2-1: the thirteen colonies and the british empire i, 1607-1754 · 2-1: the thirteen colonies and...
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2-1: The Thirteen Colonies and
the British Empire I, 1607-1754
Early English Settlements
Roanoke Island
1587—Sir Walter Raleigh
Outer Banks, NC
Lost Colony
Jamestown
Virginia Company
Joint-stock (shareholders)
Primary goal—profit
Early Problems
Search for gold
“Starving time”
John Smith and
agricultural base
Transition to Royal
Colony
Plymouth
Pilgrims (Separatists)
Mayflower Compact
Crude form of
government
Majority rule
William Bradford
Massachusetts Bay
Puritans
Escape from religious restrictions and economic
recession as part of “Great Migration”
Small villages surrounded by farmland
Close relationship between church and state
Harvard and Yale—training ministers
John Winthrop
“City Upon a Hill”
Strict code of morality
Early Political Institutions
Structure
Governor and upper house
Lower house
Examples
VA House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
New England Town
Meetings
Limitations
Chesapeake Colonies
Importance of Tobacco
Maryland
Settlement
Act of Toleration
Protestant Revolt
Labor Shortages
Indentured servants
Headright System
Slavery
Bacon’s Rebellion
Development of New England
Religious Intolerance (MA)
Anne Hutchinson
Banished for challenging
Puritan gender roles
Roger Williams
Advanced cause of religious
toleration
Advocated separation of
church and state
Founding of Rhode Island
and Connecticut
Most liberal, free colonies
Development of New England
New Hampshire
Establishment as royal colony
Halfway Covenant
Loosening of control of the
church
New England Confederation
Mutual military alliance
King Philip’s War
Dissolution