The Beginning of

British America
UNIT TWO - Part One // Time Period 1607-1754
This unit focuses on the following key concepts:
1) Differences in imperial goals, cultures and North American physical environments
led English settlements to develop diverse social patterns.
2) Intercultural contact among other people groups including native groups, slaves,
and other European ethnicities intensified conflict and inevitably helped form a
distinct American Identity.

Read AMSCO - Chapter 2 pg. 24-31 in order to prepare

for Reading Quiz on Wednesday, Oct. 26th

Great Britain Defeats the

Spanish Armada in 1588
With the SPANISH OUT the
ENGLAND set their sights
on NORTH AMERICA

The Armada Portrait

of Queen Elizabeth I
- Sir Walter Raleigh (Lizs Bae)
-Lost Colony at Roanoke (1589)
- Insufficient Funds
- Abandoned - conflict with Spain

English Investment in N. Amer.

Rivalry with European Opponents

Spreading Protestantism
Religious Freedom and Dissenters
The Social Crisis - Masterless Men Hakluyt
Land = Liberty
Indentured Servants
Headright System
Growth of Merchant Trade

The Coming of the

Jamestown Colony (1607-Virginia) Settling Chesapeake
English
Bay Area
-First Permanent ENGLISH Settlement in U.S.
- Initial groupmostly gold-hungry DUDES.
- John Smith -You dont workyou dont eat!

Englishmen and Indians Different Perspectives on Land

Ownership
- English were basically saying Well make ourselves at homewe
are
predestined tobless this landand you can just GETOUT OFTHE WAY.
- The Transformation ofIndian Life

Settling the
Chesapeake

Jamestown was initially estab. by a Joint-Stock

Company
John Rolfe and Brown Gold Tobacco Wives
House of Burgesses in 1619 Representative Govt
Jamestown 20 First Africans to N. Amer.
Sold to the English Crown in 1624
Starving Time 1609-10 & the Powhatan
Uprising of 1622
Royal Colonies vs. Proprietary Colonies
Maryland Proprietary Colony (Attempt at Catholic
Colony)

The New England

Way

Rise of Puritanism
Anglican Church was too Pope-ish / Catholic vs. John CalvinPredestination
Separatists (Pilgrims) 1620 - Mayflower Compact @ Plymouth
-*Squanto and the1st Thanksgiving
- all New England economy focused around Furs, Fishing and
Lumber
Puritans City on a Hill- moderate dissent aim was to reform
John Winthrop - Massachusetts Bay Colony
- over 20,000 immigrants and Family Units
All in the name of Religious FREEDOM
Societal Structure
Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson
Separate Church and State=Banished!!
Faith over deeds=Banished!!
Dont walk & talk like us=Banished!!
Charged w/ new & dangerous opinions
Rhode Island and Connecticut
Half-Way Covenant -1662

Odd Numbered Groups will investigate and create a retelling of events and
causes and lasting effects of Bacons Rebellion.

Title your presentation Class Pd. Team # The Case of Bacons

Rebellions share with all members and
rnt.americanstudies@gmail.com

Identify the 5 Ws with at least TWO direct causes

The lasting lesson or effect this event had on Early American History

Suggested sources of information :

tinyurl.com/rnt-baconreb

and tinyurl.com/rnt-baconreb2

Even Numbered Groups will analysis two excerpts concerning King Philips
War and then create a retelling of events and causes and lasting effects of
King Philips War.

Title your presentation Class Pd. Team # The Case of King Philips
War share with all members and rnt.americanstudies@gmail.com

Identify the 5 Ws with at least TWO direct causes

The lasting lesson or effect this event had on Early American History

Source Document : tinyurl.com/rnt-kingphil