4.1
Pocahontas: diplomatic daughter of Wahunsonacock, married John Rolfe to solidify peaceful relations between the British and Wampanoag. Died 1617 in England
John Smith: made Jamestown work to eat, decreasing starvation and exposure deaths.
Bacon's Rebellion 1676: Nat Bacon led an army of former indentured servants to war, attacking the natives to obtain their land. Burned Jamestown after the governor protested his actions, died of a fever, 23 of his followers were hanged.
Jamestown (1607): English settlement, corner of a malarial swamp, entirely too close to the natives, nobles refused to work, starvation, exposure, failed gold mining, successful tobacco operation.
Powhatan: Wampanoag are part of this Native confederacy, neighbors of Jamestown.
John Rolfe: tobacco success with Jamestown, made the settlement economically viable, married
Pocahontas to temporarily have peaceful relations with the Powhatan.
Wahunsonacock: Pocahontas’ father, leader of the Wampanoag, died in 1618 in the Americas, had hot/cold war relations with the English settlers.
Headright System: English system rewarded rich men with large families that paid their way across with a land grant.
4.2
Puritans: Church of England, seek to fix, leave during economic downturn , receive land grant from the King, start their own hyper-religious colonies.
Mayflower 1620: drafted offshore before landing, renegotiated basic laws of man, one of the earliest “American” legal documents.
William Bradford: governor of the Plymouth colony, helped draft the Mayflower Compact.
Squanto: local native of Plymouth area, knew some English, helped them overcome the poor soil quality in the area.
4.3
Mass. Bay Charter/Company: Thomas Hooker: minister, father of American democracy.
The Fundamental Orders of CT 1639: CT democractic government, all men can vote not based on church membership.
Great Migration 1630's-1640's: tens of thousands of English left for the Americas (North and Caribbean) and happened because of a weak economy and religious persecution.
Salem Witch Trials and Giles Corey: “More Weight”, accused if you had something others’ wanted.
Anne Hutchinson: openly discussed religion in public, as a woman, claimed God spoke to people through other means than just the Bible, kicked out and went to Rhode Island.
John Winthrop: Governor of Mass. Bay Colony, 1630’s.
Roger Williams: wanted to form a secular state, criticized mistreatment of natives, formed Providence with the intention of tolerance and fair dealings with natives.
Mass. General Court 1644: bicameral legislative law making body for Massachusetts.
Rhode Island: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson ran here and set up communities of religious tolerance, Providence and Aquidneck.
4.4
Lord Baltimore's Charter 1632: founded Maryland from King Charles I, intended refuge for English Catholics.
Toleration Act of 1649: presented by Lord Baltimore, restriction on Christian’s religious rights is a crime, law of tolerance.
Carolina 1663: Charles II gave a charter for this land in 1663.
N/S Carolina 1712: the Carolina colonies split based upon differences in agriculture and society.
William Penn and the Quakers: protestant, Society of Friends, set up Pennsylvania in West New Jersey.
Oglethorpe's Shield 1733: Georgia Colony of Savannah, anti-plantation, no slavery, changes to large rice plantations. Intended to shield British from Spanish.
