VIRGINIA, MARYLAND,

& DELAWARE
By Amber Donaldson & Mnica Coronado
VIRGINIA
THE START OF VIRGINIA
-Virginia was the first part of the country permanently settled by the
English, who established Jamestown in 1607.
-In 1606, a joint-stock company, the Virginia Company, received a
charter from King James I that allowed it to establish a colony in the
New World.
-Not only did they plan to establish an English settlement in the
Americas, but they also planned to search for gold and silver, and to
search for a route to the Pacific Ocean that would allow them to trade
with the Orient.
-Setting sail in the late 1606, the 104 men landed in the Chesapeake
Bay, where Indians attacked them. The men soon chose a location on the
banks of the James River, named in honor of King James I on May 24th,
1607.
Jamestown
RELATIONS WITH THE
NATIVES
-The Algonquian Indians lived around the Chesapeake Bay
with their leader, Powhatan, who did not like intruders.
-Captain John Smith was kidnapped by Powhatan and
almost executed.
-The English and the Indians had a rough start because
the starving colonists would always steal food from them.
-Lord De La Warr grew even more strain between the
Indians and the English, ultimately cause the Anglo-Powhatan
War in 1614.
-Peace between both sides for a few years when John Rolfe
and Pocahontas got married.
-The Indians got mad again at the English and started a
second war.
-Peace treaty in 1646, but the Indians and English got even
more separated from each other.



Pocahontas stopping Captain John Smiths
execution:
Pocahontas and John Rolfes wedding:
Lord De La Warr: Anglo-Powhatan War:
RELIGION AT JAMESTOWN
The leaders of the Virginia Company
were members of the Church of English
and brought the established religion with
them at Jamestown.
In 1607, the settlers built the first real
church building and worshiped there until
January 1608, where it was destroyed by
fire and then rebuilt.
In 1610, Lord de la Warr made church
attendance mandatory according to some
laws and punishments were given if the
services were not attended.

Labor Source
Maryland
WHY WAS MARYLAND
CREATED?
Lord Baltimore was motivated both by the desire for profit and the
desire to create a refuge for Roman Catholics who were still being
persecuted in Protestant England.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord of Baltimore, founded
Maryland in 1632. Cecil's father, George Calvert
had received a royal charter for the land from
King Charles I. The new colony was named after
Henrietta Maria, the wife the king.
John Calvert
MARYLAND & NATIVE
AMERICAN RELATIONS
The native Americans in Colonial Maryland were very
unappreciated. The chief of the Potomac Indians welcomed the
settlers saying "We will eat at the same table; my followers will too go
to hunt for you; and we will all have things in common." Though the
Indians were acting for peace, king Charles I ordered that they be
eliminated. The colonization led to the scattering of tribes and loss of
Native American heritage.
In Maryland there was mostly
Protestants and Catholics, but
there were Jewish and Non-
Religious people there too.
Maryland then became
Anglican.
RELIGIONS IN MARYLAND

ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
The Coin of the Realm in Maryland was tobacco. Goods and
services were bartered for tobacco which was shipped to England and
sold. If you had tobacco, you had a source of income coming in as
people bought and sold tobacco crops and also sent tobacco to
England and got money in return..
LABOR IN MARYLAND
Because of the growth of tobacco farms and the increasing demand for it, Maryland created
the "HEADRIGHT SYSTEM." The leaders of each colony knew that labor was essential for
economic survival, so they provided incentives for planters to import workers. For each laborer
brought across the Atlantic, the master was rewarded with 50 acres of land. This system was used
by wealthy plantation aristocrats to increase their land holdings dramatically. In addition, of course,
they received the services of the workers for the duration of the indenture.
Indentured servants are typically defined as poor immigrants from England who, because they
could not pay to come to the American colonies, contracted out their labor services for a period
usually lasting about seven years in exchange for passage to the New World.
Delaware
WHY WAS DELAWARE
FOUNDED?
Peter Minuit was Dutch and formed New Sweden as part of New
Netherland. When Charles II, King of England gave his brother
James, the Duke of York, New Netherland, James demanded and
received its surrender. He renamed New Sweden to Delaware.
Named after Lord de la Warr
DELAWARE NATIVE
RELATIONS
When the Europeans arrived the Delawares taught
them many new things, and the Delawares learned
from the whites also. They both had different
lifestyles. Some European's understood the Indians and
treated them fairly; others cheated them and stole
their land. Indians defended themselves at first with
bows and arrows, but the Europeans had guns.
Thousands of Indians were killed in battle. Many
Europeans moved west and became a greater
threat to the Indians way of life.
RELIGION IN DELAWARE
Not dominated by a specific religion which gave way to religious
freedom for Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and others.
ECONOMICS IN DELAWARE
Exported agricultural products and natural resources. They were
also able to manufacture iron ore products such as plows, tools,
kettles, locks, nails and large blocks of iron which they exported to
England.
Delaware was often referred to as a breadbasket colony because it
grew so many crops, especially wheat. The wheat was ground into
flour in flour mills then shipped to England.
Note:
(Not colonial
money.
Current State
Coin)
LABOR
When the colonists first settled in what is now Delaware most of them came as
English indentured servants, of course later on there were African slaves. In the
early 1800's the majority of the African population in Delaware were free, though
there was not any official legislature declaring them free. Delaware remained in the
Union during the Civil War. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln pushed for the remaining
slave holders to be compensated in return of the freedom of the slaves, at the time
there were less than 1,800 slaves in Delaware (mostly in Sussex county) and in 1862
slavery was declared unlawful in all U.S. territories
GOVERNMENT IN
DELAWARE
James, the Duke of York, gave Delaware to William Penn in 1682
who said that he needed the land to secure his own colony of
Pennsylvania. At first the two colonies were joined and shared the
same legislative assembly. After 1701, Delaware was given the right to
its own assembly. However, both colonies shared the same governor.
It was not until 1776 that Delaware was declared separate from
Pennsylvania.