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Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay

Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay. Jamestown. Virginia Company, charter from James I 1606: 3 ships, 144 men Swampy, malaria mosquitoes Refused to do manual labor; tough lawmaking Only 53 of 200 survived through 1608 Free land for 7 years of work August 1609: 400 new settlers. Pocahantas.

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Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay

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  1. Jamestown vs Massachusetts Bay

  2. Jamestown • Virginia Company, charter from James I • 1606: 3 ships, 144 men • Swampy, malaria mosquitoes • Refused to do manual labor; tough lawmaking • Only 53 of 200 survived through 1608 • Free land for 7 years of work • August 1609: 400 new settlers

  3. Pocahantas The fake story The real story As you watch: Take notes on real story. What did Disney get right and wrong? Why?

  4. Jamestown • 1607: John Smith established trade with Powhatan Confederacy • Winter of 1609-1610: “Starving time” • Survival before profit • Plan A 1610: 6 hours per day required for all • Plan B 1614: Private cultivation: 1 month of work, 2.5 barrels of corn, keep the rest

  5. Jamestown • Profit 1614: John Rolfe • King James I called it: • “Vile weed • Harmful to the brain • Dangerous to the lungs • Black stinking fumes “baleful” to the nose”

  6. Jamestown • “Virginia” • Reforms: right to elect its own assembly • First general assembly July 30, 1619 • Governor • 6 councilors • 20 representatives (2 from each of 10 towns) called “burgesses” • House of Burgesses

  7. Jamestown • Headrights: buy a share of the company or pay for passage…get 50 acres • 50 more acres for each family member and servant over 15 years old • 1619 • first African “Christian servants” • 90 women

  8. Jamestown • By 1622, 4500 settlers had arrived • March 1622, attacked by Native Americans • 350 settlers killed • English court revoked Virginia Company’s charter • Virginia became a royal company

  9. Plymouth • Puritans: separatists broke from Anglican Church (“purify” religion of Catholicism) • James I imprisoned separatist leaders • One group fled in 1608 to Netherlands, called “Pilgrims” • Left Holland, joined other separatists in Eng, sailed to American • Mayflower, 1620: 102 passengers, 65 days, rough weather • Landed at Plymouth

  10. Time for the Mayflower Compact Primary Source Analysis!

  11. Thanks-giving • Built common house • Plague killed all but 50 settlers • Squanto: “directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish and [how] to procure other commodities.” • Peace treaty with Wampanoag people • Fun fact: President George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide “Thanksgiving” in America November 26, 1789: "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God"

  12. Puritans • Unemployment in England • John Winthrop and others held stock in Massachusetts Bay Company • March 1630, 11 ships, 900 settlers • 17 additional ships with 1,000 settlers brought later • “Great Migration”

  13. Church and State • Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony: • “Freemen” owned stock in company • Formed General Court to make laws • John Winthrop locked charter away; made own laws • Each congregation control own church, government supports church

  14. Church attendance required • Gambling, blasphemy, adultery, drunkenness all illegal • Heretics considered threat to the community

  15. John Winthrop: City on a Hill For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

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