The document summarizes why English settlers came to America and the establishment of early English colonies. It discusses that English settlers came for economic reasons like tobacco farming and fur trading as well as to escape political and religious persecution in England. The first successful English colony was Jamestown, established in 1607, which struggled at first but was saved by the implementation of discipline, improved native relations under John Smith, and the introduction of self-governance and female settlers. Subsequent colonies like Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were founded by religious dissenters seeking freedom to practice their faith. Other colonies like Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Maryland were established with principles of religious tolerance and freedom.

2. Why English Came:
Fortune
•No
gold/silver
•Tobacco
•Fur
Land
•Many non
firstborns
•Who could
not own land
in England
Politics
•Escape
tyrants:
James I &
Charles I
Religion
•Reformation
changes in
everyday life

3. English Settlements Become
Permanent
 Joint Stock Company
 Investors share profit, not liabilities
 Chartered by king
 1606 King James I charters 2 companies:
 London Company (Jamestown)
 Plymouth Company (fail after 1 year)

4. Jamestown
 1607- First English
settlement in New World
 Hard life
 ½ population died first winter (starvation & disease)
 Trouble with Native Indians
 Land
 Pocahontas

6.  Implemented discipline in colony
 Improved relations with Native Indians
 After his departure
 “starving time”
 90% population of Jamestown died
 Without reinforcements from Europe, colony would have
disappeared
Disney version
History version
“anyone who did
not work did not
eat”
500
60
John Smith

7. 4 Things That Saved Jamestown
 1. Martial Law Ended (Rule by the military)
 2. House of Burgess Formed
 3. Dutch ship arrives
 4. Women arrive in Jamestown

8. 1. Martial Law Ended
 Why martial law in 1610-11?
 What were they afraid of?
 What were they trying to accomplish?

9. 2. House of Burgess Formed
 1st representative assembly
 1st self governing assembly
 Tradition started here copied by
all other colonies to follow
 150 years later Revolutionary
War fought for these rights

10. 3. Dutch Ship
 First Africans brought to New World
 Slave Trade
 Status
 Indentured Servants?
 Lifelong Slaves?
 Begins sad history of slavery in
America
 last over 300 years

11. 4. Women
Arrive
 90 single women
 Purchased for wives
 Pay for price of her trip
 Family Life
 Stability
 Happiness
 Population growth
"...the plantation can never
flourish till families be planted
and the respect of wives and
children fix the people on the
soil.” Sir Edwin Sandy, Treasurer Virginia
Company of London, 1620

13. Massachusetts
 Pilgrims on Mayflower 1620 (William Bradford)
 Puritans
 Separatists
 VA  Massachusetts
 Plymouth
 Outside of VA Co.
 Had to make their own
gov’t.
 MAYFLOWER COMPACT
 Pilgrim agree to obey laws and elected leader
 First document of self-gov’t. in America
Fur
Fish

14. First written
document
of
self-gov’t.

15. John Winthrop
 Dream = “wilderness zone”
 Society lead by the Bible
 “true christian community”

16. Connecticut
 1636 – Thomas Hooker
 Starts 3 communities along Connecticut River
 Outside jurisdiction of Bay Colony
 Own system of gov’t.
 FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS
OF CONNECTICUT
 First written constitution
of self gov’t
 Representative gov’t

17. Rhode Island
Roger Williams
•Different views from
Puritans (separate church
and state)
•Lived with Indians
•Lead the way for religious
tolerance (religious
freedom)
Anne Hutchinson
•Mom of 15 kids
•Different views from
Puritans
•Antinomianism =
obedience to God not
necessary to show inward
relationship with God
Religious
Tolerance
(Freedom)

19. New York
(New Netherland)
 Dutch
 Roosevelt
 Van Buren
 Wall St. = defense against
Native Americans
 Henry Hudson
 Explore and claim land
for Dutch
 Peter Minuit
 bought Manhattan Island
from Indians

20. Pennsylvania
 William Penn
 Expelled  his beliefs
 Quaker
 Land grant from King Charles II
 Named it “Penn’s Woods” (Pennsylvania)
 Holy Experiment = utopia of love, peace and toleration of
all (Philadelphia = city of brotherly love)
 Frame of Government
 Written document by Penn
 Set precedence for religious toleration and political
liberty for colony

21. Delaware
 Swedish settlement first
 Log cabin
 Fixture of American
society for next 200 years

23. Maryland
 1634 – Cecilius and George Calvert led settlers
 Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore $$$$
 Refuge for English Catholics
 Toleration for all religion (Toleration Acts)
 Commercial success
 tobacco
 cotton
 corn
 vegetables
 grain
 fruit and livestock
Safe for
Catholics

24. The
Carolinas
 North = farmers
 South
 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper
 sugar plantation
 Trade buckskins & Indian slaves
 Rice cultivation

25. Georgia
 Southernmost colony
 Military buffer against Florida (Spanish)
 Reform for debtors & vagrants
 James Oglethorpe offered rehabilitation through hard
work
 Men given 50 acres, tools and seeds
 Savannah first settlement