The American Colonies Emerge

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Chapter 2

• The American Colonies Emerge

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Section 1Spains Empire in the Americas

• Spanish explores took to the seas to claim new
  colonies for Spain.lured by the prospect of vast
  lands filled with gold and silver
• These explorers were known as conquistadors
• First areas to explore- Caribbean region, Central
  and South Americathen Mexico

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Conquistadors Rebellion

• Hernando Cortes
• Aztec
• Juan Ponce De Leon
• Florida
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
• Southwest US
• Pope
• - Pueblo religious leader

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Section 2An English Settlement at Jamestown

• King James I of England granted a charter to the
  Virginia Company in 1606
• Jamestown, Virginia was claimed in April 1607 by
  English settlers
• Business of Colonization (pg. 42-46)
• Joint stock companies
• Tobacco
• Headright system
• Indentured servants
• African laborers

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its a rough life for me.

• Settlers clash with Native Americans
• - no desire to live among the Native Americans
• Powhatan and Pocahontas
• Economic differences split the colonists
• - Royal colony bankruptcy for the Virginia
  Company
• -Bacons Rebellion- unfair treatment to planters

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Internet Activity

• Jamestown, History globe

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Video Clip
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Section 3Puritan New England
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Puritans and Separtists
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A House Divided will fall

• Roger Williams
• an extreme separatist two controversial views
• 1. declared that English settlers had no
  rightful claim to the land unless they purchased
  it from Native Americas.
• 2. declared that the government officials had no
  business punishing settlers for religious
  beliefs.
• was ordered to be arrested, but Williams fled
  and set up a new colony, Providence.

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• Anne Hutchinson
• She taught that the Holy Spirit illumines the
  heart of every true believer meaning neither
  church nor ministers were needed to interpret the
  Bible for them.
• Anne was banished from the colony in 1638.went
  to Rhode Island and eventually settled in New
  Netherland( New York) where Dutch practiced
  religious toleration.

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Land Disputes

• Pequot War- Connecticut, 1637.
• colonists formed alliance with enemy tribe of
  the Pequots and nearly destroyed the entire
  nation.
• King Philips War- 1675
• Wampanoag (Chief Matacom) tribe attacked and
  burned settlements throughout New England. His
  death in the battles ended Native American power
  in southeastern New England.

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Conflicts with Native Americans
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Section 4 Settlement of the Middle Colonies

• Henry Hudson- 1609. Hudson River (NY)
• I. 1621. Dutch Found New Netherland
• 1625. New Amsterdam (now New York City) became
  fur trade capital.
• Colony was diverse- Germans, French,
  Scandinavians, Africans (free and enslaved)
• II. Dutch were driven out by EnglishKing Charles
  brother James, took over the land..renamed it New
  York and gave land to his friends, naming the
  territory New Jersey.

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A Holy Experiment

• William Penn settled in Pennsylvania -- Quakers
• Quakers believed that Gods inner light burned
  inside everyone.
• Held services without formal ministers
• Dressed plainly, oppose war or persons of rank
  (military)
• Harassed by Anglicans and Puritans in England
• Philadelphia, the capital, called city of
  brotherly love
• Guaranteed every adult male settler 50 acres of
  land and the right to vote.
• System of representative assembly (govt) and
  freedom of religion.

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Settlement of the Middle Colonies