- Rhode Island
- Date settled/conquered
- Founded in 1636
- It was founded by Roger Williams
- Originally about twenty families helped Williams set up the colony.
- It was set up based on freedom of religion.
- Key Players
- Anne Hutchinson - Purchased a big space of land from the Native Americans, which later became Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Had 15 children. Banished from Massachusetts.
- Samuel Gorton - Also purchased land from Native Americans and this became the towns of Providence and Warwick. Also was the 5th President of Providence and Warwick.
- Roger Williams - Young preacher. Banished from Massachusetts. 1644, he obtained a charter for a new colony. Purchased land from Narragansett to create the new providence.
- Agriculture.
- Raised livestock.
- Dairy products from livestock.
- Fishing.
- Cut down trees.
- Natives
- They had friendly relations with the Natives.
- Shared land and resources for around 40 years.
- The frinedly relations were due mostly to the friendship and resepct between Williams and Miantonomi.
- Successes
- Build towns because of their lumber.
- Lived peacefully with Natives.
- Agriculture thrived with their crops and livestock.
- Rhode Island is still on the map.
- Issues
- 1963, the throne of William and Mary issued a patent extending Rhode Island's territory, conflicting with the claims of Plymouth colony.
- Several transfers of territory between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
- Plymouth
- Date Settled and Conquered.
- Settled in 1685.
- Belonged to England
- Agriculture.
- First winter lack of food.
- Native American's help - Thanksgiving.
- Corn
- Fish
- Beans
- Squash
- How they got there.
- Came over on the Mayflower
- September 1620.
- 102 people
- Protestant Separatists.
- Issues Faced
- The first winter was really harsh.
- They were unable to plant crops.
- Successes
- Created a government run by the Mayflower Compact
- Made a peace treaty with the Wampanoag tribe.
- Economy developed in furs etc.
- Key Players
- John Alden
- Came over on the Mayflower
- Ship-Carpenter
- Signed the Mayflower Compact
- Founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620
- Chief Massasoit
- Leader of the Wampanoag tribe.
- He knew the land of other tribes.
- Spoke English
- Massasoit means Great Sachem (Great Leader)
- William Bradford
- Came over on the Mayflower
- Governor of Plymouth
- Thanksgiving
- John Alden
- Contact with Natives
- First colonists got along well with the Wampanoag.
- Samoset knew some English and offered to help them.
- They were challenged to fight by Narragansett.
- Squanto.
- Date Settled and Conquered.
- Jamestown
- Mother Country
- England.
- Established in Virginia on May 14, 1607.
- England provided raw materials that Jamestown lacked.
- Navigation acts regulated trade between the colonies and mother country.
- This ensured that the mother country received the benefits of the goods and materials produce by the colony.
- How the settlers got there.
- In Jamestown, people worked for a specified period of time, usually four or five years, in return for some form of compensation.
- The compensation was usually passage to the colony, room and board, and 'freedom dues'.
- Freedom dues were three barrels of corn and a new suit.
- Issues faced.
- They did not know how to hunt because too man were busy digging for gold.
- They did not know how to grow crops.
- No fresh water.
- No knowledge of livestock.
- Disease.
- and Hunger/Starvation.
- They eventually learned how to grow tobacco to generate some income.
- Key Players
- Powhatan - Pumunkey Indian chief and the father of Pocahontas. He was also the leader of the confederation of Chesapeake tribes surrounding the English settlement at Jamestown.He provided the corn essential to the colony's early survival.
- Opechancanough - Powhatan's brother. Became increasingly unsettled by the growth fo the English colony, and launched a massive raid against Jamestown in March 1622, killing 347 settlers.
- John Smith - English soldier and adventurer, and Jamestown's most important figure during the colony's first two years. Smith returned to England in 1604 and joined the first company of settlers sent to Jamestown in December 1606. He was named to the Colony's governing council, but his heavy-handed methods quickly antagonized the other leaders. He similarly alienated common settlers an the local Indians, but he is generally credited with helping the colony survive.
- Successes
- Jamestown's settlers only wanted to search for gold, not work on food, so Smith saved them by trading for food.
- Natives
- The Natives attacked one of the England ships before it even landed.
- The Indians started giving them food and the newcomers became dependent on Indians for food.
- The people of Jamestown became very dependent on the Indians.
- This made the Indians mad because they got nothing in return.
- Agriculture
- The Europeans were more interested in growing crops for trade and export rather than crops for themselves
- Main crop was tobacco.
- Traded tobacco for other foods.
- They transported their crops using the nearby Aquia Creek.
- Farmers
- Typically owned cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, and oxen.
- Didn't do much in winter.
- Farm-hands only made about 30$ a year.
- End of Jamestown
- Ended in 1622.
- Many people were getting sick from the river water.
- The Indian Massacre also happened around this time.
- Fun Facts
- Good horses around 20$.
- Teachers made only about 30$.
- Traveled in Winter and Summer.
- Liked Virginia Ham.
- Mother Country
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Settlements and Colonies in Present Day 'Merica.
- Roanoke
- March 25, 1584.Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to go settle in North America.
- Established in 1585.
- It is a colony that was funded and set up by London Co., so the mother country is England.
- First English colony.
- Key Player
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Writer, poet, soldier, and explorer.
- Married a lady-in-waiting, assistant, to Queen Elizabeth I.
- When back in England, the King had him locked up.
- He was later released and set out to find the City of Gold.
- Was later imprisoned again, but this time he was executed.
- Raleigh, N.C.
- One of the biggest tobacco produces in USA, part of "Tobacco Road".
- Virgina Dare
- First child born in America to English parents.
- Granddaughter to John White.
- John White
- English Artist
- Known for being the first governor of Roanoke.
- Went back to England to resupply for the Roanoke settlement and when he returned, all that was left was the word "Cro", probably for the word Croaton, which was an Indian Tribe.
- The houses were disassembled so it was very unlikely that they left quickly or forced to leave.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Roanoke Interesting Facts
- Known as the "Lost Colony"
- How they may have died out
- Captured by Indian tribes. (most likely)
- Lost at sea.
- Spanish.
- Dare Stones.
- Virginea Pars Map.
Homework: Virginea Pars Map 2 paragraphs and which one would have been the most interesting way.
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