLONIES ESTABLISHED

• Settlement of the 13 colonies took place between 1607 and 1733

• Population by the late 1600’s was estimated around 200,000-300,000

THE SIZE OF THE COLONIES INCREASE

• Life in the Colonies • American Life was taking shape• Farmers planted crops, merchants sold and shipped goods• Wealthy class of merchants, and large planters • Middle class of farmers, shopkeepers, artisans, and teachers• Lower class were the unskilled workers, indentured servants,

and slaves

• Indentured Servant • Worker who would come to the colonies and have their trip

paid for, housing and food paid for • Usually worked for 4-7 years

3 COLONIAL REGIONS

• Northern of New England Colonies • New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and

Connecticut • Shipbuilding, lumbering, fishing, trading, and ironworks

became their main source of work• Middle Colonies • New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware • Mixed climate which provided grains such as corn and wheat • Called the bread colonies producing large amounts of grain

• Southern Colonies • Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and

Virginia• Warmer climate provided greater growing seasons on

plantations • Grew “money crops” such as rice, tobacco, and indigo• Slave labor was introduced to the wealthy plantation owners