Colonization

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Colonization

• Part 1 The First English Colonies

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Objectives

• Name the first three English colonies in
• America

2. Describe how representative government took
root in Virginia
3. Explain why the Pilgrims started a colony in
North America
4. Describe how Native Americans helped the
Colonies to survive
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Settlement at Roanoke

• Sir Walter Raleigh raised money to start a colony
  in North America.
• Colonists landed on Roanoke Island off the coast
  of present-day North Carolina in 1585.
• Colonists ran short of food quarreled with
  neighboring Native Americans.
• Settlers returned to England.

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Roanoke Part Two

• Raleigh asked settlers to return to Roanoke with
  their wives and children in 1587.
• Supplies ran low. John White, leader, returned to
  England to get supplies.
• White was unable to return for three years
  because of war between England and Spain.
• White found that the settlers at Roanoke had
  disappeared.

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• The Colony at Roanoke

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Jamestown Colony

• King James I granted charter to the Virginia
  Company giving it the right to settle lands
  between North Carolina and the Potomac River.
• Charter guaranteed colonists of Virginia the same
  rights as English citizens.
• Colonists arrived in 1607 naming their settlement
  Jamestown for King James I.
• Jamestown started in swampy area colonists
  suffered from disease.
• Jamestown became the first permanent English
  colony in America.

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Jamestown
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Starvation and Recovery

• Captain John Smith observed colonists not
  planting enough crops because they wanted to hunt
  for gold.
• Smith set up rule, If you dont work, you dont
  eat! saved colony.
• Smith set up friendly relations with nearby
  Powhatan tribe.
• Pocahontas married settler John Rolfe.
• Colonists began growing tobacco which was an
  economic success for the colony.

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1619

• Male settlers in Jamestown allowed to elect
  representatives to House of Burgesses the
  beginning of representative government in America
• Women settlers arrived in Jamestown
• African Americans were brought to Jamestown to
  work as laborers for growing tobacco some were
  slaves for life, some were indentured servants

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Jamestown Building the First Permanent English
Settlement
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Pilgrims Seek Religious Freedom

• Pilgrims belonged to religious group called
  Separatists wanted to separate from the Church
  of England
• Separatists were fined, jailed, and executed for
  religious beliefs in England
• Pilgrims moved to Holland, but their children
  were losing English way of life
• Pilgrims decided to set up a colony in North
  America

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Plymouth Colony

• Pilgrims set sail in Mayflower in 1620.
• Pilgrims signed Mayflower Compact which set up
  rules for their new settlement.
• Named William Bradford as Gov.
• Pilgrims named their colony Plymouth.
• Pilgrims received help from Native Americans
  Samoset and Squanto.
• Pilgrims celebrated harvest in fall of 1621
  invited Native Americans (first Thanksgiving).

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The Mayflower Compact
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Life at Plymouth