Colonial Beginnings

US HistoryMr. Szyzdek

Motives for Movement

• Religious discontent- persecution of Catholics, Puritans, and Quakers.

• Joint Stock Companies (i.e. Virginia Company of London).

• Expanding population of cities• Development of Indentured servitude- passage to the

new world in exchange for working for a set amount of time.

• Headwright system- for recruiting a servant to come over, a person would get 50 acres of land.

First Permanent Settlements

• Roanoke- (1585)– Walter Raleigh sends a couple of ships to establish

Roanoke.– Settlers were never found, though to have died off

or joined the Natives• Jamestown-(1606)– 144 men established Jamestown in Chesapeake– Bad location– Mostly men/ get rich quick

Who Came?

• The Pilgrims– Left English Persecution– Settle in Plymouth

• Modern-day Massachusetts

• The Puritans– Escaped religious persecution from England

• But still wanted to partake in the church of England

• William Penn– In 1681, Penn creates a colony on his new land and names it,

Pennsylvania (Penn’s Woods)

The Mayflower Compact

Agriculture and Trade

• Lumber, ships stores, ship building, fish, tobacco, livestock, participated in slave tradeCaribbean.

• First African slaves brought into colonies.• Mercantilism- All trade with other nations

needs to go through the home-country. • Navigation Acts- stopped direct colonial trade

with other countries.

Native Conflicts

• Puritans and Pequot's- series of disastrous contacts.– Smallpox epidemic of 1633 killed over 10,000 Pequot's.– Many military encounters.

• Metacom's Rebellion/ King Phillip– Wampanoag leader organized neighboring tribes

to attack settlements in 1675, resulting in 1000 white and 4500 Indian deaths.

– King Phillip was captured and killed.

Native Conflicts Cont.

• Colonists encroached on Native lands• Native populations diminish severely• Fights break out• Money is needed to build up militias to control

the natives. • Some encounters become bloody and costly

for both sides but more for the Natives.

King Phillip’s War

Bacon’s Rebellion

• Poor farmers wanted the Natives who were protected under Colonial Law to be disowned and thrown out.

• Attacks on Indians by poor whites led to the killing of 300 whites near Virginia Colony.

• Bacon died in 1676.• The planter class sought to limit the number of

white servants who might rebel again, thus opening the way for slavery's expansion.

Slaves and Colony Life

• Due to developing success of tobacco, more labor was necessary.

• The tobacco crop as well as indigo and cotton in the south were very labor intensive crops.

• First slaves said to have been imported into the colonies were from a Dutch trade ship headed for Virginia in 1619.

• In 1670, wealthy planters in South Carolina established a trading post of African slaves.

Reflection

• Write down three questions that you might have after completing this PowerPoint.

• What might be some motives for movement by the colonists?