Deals with some of the basics regarding the Jamestown colony and the New England Colonies

1. AN ENGLISH SETTLEMENT AT JAMESTOWN
Section 2.2 Guided Reading

2. JAMESTOWN
1. Who?
a) Who were the settlers?
 Settlers: English adventurers and soldiers
 Settlers: English and African indentured servants or
field laborers
 Settler: farmers
b) Who were the leaders?
 John Smith, John Rolfe, William Berkeley, Nathanial
Bacon
c) Who were their neighbors?
 the Powhatan

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2. What?
a) What type of colony was Jamestown at
first?
 the Virginia Company was a joint-stock company
– Charter Colony
 one that is formed as a business venture, receives a
charter from the king to start a business
b) What did it later become?
 eventually it became a Royal Colony

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3. When?
a) When was Jamestown settled?
 1607
b) When was the “starving time”?
 winter of 1609
 resulting from the Powhatan killing of colonist
livestock and destruction of farms, roughly 60 of
the 600 new colonists survived

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4. Why?
a) Why did the settlers go to Jamestown?
 gold
 experience adventure
 farm
 forced to go
b) Why did other support them?
 financial gain

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4. Why?
c) Why didn’t the settlers get along with their
neighbors?
 settlers’ appetite for land was unending
d) Why did Jamestown nearly fail?
 disease killed many settlers
 many were more interested in gold than hunting or
farming
 the Powhatan opposed the settlers and killed their
livestock

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5. Where?
a) Where was Jamestown?
 in Virginia, on a small peninsula on the James
River

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6. How?
a) How was Jamestown saved from failure?
 John Smith took over and forced the colonists to
work
 tobacco provided colonists with the money they
needed to build the colony
 Cash Crop
 agricultural product used mainly for selling instead of
using or eating

9. PURITAN NEW ENGLAND
Section 2.3 Guided Reading

10. NEW ENGLAND
Differences in religion: Puritans
believed the Church of England
needed to be purified
Puritans suffered religious
persecution
Some Puritans left England to
form colonies in America
1) Puritans vs. the Church of England

11. NEW ENGLAND
Differences in religious and
political beliefs: Williams believed
English settlers had to purchase
land from Native Americans
settlers should be allowed to
worship their own way without
government persecution
Williams fled Massachusetts
Bay and formed Providence
2) Puritan Leaders vs. Roger Sherman

12. NEW ENGLAND
Differences in religious and
political beliefs: Hutchinson taught
that believers did not need
ministers to interpret the Bible
Hutchinson was banished
from Massachusetts Bay
3) Puritan Leaders vs. Anne Hutchinson

13. NEW ENGLAND
Differences on views of land:
Native Americans viewed land a s
a shared commodity, colonists
believed in private property
colonial victory; the near
destruction of the Pequot
nation
4) The Pequot War

14. NEW ENGLAND
Native American resentment toward
Puritan laws and policies
colonial victory
the destruction of 16 colonial villages
death of 1/10 of military-age colonial
men
Native Americans suffered heavy
casualties, food shortages, and
disease
the end of Native American power in
Southeastern New England
5) King Philip’s War