Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
To settle new land
And to spread Christianity
Virginia Company
Joint stock company that settled Jamestown
Jamestown
The first successful English colony in North America
John Smith
Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author
Pocahontas
Relations with the Powhatan improved after a colonist, John Rolfe married the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas
John Rolfe
He was the one who married the Chiefs’s daughter, Pocahontas
Tobacco
It took a great deal of labor to plant, tend, and harvest the tobacco crop on which the colony depended
Baconβs Rebellion
π₯π₯
Plymouth Colony
π₯π₯π₯
Pilgrims
π€π€π₯
Mayflower
π₯π€π€
Mayflower Compact
π₯π€π€
William Bradford
β½οΈπ₯
Squanto and Samoset
π₯
Puritans
π₯
Massachusetts Bay Colony
π₯
John Winthrop
π₯
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
π₯
Salem Witch Trials
π₯
William Penn
He was a wealthy English Quaker and established Pennsylvania
Quakers
π₯
Pacifists
π₯
James Oglethorpeβs debtor and buffer colony
π€
First Great Awakening
π€