When Old Worlds Collide:

							 English Colonization:
New England v. Virginia
Causes for English Colonization
 Fallof Spanish Armada in 1588 open
  North Atlantic to English expansion.
 Changes in English economy.
  – Rise of merchant class
  – Joint-stock companies
  – Surplus population in cities
Causes for English Colonization
 Protestant   Reformation
  – Anti-”Popish” believers (Puritans) felt
    that the Church of England was not
    Protestant enough in its beliefs and
    practices.
  – Persecution of Puritans, and Quakers led
    to conflict with religious and political
    authorities.
     Jamestown and Virginia
 The Virginia Company received
  charter from King James I in 1607.
 Goals
  – Gold and wealth
  – Convert Indians to Christianity
  – Find a passage to the Indies
John Smith’s Map of Virginia
     Jamestown and Virginia
 Early group suffered from laziness,
  starvation, and malaria.
 Saved by leadership of John Smith
  and tobacco planter John Rolfe.
 Legend of Pocahontas (Matoaka)
Portraits of Pocahontas
Jamestown Wattle and Daub house
                Tobacco
 Brought   capital and workers to
  Virginia
 Problems
  – Chained prosperity of Virginia to one
    crop.
  – Exhausted the soil.
  – Promoted large-acreage plantations
    which needed large amounts of cheap
    labor.
 Contributions of early Virginia
 Provided  model for economic
  investment in America.
 First representative self-government
  (House of Burgesses).
 Demand for slaves (first slaves sold
  by Dutch to settlers in 1619).
 Relationships with natives (good an
  bad)
      New England Colonies
            (Pilgrims) arrived at
 Separatists
 Plymouth in 1620.
  – Mayflower Compact: first document of
    self-government in America.
  – After difficult first winter (44 out of 102
    survived), survived under the leadership
    of Governor William Bradford.
     New England Colonies
 Puritans settled Massachusetts Bay
  in 1630 for religious reasons. (Great
  Puritan Migration: 1629-1640)
 Middle class
 Educated
 Fur traders, fishermen, and
  shipbuilders
 Bible Commonwealth: restricted to a
  male members of the Puritan church
Early Settlements Video