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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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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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