Establishment of the Colonies in
Early America
Native Americans
5000 B.C.
Great Early Groups
1200 B.C.
-The Pueblo people
100 A.D.
-The Mound Builders
Most Native Americans
Discoverers of the New World
1100 A.D.
-Norse seafarers
Christopher Columbus
Bahamas
Two Worlds Collide
New World Crops
1493
The Horse
The Ultimate Weapon: Germs
European diseases
Native American slaves
The Conquistadors
The four most famous
The Planting of English America
1585
Sir Walter Raleigh
1588
England’s population
1550
1600
Laws of Primogeniture
Joint-stock companies
Reasons for England’s colonization efforts
1606
Virginia Company of London
King James I
Charter
May 24, 1607
Chesapeake Bay
Jamestown
Hard Times-
1608
Captain John Smith
December 1608
Chief Powhatan
Pocahontas
Change in Leadership and Tactics
1610
Lord De La Warr
new policy
Virginia and Tobacco
John Rolf
1612
House of Burgesses
1624
Maryland
1636
Lord Baltimore
Maryland planted
freedom of worship
Act of Toleration
The Carolinas
1670
“slave codes”
King Charles II
close relationship
Rice
slaves
North Carolina
1712
colonists worked to establish
Georgia
1733
money from the King
“charity colony”
James Oglethorpe
The Northern Colonies
Religion
Puritans
Calvinist/Puritan beliefs
“The Elect”
signs of conversion
Separatists
Founding of Plymouth Colony
1608
“Dutchification”
early 1620
Mayflower
The Mayflower Compact
Winter 1620-1621
Fall 1621, “Thanksgiving”
The Plymouth Colony proved
Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony
1629
Massachusetts Bay Company
1630
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill”
Puritan Intolerance
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Roger Williams
Church of England
colony’s charter
civil government
1635
“Rogues Island” or “The Sewer”
The Seeds of Colonial Unity
1643
New England Confederation
Each colony had
The confederation was the first
Back in England
1660
Charles II restored to the throne
1684
1686
Dominion of New England
English Navigation Laws/Acts
The laws stated
“enumerated commodities”
European goods
American colonists
The head of the Dominion of New England
Andros restricted
Change in England
1689
William III
Andros attempted to flee
1694
Salutary Neglect
Dutch America
1623-1624
New Netherland
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
1664
New Amsterdam was renamed
Pennsylvania
The Quakers
William Penn
1684
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania was the best
Pennsylvania had
Indian tribes
1700
Other Quaker Settlements
New Jersey
Delaware