Colonial Virginia

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Colonial Virginia

• A presentation by
• Ralph Costantini
• Bethany Pazolt

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Jamestown

• Founded by the Virginia Company of England
• Quarrels between council leaders cause nothing to
  get done
• John Smith takes control of the colony
• Virginia company goes bankrupt and colony
  Jamestown Fails intentionally
• In 1624 king takes over and the first
  representative government in America is disbanded

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John Smith Pocahontas
http//home.earthlink.net/hatbsa1/Virgin.html
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Life on the Plantations

• Main product- Tobacco
• Used servants that worked for 7 years
• As death rate dropped slave became more
  economically useful
• Bacons Rebellion also lead to the planters
  decision to use slaves instead of servants

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Important Links!
http//www.apva.org/finding/fort.html
http//williamsburg.net/tour/map_cw.html
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http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth
/addisonimg.html
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PowerPoint Created By Andrew Simon Matthew
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Plymouth Colony
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http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth
/champlain.html
Samuel Champlains Map Of Plymouth Colony A.
Anchorage C. Two Islands E. Duxbury Bay G. Where
the Pinnace Ran Aground B. The Channel D. Sand
Dunes F. Cabins H. The Gurnet
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Plymouth Colony Is Created

• In late December of 1620, one hundred and two
  men, women, and children began to establish the
  second English permanent settlement in the New
  World. They christened their plantation New
  Plymouth after their last port of call in
  England.
• The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, and
  in Nov., 1620, sighted the coast of Cape Cod. The
  ship anchored in Plymouth harbor, and the
  Pilgrims established a settlement.
• During the first winter of the colony, about half
  of the settlers died from scurvy and exposure.
  But they soon became more successful with the
  help of the Native Americans.

http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860438.htm
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Plymouth Colonys Early Years

• John Carver, the first governor, died in 1621.
  William Bradford then assumed the post
• First Thanksgiving celebrated! The feast was
  shared by all the colonists and the neighboring
  Native Americans.

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Plymouth Colony Grows

• Colonists occupied progressively more land in
  the 1620s and 1630s.
• The population was mostly of English origin
• They separated, and spread out

http//www.pilgrimhall.org/colgrows.htm
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Plymouth Colony Grows
http//www.pilgrimhall.org/colgrows.htm
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
http//loki.stockton.edu/gilmorew/0colhis/neng13.
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• March 4, 1629 the New England Company
  reorganized as the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Governmental rights were confirmed by a new
  charter from the king
• In 1629 Puritans voted to transfer the company
  from England to Massachusetts, giving the
  Puritans full control of their government.
• John Winthrop, a Puritan, was elected governor.
• John Winthrops group grew to thousands.

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• After Winthrops arrival, the Mass Bay Colony
  was changed from a trading company to a
  commonwealth.
• Freemen (adult males) could vote.
• Puritans were interested in reforming the
  English church from within.
• Roger Williams was exiled to Rhode Island
  because of his revolutionary ideas.

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John Winthrop
http//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/images/autho
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Roger Williams
http//www.cantonbaptist.org/halloffame/images/wil
liams.jpg
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• www.mouseworks.net/rogerwilliams/biography.htm

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Rhode Island

• Settlers from Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts
  Bay Colony traded with Indians in the
  Narragansett region
• First white settler - William Blackstone
• Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams who was
  banished from Massachusetts.
• Anne Hutchinson was exiled from MA and brought
  settlers who wanted religious freedom

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Development of R.I.

• 1639 - Newport founded by William Coddington
• 1643 - Shawomet (Warwick) founded by Samuel
  Gorton
• 1657/58 - Protection given to Quakers and Jews
  from Holland
• May 4, 1776 - Rhode Island became one of the
  thirteen colonies to renounce its allegiance to
  Great Britain.

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Early Connecticut

• Comprised of religious outcasts that fled from
  Massachusetts and headed for the Connecticut
  River Valley
• Windsor was their first settlement in 1633
• Thomas Hooker was the main founder of Hartford,
  Connecticut
• 1636 Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield formed
  the Connecticut Colony.

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Important People of the Colony

• John Winthrop, Jr. received a charter from the
  king of England in 1662
• William Leete-Governor of the colony of New
  Haven, and later Governor of Connecticut
• Thomas Hooker wrote the Fundamental Orders of
  Connecticut, the first American constitution
  written

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Characteristics of the Colony

• They worked in harmony as brethren of the same
  nation and creed
• Managed their private and public affairs
  prudently and were prosperous

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Founding of Maryland

• John Cabot sailed along Eastern Shore off
  present-day Worcester County in 1498.
• George Calvert a noblemen was given a charter in
  1632.
• He died and his son Cecilius was given 10 million
  acres on Chesapeake Bay, where his family was
  given power of government.

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http//www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc15
00/sc1545/e_catalogue/html/objects/1545_2551.html
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George Calvert
http//www.maui.net/mauifun/calvert.htm
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Founding of Maryland

• In Maryland the settlers were free to worship as
  they chose under the Maryland Toleration Act in
  1649
• The colony was known as Maryland in honor of the
  queen of Charles 1
• The colony was a religious refuge, for both the
  Puritans and Catholics

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Carolina Colonies
http//www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/nchistorical/
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http//www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/167
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Facts

• Sir Carteret and Sir Cooper some of the founders
• Established for profit and religious freedom
• some characteristics are lumber, navel stores,
  fur trade and tobacco growing
• Anthony Cooper and John Locke came up with the
  "Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina."

http//home.earthlink.net/hatbsa1/Carol.html
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John Locke
http//www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/People/
locke.html
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William Penn
http//images.google.com/images?
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William Penn Settles Pennsylvania

• In 1681 the king Charles II gave William Penn a
  charter to settle modern day Pennsylvania.
• Penn was a supporter of the Quaker faith. He
  wanted his new colony to be religiously tolerant.

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Map Of Pennsylvania
http//www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1700mordenHMM.
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Pennsylvania

• This is a map of the colony of Pennsylvania and
  New Jersey in the early 1700s
• By the end of this century the population of
  Pennsylvania was around 20,000

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Colonial Georgia
Brandee Gomez and Joe Zabielski
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Map Of Georgia
http//members.aol.com/jeworth/gbomiss.htm
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Savannah, Georgia
Http//eviog.uga.edu/projects/jeo300/engroots.htm
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• James Oglethorpe
• Oglethorpe, Sir John Perceval and 116 colonists
  founded Georgia
• Granted a royal charter in 1732 by the King of
  England
• He and his friends had authority over it for 21
  years before it would be turned over to the King
• It was considered a new paradise
• He compared it to the Garden of Eden

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• Characteristics of the Colony
• Furthest south of the colonies at the time
• The colonists received 50 acres of land, tools to
  work the land and enough supplies to last them
  one year
• It was used as a rehabilitation colony for
  financially challenged
• It was used as a buffer against the Spanish
• The colony forbid rum and slavery up until 1751
• 1752 the charter expired
• The land was then turned over to the King
• It never became a military stronghold