What were the early failures
and successes of British settlement in North America. (1607-1754)
Failures
Successes
Subtopic
Geographical impact
2.1 Virginia and the Chesapeake after
1607.
Southern Society--18th Century
Indentured Slaves wrere the lower of the landless
Plantion Owners protected themselves
Head right System allowed that if Plantion
Owners to bring a slaves or anyone over and the crown will give them 50 more acres.
Georgia
North Carolina
Allowed the rest of the relgions to live here.
South Carolina settled in 1670.
Rice became the cash crop and by 1710 the black
slaves out numbered the whites.
Exported Indians as Slaves from the West Indies
and New England.
Two regions in Virgina. Tidewater Region and
Piedmont.
Maryland was a place where Catholic's can
go to with out getting prosecuted.
If Christians went there they will get killed.
1619
Tobacco is a cash crop.
2.4 Traders in the Wilderness- Dutch and
Quaker New World Visions.
Pennsylvania
Promised Land, freedom religon, and representative
government land these generous land policies attracted many immgrants.
1677 Penn started a group purchased a huge tract
of land west New Jersey and North Maryland.
Delaware
New Jersey
1664 quaker settlement
1702, the two Jersey's were combined asa
royal colony.
New York
The Quarkers are a religous group that get to leave
England.
William Penn got granted land because the
King owed his family alot of money.
The Middle colonies where mixed and tolernated
religous.
New Netherland(New york)
New Amsterdam becomes the New york city.
1664 became an English colony
Dutch
2.3 Radicals- Pilgrims and Puritans
and a City on the Hill.(1620)
The Half-Way Convenant.
Purtisamn starts to weaken
Plymouth Colony decied to join the Masschuetts
Colony. They joined in 1691
The king decides to make his own colony the Masschuetts Colony.
Known for there fishing, fur trade, farming, and
ship building.
The king refused to give the Pilgrims a colony.
The Masschuetts colony soon becoms the most infulincal colony
Praying Towns were Towns made by England from
1646-1675. For Indiands to pratice Christianity.
During the English civil war the Purtians are forced
to leave England.
Pilgrims
Purtains
English Settlements in the New World
(Delayed)
English Civil War
Religious instability
They think stealing is better than exploration.
Why would English Settlements become
more successful than their Spanish Counterparts in the New world?
Luck
New business pratices (Joint Stock Company)
Techonlogy
Climate receptive to political
Early English Settlements
James revokes the Charter
James the first owns all of Virgina
The Investors lose all the money and get kicked
out.
Virginia became a royal colony
directly under his control.
Negative of Jamestown
1800 people only 1200 survived.
Tradegy struck.
famine, disease, war,with Amerindians.
1609- 400 settlers came to Virginia and only
600 survived.
Postive of James Town
Roanoke
1607,1587-117
John White
Govenor of Virginia(1587)
1509- He came back and no one was there.
Native Tribe (Croatan Indians)
Sagadohoc
Founded in 1607
James Town
John Smith
John Rolfe
Was founded in 1607
Along the Coast line of Virginia.
