St.

Augustine, Florida
(New Spain, 1565)
First Permanent
Settlement in U.S.

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Spanish Armada
Defeated 1588

Philip II of Spain tries to

conquer England

EPIC FAIL

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England can now focus on

starting a permanent settlement

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

Named for Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen

Sir Walter Raleigh

Lost Colony at Roanoke (1589)

Insufficient Funds
Abandoned due to conflict with Spanish

Virginia
Colony
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England and the New World

National & Religious Rivalry with

European Opponents
Spreading Protestantism
The Social Crisis
Masterless Men -Hakluyt

The Coming of the English

Growth of Merchant Trade

Indentured Servants
Land and Liberty

Land = Independence

Religious Freedom

The Coming of the English

Englishmen and Indians

Well make ourselves at homewe are predestined to

bless this landand maybe you can just GET OUT OF
THE WAY.

The Transformation of Indian Life

Settling the Chesapeake

The Jamestown Colony

(1607-Virginia)
First Permanent ENGLISH
Settlement in U.S.

Initial groupmostly
gold-hungry DUDES.
John Smith -
You dont work
you dont eat!

Settling the Chesapeake

Starving Time (1609-1610)

Powhatan and Pocahontas
The Uprising of 1622

Settling the Chesapeake

John Rolfe and Brown Gold

Women and the Family
Headright System
House of Burgesses in 1619

Settling the Chesapeake

Virginia Co. sells Jamestown to English Crown - 1625

The Maryland Experiment - 1632
Proprietary Colony - Cecilius Calvert
He wanted a Feudal Domain
Joint-stock
(Corporate)

Royal

Proprietary

A corporation raises
capital for
settlement

The Crown
administers directly

Administered by
proprietor(s)

The New England Way

The Rise of Puritanism

Anglican Church was too Pope-ish / Catholic
John Calvin-Predestination / Damnation
Moral Liberty
Separatists (Pilgrims)
Mass. Governor John Winthrop
1620 - Mayflower Compact
@ Plymouth
*Squanto and the
1st Thanksgiving
A portrait of John Winthrop

The New England Way

The Great Migration - Mass. Bay Colony 1629

Merchants/FAMILIES
+20,000 immigrants in 10 yrs.

The Puritan Family

Male Authority-
absolute head of a home
Women-
avg. 7 child-births/divorce
was legal but Social and
Econ. Suicide for women
Dower-Pay

The New England Way

Government and Society in Massachusetts

Church and State = one in the same
Restrictive, Religiously-Based Laws
Some divisions along
what/how big of a
role the Church
should play.

New Englanders Divided

Roger Williams - 1635

Thomas Hooker - 1636

Separate Church and State=Banished from MassBC

Charged w/ new and dangerous opinions
Rhode Island-more democratic and
open to Jews, Religious dissenters

Connecticut

The Trials of
Anne Hutchinson - 1638

Charged with Sedition

Banished from MassBC

Roger Williams

New Englanders Divided

Puritans and Indians

The Pequot War -1637
The Half-Way
Covenant - 1662
More Lenient

An engraving from John Underhills News from America

Map 2.2 English Settlement in New England, ca. 1640

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