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Early Settlements

Early Settlements. Jamestown & Plymouth. Jamestown. first permanent settlement in America Established in Virginia in 1607 Established to seek/use/exploit the area’s mineral resources Three ships carried 105 people http://www.apva.org/history/orig.html. Hardships in Jamestown.

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Early Settlements

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  1. Early Settlements • Jamestown • & • Plymouth

  2. Jamestown • first permanent settlement in America • Established in Virginia in 1607 • Established to seek/use/exploit the area’s mineral resources • Three ships carried 105 people • http://www.apva.org/history/orig.html

  3. Hardships in Jamestown • Swampy, low-lying site --impure drinking water, disease, malaria • Starving time - winter of 1609-1610 --forced to eat dogs, cats, rats, snakes, toadstools, horsehides, carcasses of dead men • 2/3 died from illness & malnutrition • No gold

  4. John Smith • Led Jamestown • Kept the colony together until 1608 --Jamestown reached its lowest point in the winter 1609-1610 • Famous connection to Pocahantas (myth - love story)

  5. How did it survive? • 1610 -more colonists return • Learned to grow tobacco & corn for export • Powhatan Native Americans helped

  6. House of Burgesses • 1619 - first meeting held • House of Burgesses - first representative legislative body in the New World

  7. Magna Carta • 1215 - English nobles forced King John to sign the Great Charter • Stated that the kings could not raise taxes without consulting the council of nobles and church leaders • This council would lead to the development of Parliament (House of Lords & House of Commons)

  8. Plymouth, MA • Pilgrims settle Plymouth in 1620 (Cape Cod) • Travelled on the Mayflower - 102 men, women & children

  9. Who were the Pilgrims? • Separatists - Protestants who wanted to separate from the Church of England (radical Puritans) • Early 1600’s this group of Pilgrims travelled from England to Leiden (Netherlands) • Netherlands - allowed to worship freely BUT wanted children to grow up English, not Dutch • Non-separatists also traveled to the New World • Won a charter to establish a colony in Virginia

  10. Mayflower Compact • November 11, 1620 - males signed the compact • Framework for governing the colony --united into a “civil body politic” of government • Agreed to abide by laws that insured the good of the colony • Beginning of government by the people in the New World

  11. Life in Plymouth • Early on they faced starvation BUT Native Americans helped them (Squanto) --showed them how to plant (Pokanokets - Massasoit) • Special harvest led to Thanksgiving • However, children of Pilgrims will fight with and kill Native Americans • Instilled fear in the Native Americans

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