US History

What happened to Pocahontas

An Englishman kidnapped Pocahontas and took her as a hostage to Henrico and taught her the Christian religion and gave her the name, Rebecca. She eventually was taken back to Europe and she died at 22 of disease.

penn

Got a grant for America so Quakers had a place to go. He made Pennsylvania for the Quakers. He gave everyone 50 acres of land there

Massachusetts vs. Virginia

Massachusetts you were under extreme rule. Virginia (Jamestown) you had more freedom but you weren't living as long and quality of life was aweful

Puritans concept of city on a hill

Means to be at peace with native Americans

Reasons for English Exploration

Money, to attack the Spanish, the NW passage, raw materials, place to sell goods, place to dump unwanted people

Squanto

Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.

Middle Colonies

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Started for commerce, trade and profit. It was successful.

To encourage people to come to Jamestown they were

Offering land to people

Indentured Servants

People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, the indentured servant would serve that person for a set length of time (usually seven years) and then would be free.

John White

Roanoke's colony leader who returned to England for more food and tools--when he finally returned to Roanoke the colony had vanished--the only clue he found of Roanoke or the "Lost colony" was the native american tribes name "CROATAN"

Mayflower Compact

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1629 - King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. Very good quality of life. Conditions were good if you were very religious and followed rules. It was established for a place for puritans to go. You had to be Puritan. Eventually puritans lost control because of religious dissenters.

Pequot War

1637 The Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed.

King Philip's War

1675 - A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.

joint-stock company

A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

First Thanksgiving

A feast organized by Governor Berkley at his plantation on the James River in Virginia on December 4, 1619 to thank God for saving Jamestown from disaster

Pocahontas

A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powahatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him; about 1595-1617; Pocahontas' brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native relations.

John Winthrop

As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.

Nathanial Bacon

Bacon was the leader and took over when Berkley wouldn't attack the Indians; Bacon was willing to lead not only against Indians but the govener too; This time was known as Bacon's rebellion. bacon murduered random groups of Indians died before he could do anything big

Powhatan

Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and father to Pocahontas. At the time of the English settlement of Jamestown in 1607, he was a friend to John Smith and John Rolfe. When Smith was captured by Indians, Powhatan left Smith's fate in the hands of his warriors. His daughter saved John Smith, and the Jamestown colony. Pocahontas and John Rolfe were wed, and there was a time of peace between the Indians and English until Powhatan's death.

puritans

English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.

Pilgrims

English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620

Oglethorpe

English general, colonial administrator, and philanthropist, who founded the colony of Georgia (1732) as a refuge for persecuted European Protestants and unemployed English debtors.

Roanoke

Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them. White didn't spend as much time looking as a normal person would

1619

First Africans arrive in Virginia

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

Roger Williams

He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.

John Rolfe

He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.

John Smith

Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter. Pocahontas was part of the ceramoney showing that the Indians could be as mean or nice.

First Africans brought to Virginia, 1619

Indentured slaves

Puritans vs. Separatists

The Puritans wanted to purify the Anglican Church whereas the Separatists wanted to leave and set an example for the English Church in America.

Jamestown

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia. The living conditions were brutal you were lucky if you didn't die. During starving time no one had food people were dying left and right. Some people even resorted to eating fellow colonists. Tobacco saved Jamestown. Jamestown was established to explore a route to the NW passage. Conditions with the Indians were aweful. Settlers looked for gold.

New Netherlands was renamed New York

To distinguish it from Pennsylvania colony

Which resource made Jamestown successful

Tobacco

Who settled Pennsylvania?

William Penn and the Quakers, no one wanted the Quakers and penn settled Pennsylvania for the Quakers

England established colonies in North America in the hopes of achieving

financial gain for investors

The puritans views and attitudes led them to promote the idea of

hard work for common goals

When Virginia became a colony controlled directly by King James, it became England's first

royal colony

New Netherlands

the dutch called this land claimed by Henry Hudson in New York this name. They wanted to trade. It eventually became New York.

What prevented the settlement at Jamestown from being successful at first

the settlers' attitudes and impracticality