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CHAPTER XX Chapter Title66
Why It Matters
Colonial Settlement
1587ndash1770
Pewter pitcher Plymouth plantation
Signing the Mayflower Compact by
Edward Percy Moran
As you study Unit 2 you will learnthat in the 1600s and 1700s the Eng-
lish established colonies in the Ameri-casmdashsome for profit and others by
religious groups seeking freedom Intime a distinctly new American society
emerged
Primary Sources LibrarySee pages 960ndash961 for primary source
readings to accompany Unit 2 Use the American History
Primary Source Document LibraryCD-ROM to find additional primary
sources about the European colonies
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ldquoThe Indians broughtus great store both
of Corne and breadready made rdquo
mdash John Smith 1608
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ColonialAmerica
1587ndash1770Why It Matters
The early North American colonies were a meeting place of cultures The Europeans who
settled these colonies included Protestants Catholics and Jews
The Impact TodayThe colonies influenced values and beliefs many Americans cherish today For example
bull Many people still come to the Americas in search of economic opportunity and religious
freedom
bull Representative government remains an important part of the American political system
The American Journey Video The chapter 3 video ldquoThe Lost Colonyrdquoexamines the colony of Roanoke and how conditions were much harsher than settlerswere led to believe
1588bull England defeats
Spanish Armada
c 1605bull Shakespeare
writes King Lear
1630 bull Puritans begin settling
Massachusetts Bay
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
1550 1600 1650
1620bull Pilgrims land
at Plymouth Rock
1660bull King Charles II is
restored to theEnglish throne
1607bull English establish first
permanent settlementat Jamestown
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ColonialAmerica
1587ndash1770Why It Matters
The early North American colonies were a meeting place of cultures The Europeans who
settled these colonies included Protestants Catholics and Jews
The Impact TodayThe colonies influenced values and beliefs many Americans cherish today For example
bull Many people still come to the Americas in search of economic opportunity and religious
freedom
bull Representative government remains an important part of the American political system
The American Journey Video The chapter 3 video ldquoThe Lost Colonyrdquoexamines the colony of Roanoke and how conditions were much harsher than settlerswere led to believe
1588bull England defeats
Spanish Armada
c 1605bull Shakespeare
writes King Lear
1630 bull Puritans begin settling
Massachusetts Bay
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
1550 1600 1650
1620bull Pilgrims land
at Plymouth Rock
1660bull King Charles II is
restored to theEnglish throne
1607bull English establish first
permanent settlementat Jamestown
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1718bull French establish port
of New Orleans
1769bull Mission of San
Diego founded
1670bull Alafin Ajagbo founds
Oyo Empire in Nigeria
1702bull England and
France go to war
Pilgrims Going to Church by George Boughton George Boughton paintedmany scenes about American colonial life
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
1700 1750
1763bull British tighten enforcement
of Navigation Acts HISTORY
Chapter OverviewVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 3mdash Chapter Overviews to pre-view chapter information
1675bull King Philiprsquos
War begins
The Thirteen Colonies
Northern
Middle
Southern
Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Connecticut New York Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
12
Step 1 Collect 7 sheets of paper and placethem about inch apart
Comparison Study Foldable When yougroup facts into categories it is easier to makecomparisons Make this foldable to compareand contrast the 13 colonies and their regions
Reading and Writing As you read write whatyou learn about each of the 13 colonies undereach tab and compare the colonies
Step 2 Fold up the bottom edges of the paperto form 14 tabs
Step 3 When all the tabs are the same sizecrease the paper to hold the tabs in place andstaple the sheets together Label each tab withthe name of a colony and color-code each region
Keep theedges straight
Stapletogether along
the fold
This makesall tabs thesame size
1583Sir Humphrey Gilbertclaims Newfoundlandfor Queen Elizabeth
c 1590Settlers of RoanokeIsland vanish
1607Colonists settleat Jamestown
1619House of Burgessesmeets in Jamestown
Main IdeaJamestown became the first success-fully established English colony inNorth America
Key Termscharter joint-stock companyburgesses
Reading StrategyOrganizing Information As you readSection 1 re-create the diagrambelow and describe the economy andgovernment of Jamestown
Read to Learnbull what crop saved the people of
Jamestownbull how the colonists received political
rights
Section ThemeEconomic Factors Many settlers jour-neyed to America with the hope ofmaking a fortune
Early EnglishSettlements
In the summer of 1588 Spanish warships sailed toward the coast of England KingPhilip II of Spain had sent the armada or war fleet of 132 ships to invade EnglandWith 30000 troops and 2400 guns the Spanish Armada was the mightiest naval forcethe world had ever seen Yet the smaller swifter English ships won the battle TheSpanish Armada fled north to Scotland where violent storms destroyed and scatteredthe fleet Only about one-half of the Spanish ships straggled home
England in AmericaEngland and Spain had been heading toward war for years Trading rivalry
and religious differences divided the two countries King Philip II who ruledSpain from 1556 to 1598 was a powerful monarch and a strong defender of theCatholic faith He wanted to put a Catholic ruler on the throne of England andbring the country back to the Catholic Church King Philip did not considerQueen Elizabeth a Protestant the rightful ruler of England
English soldierrsquos helmet Jamestown
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Jamestown Description
Economy
Government
1580 1590 1600 1610 1620Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
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Attacks on Spanish ships and ports by suchEnglish adventurers as Sir Francis Drakeangered Philip He thought that Queen Eliza-beth should punish Drake for his raids Insteadshe honored Drake with a knighthood Philipsent the Spanish Armada to conquer Englandmdashbut it failed completely
Although war between England and Spaincontinued until 1604 the defeat of the armadamarked the end of Spanish control of the seasNow the way was clear for England and othernations to start colonies in North America
The Lost Colony of RoanokeThe English had made several attempts to
establish a base on the other side of the Atlanticbefore their victory over Spain In 1583 SirHumphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland forQueen Elizabeth Then he sailed south along thecoast looking for a place to establish a colonyBefore finding a site he died at sea
The following year Queen Elizabeth gave SirWalter Raleigh the right to claim land in NorthAmerica Raleigh sent an expedition to look for agood place to settle His scouts returned with anenthusiastic report of Roanoke Island off thecoast of present-day North Carolina
In 1585 Raleigh sent about 100 men to settleon Roanoke Island After a difficult winter onthe island the unhappy colonists decided toreturn to England In 1587 Raleigh tried againsending 91 men 17 women and 9 children toRoanoke John White a mapmaker and artistled the group Shortly after arriving on theisland Whitersquos daughter gave birth This babynamed Virginia Dare was the first English childborn in North America White explored the areaand drew pictures of what he saw He and otherexplorers described the towns of the NativeAmericans who lived in the area
ldquoTheir towns are small and few a villagemay contain but ten or twelve housesmdashsomeperhaps as many as twenty rdquo
The new settlers began building a colonyThey needed many supplies however andWhite sailed to England for the supplies and to
recruit more settlers Although he had hoped tobe back within a few months the war with Spaindelayed his return for nearly three years
When White finally returned to Roanoke hefound it deserted The only clue to the fate ofthe settlers was the word Croatoan carved on agatepost White thought the colonists musthave gone to Croatoan Island about 50 miles tothe south Bad weather kept White from inves-tigating The Roanoke colonists were neverseen again
Describing Why did Raleigh chooseRoanoke as the site for the colony
Jamestown SettlementRoanoke was Sir Walter Raleighrsquos last attempt
to establish a colony For a time his failure dis-couraged others from planning English coloniesin North America However the idea emergedagain in 1606 Several groups of merchantssought charters the right to organize settle-ments in an area from King James I
The Virginia CompanyOne group of merchants the Virginia Com-
pany of London received a charter to ldquomakehabitation into that part of America com-monly called Virginiardquo The Virginia Companywas a joint-stock company Investors boughtstock or part ownership in the company inreturn for a share of its future profits
The company acted quickly In December1606 it sent 144 settlers in 3 ships to build a newcolony in North America The settlers were sup-posed to look for gold and attempt to establishtrade in fish and furs Forty of them died duringthe voyage
In April 1607 the ships entered ChesapeakeBay and then sailed up a river flowing into thebay The colonists named the river the James andtheir new settlement Jamestown to honor theirking The settlers built Jamestown on a penin-sula so they could defend it from attack The sitehad major drawbacks however The swampyland swarmed with mosquitoes that carried dis-ease Jamestown also lacked good farmland
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The colonists faced more hardships over thenext several months Many of them were notaccustomed to hard labor Because the Londoninvestors expected a quick profit from theircolony the settlers searched for gold and silverwhen they should have been growing food Inaddition disease and hunger took a huge toll onthe colonists By spring 1608 when ships arrivedwith supplies and more settlers only 38 of theJamestown colonists remained alive
Captain John SmithGoverning Jamestown was perhaps the
biggest obstacle the colonists faced The colonysurvived its first two years because of 27-year-old Captain John Smith an experienced soldierand explorer Smith forced the settlers to workexplored the area and managed to get corn from
the local Native Americans led byChief Powhatan In August 1609400 new settlers arrived Twomonths later John Smith returnedto England Without strong leader-ship the colony could not feed somany people The winter of1609ndash1610 became known as ldquothestarving timerdquo Fighting broke outwith the Native Americans Whenmore settlers arrived in the springthey found only 60 survivors
EconomicsFarming the Land
Although the Virginia colonistsdid not find any gold or silver theydid discover another way to makemoney for the investors Onecolonist John Rolfe learned togrow a type of tobacco using seedsfrom the West Indies The firstcrop was sold in England in 1614
Soon planters all along the James River wereraising tobacco and the colony of Virginiabegan to prosper and grow Relations with theNative Americans also improved after Rolfemarried Pocahontas the daughter of ChiefPowhatan
In 1614 some of the colonists were allowed torent plots of land Most of what they grew ontheir plots was their own This move toward pri-vate ownership encouraged the colonists togrow food crops to sellmdashand work harder Oneof the colonists explained that the colonists oftenavoided work when
ldquoour people were fedout of the common storeand labored jointlytogetherrdquo
Now that the colonistscould farm their ownland and operate for profitin a competitive systemthey made greater efforts tosucceed
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Many Native American groups lived near the first English settle-ments in the late 1500s and early 1600s1 Location Which colony was located farthest north2 Location Which Native American groups lived nearest to
the Jamestown colonists
Jamestown 1607Adults 96
Children 4
Plymouth 1620Adults 70
Children 30
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
Pocahontas
The First English Settlements
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Private land ownership was expanded in1618 All the colonists who had paid their ownway to America were granted 100 acres of landIn order to attract more colonists the companygave a land grant called a headright of 50 acresto those who paid their own way A settler alsoreceived 50 acres for each family member over15 years of age and for each servant brought toVirginia This system convinced thousands ofpeople to move to Virginia
CitizenshipRepresentative Government
At first nearly all of Jamestownrsquos settlerswere men They worked for the Virginia Com-pany and lived under strict rules As thecolony grew the settlers complained abouttaking orders from the Virginia Company inLondon In 1619 the company agreed to let thecolonists have some say in their governmentTen towns in the colony each sent two repre-sentatives called burgesses to an assembly Theassembly had the right to make local laws forthe colony On July 30 1619 the House ofBurgesses met for the first time in a church inJamestown
New Arrivals in JamestownIn 1619 the Virginia Company sent 90 women
to Jamestown As a company report noted ldquoTheplantation can never flourish till families be
planted and the respect of wives and childrenfix the people on the soilrdquo Colonists whowanted to marry one of the women had to pay afee of 120 pounds of tobacco Men still outnum-bered women in the colony but marriage andchildren became a part of life in Virginia
A Dutch ship brought another group of new-comers to Jamestown in 1619mdashtwenty Africanswho were sold to Virginia planters to labor inthe tobacco fields These first Africans may havecome as servantsmdashengaged to work for a setperiod of timemdashrather than as slaves
Until about 1640 some African laborers inJamestown were free and even owned propertyWilliam Tucker the first African American bornin the American colonies was a free man In theyears to follow however many more shiploadsof Africans would arrive in North America andthose unwilling passengers would be sold asslaves Slavery was first recognized in Virginialaw in the 1660s
In the early 1620s the Virginia Companyfaced financial troubles The company hadpoured all its money into Jamestown but littleprofit was returned The colony also suffered an attack by the Native Americans In 1624 King James canceled the companyrsquos charter andmade Jamestown the first royal colony for Eng-land in America
Analyzing Why was the House ofBurgesses important
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Write a short paragraphin which you use the following keyterms charter burgesses joint-stock company
2 Reviewing Facts Why did the Vir-ginia Company establish settlementsin North America
Reviewing Themes
3 Economic Factors What economicactivity helped save the Jamestownsettlement
Critical Thinking
4 Making Inferences Why do youthink the king of England let a groupof merchants try to establish a colonyin North America
5 Determining Cause and EffectRe-create the diagram below and listtwo effects of Jamestownrsquos growth
Analyzing Visuals
6 Geography Skills Study the mapand graphs on page 72 What per-centage of settlers in Plymouth werechildren
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America 73
Geography Create a poster toattract early colonists to the areawhere you live Focus on the loca-tion as well as natural features inyour area such as good farmlandwaterways and mineral resources
Growth of Jamestown
Private land ownership was expanded in1618 All the colonists who had paid their ownway to America were granted 100 acres of landIn order to attract more colonists the companygave a land grant called a headright of 50 acresto those who paid their own way A settler alsoreceived 50 acres for each family member over15 years of age and for each servant brought toVirginia This system convinced thousands ofpeople to move to Virginia
CitizenshipRepresentative Government
At first nearly all of Jamestownrsquos settlerswere men They worked for the Virginia Com-pany and lived under strict rules As thecolony grew the settlers complained abouttaking orders from the Virginia Company inLondon In 1619 the company agreed to let thecolonists have some say in their governmentTen towns in the colony each sent two repre-sentatives called burgesses to an assembly Theassembly had the right to make local laws forthe colony On July 30 1619 the House ofBurgesses met for the first time in a church inJamestown
New Arrivals in JamestownIn 1619 the Virginia Company sent 90 women
to Jamestown As a company report noted ldquoTheplantation can never flourish till families be
planted and the respect of wives and childrenfix the people on the soilrdquo Colonists whowanted to marry one of the women had to pay afee of 120 pounds of tobacco Men still outnum-bered women in the colony but marriage andchildren became a part of life in Virginia
A Dutch ship brought another group of new-comers to Jamestown in 1619mdashtwenty Africanswho were sold to Virginia planters to labor inthe tobacco fields These first Africans may havecome as servantsmdashengaged to work for a setperiod of timemdashrather than as slaves
Until about 1640 some African laborers inJamestown were free and even owned propertyWilliam Tucker the first African American bornin the American colonies was a free man In theyears to follow however many more shiploadsof Africans would arrive in North America andthose unwilling passengers would be sold asslaves Slavery was first recognized in Virginialaw in the 1660s
In the early 1620s the Virginia Companyfaced financial troubles The company hadpoured all its money into Jamestown but littleprofit was returned The colony also suffered an attack by the Native Americans In 1624 King James canceled the companyrsquos charter andmade Jamestown the first royal colony for Eng-land in America
Analyzing Why was the House ofBurgesses important
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Write a short paragraphin which you use the following keyterms charter burgesses joint-stock company
2 Reviewing Facts Why did the Vir-ginia Company establish settlementsin North America
Reviewing Themes
3 Economic Factors What economicactivity helped save the Jamestownsettlement
Critical Thinking
4 Making Inferences Why do youthink the king of England let a groupof merchants try to establish a colonyin North America
5 Determining Cause and EffectRe-create the diagram below and listtwo effects of Jamestownrsquos growth
Analyzing Visuals
6 Geography Skills Study the mapand graphs on page 72 What per-centage of settlers in Plymouth werechildren
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America 73
Geography Create a poster toattract early colonists to the areawhere you live Focus on the loca-tion as well as natural features inyour area such as good farmlandwaterways and mineral resources
Growth of Jamestown
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1 Compare the dwellings of the colonists and theNative Americans
2 How did the introduction of tobacco affect the development of the colony
L E A R N I N G f r o m G E O G R A P H Y
FOOTHOLD IN THENEW WORLDJAMESTOWN THE FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISHCOLONY In the spring of 1607 three ships carrying morethan a hundred English settlers sailed into the ChesapeakeBay to establish a colony and find gold The settlers built afort on a marshy island in the James River and named it inhonor of King James I
THE EXPEDITIONS
Captain John Smith emerged as a leader of the groupAn avid explorer he led four expeditions in the area
bull Shortly after arriving he and Captain Christopher Newportsailed up the James River to search for gold Powhatanrsquosfollowers made them turn back at the falls
bull In December 1607 Smith and a small band of settlers set out looking for gold and food along the ChickahominyRiver According to Smith he was captured and about to beclubbed to death by Powhatanrsquos followers when Pocahontas(the chief rsquos daughter) saved him
bull In 1608 Smith headed up two voyages to explore the north-ern reaches of Chesapeake Bay He searched futilely forgold and an outlet to the Pacific Ocean
THE SETTLEMENT
The colonists endured many terrible hardships Bad water disease starvation and conflict with the Native Americans took a heavy toll By early 1608 only 38 hardysouls remained alive
Settlers learned to grow crops in the new land Whentobacco from the West Indies was introduced it became a commercial success and guaranteed Jamestownrsquos future
ampGEOGRAPHY HISTORY
The Native Americanstaught the settlers to cultivate nativecrops such as cornbeans and squashCorn quickly becamethe staple food
Jamestown
Expeditions
Native American settlement
May 1607
December 1607 ndash January 1608
January ndash July 1608
Powhatans territory
July ndash September 1608
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The first English settlers con-structed simple timber-framehouses with mud walls andthatched roofs
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AFRICA
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JamestownMay 1607
EnglandDecember 1606
0 1000 miles
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75
1620Pilgrims land at Plymouth
1630Puritans settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1636Thomas Hookerfounds Hartford
1638Anne Hutchinsonfounds Portsmouth
Main IdeaSettlers begin to form the New Eng-land Colonies
Key Termsdissent persecute Puritan Separatist Pilgrim MayflowerCompact toleration
Reading StrategyClassifying Information As you readSection 2 re-create the diagrambelow and explain why differentcolonies in New England were settled
Read to Learnbull why the Pilgrims and the Puritans
came to Americabull how the Connecticut Rhode Island
and New Hampshire colonies began
Section ThemeCivic Rights and ResponsibilitiesPuritan and Pilgrim colonists settled inAmerica in search of religious freedom
New EnglandColonies
76 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
Colony Reasons the colony was settled
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Shoes Plymouth Colony
The young man looked around at the other passengers aboard the Mayflower Heand the other passengers sailed to the new world not knowing what they would findThey had muskets but knew little about shooting They planned to fish but knew noth-ing about fishing They had hoped to settle in Virginia but instead landed in New Eng-land without enough supplies to last the winter The only thing these people had plentyof was courage They would need it
Religious FreedomUnlike the Jamestown settlers the next wave of colonists would arrive in
search of religious freedom England had been a Protestant country since 1534when King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formedthe Anglican Church Not everyone in England was happy with the new churchhowever Many people dissentedmdashthey disagreed with the beliefs or practices ofthe Anglicans English Catholics for example still considered the pope the headof the church and they were often persecuted or treated harshly for that reason
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1620 1630 1640
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RHODEISLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
CONNECTICUT
Portsmouth
Salem
Boston
Plymouth
Newport
NewHaven
Area claimedby New Yorkand NewHampshire
77CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
At the same time some Protestants wanted tochangemdashor reformmdashthe Anglican Church whileothers wanted to break away from it altogetherThe Protestants who wanted to reform the Angli-can Church were called Puritans Those whowanted to leave and set up their own churcheswere known as Separatists
The Separatists were persecuted in Englandand some fled to the Netherlands Though theyfound religious freedom there the Separatists had difficulty finding work They also worriedthat their children were losing their religiousvalues and their English way of life
The Pilgrimsrsquo JourneySome Separatists in the Netherlands made an
arrangement with the Virginia Company TheSeparatists could settle in Virginia and practicetheir religion freely In return they would givethe company a share of any profits they made
The Separatists considered themselves Pilgrims because their journey had a religiouspurpose Only 35 of the 102 passengers whoboarded the Mayflower in September 1620 werePilgrims The others were called ldquostrangersrdquoThey were common peoplemdashservants crafts-people and poor farmersmdashwho hoped to find abetter life in America Because Pilgrim beliefsshaped life in the Plymouth colony however allthe early settlers are usually called Pilgrims
The Mayflower CompactThe Mayflowerrsquos passengers planned to settle
in the Virginia colony The first land they sightedwas Cape Cod well north of their targetBecause it was November and winter was fastapproaching the colonists decided to dropanchor in Cape Cod Bay They went ashore on acold bleak day in December at a place calledPlymouth William Bradford their leader andhistorian reported that ldquoall things stared uponthem with a weather-beaten facerdquo
Plymouth was outside the territory of the Vir-ginia Company and its laws Before goingashore the Pilgrims drew up a formal documentcalled the Mayflower Compact The compactpledged their loyalty to England and declaredtheir intention of forming ldquoa civil body politic
The Atlantic waters and thick forests proved valuable for fishing and shipbuilding in New England1 Region What were the four New England Colonies2 Analyzing Information What did Connecticut
produce
Grain
Cattle
Lumber
Fish
Whales
Furs
Ships
Iron
Rum
Products
for our better ordering and preservationrdquo Thesigners also promised to obey the laws passedldquofor the general good of the colonyrdquo TheMayflower Compact was a necessary step in thedevelopment of representative government inAmerica (See page 986 of the Appendix for the entire text of
the Mayflower Compact)
Help From the Native AmericansTheir first winter in America almost half
the Pilgrims died of malnutrition disease and
The New EnglandColonies
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cold In the spring a few Native Americansapproached the settlement Two of themSquanto and Samoset befriended the colonistsSquanto was a Pawtuxet who had been kid-napped to Europe and had learned English
Squanto and Samoset showed the Pilgrimshow to grow corn beans and pumpkins andwhere to hunt and fish Without their help thePilgrims might not have survived Squanto and Samoset also helped the Pilgrims make atreaty with the Wampanoag people who lived in the area Massasoit a Wampanoag leadersigned a treaty with the Pilgrims in March 1621and the two groups lived in harmony
Summarizing Why was theMayflower Compact an important step toward representa-tive government
New SettlementsIn 1625 the English throne passed to Charles I
Charles objected to the Puritansrsquo calls for reformin the Anglican Church and persecution of Puri-tans increased again Some Puritans looked for away to leave England
In 1629 a group of Puritans formed the Mas-sachusetts Bay Company and received a royalcharter to establish a colony north of PlymouthThis was the Puritansrsquo chance to create a newsociety in Americamdasha society based on theBible
The company chose a well-educated Puritannamed John Winthrop to be the colonyrsquos gover-nor In 1630 Winthrop led about 900 menwomen and children to Massachusetts BayMost of them settled in a place they called Boston
78 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
First Thanksgiving by Jennie A Brownscombe
The First Thanksgiving
In the autumn of 1621 the Pilgrims invited theNative Americans to celebrate the peace betweenthem After the struggle through the first winter thePilgrims also felt relieved to be raising food Duringthe feast the Pilgrims thanked God for the harvestand for their survival
Who took part About 50 men women and chil-dren colonists and 90 Wampanoag Native Americanstook part in the three-day feast
What did they do Dancing singing and playinggames were part of the celebration The Wampanoagdemonstrated their skills with the bow and arrow
What did they eat They most likely ate wild fowlduck and turkey shot by the colonists and deer pro-vided by the Wampanoag
When was it held Exactly when the festival tookplace is uncertain but it is believed the celebrationoccurred sometime between September 21 andNovember 9
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Anne Hutchinson cameto Massachusetts withher husband in 1634 Shebegan questioning thereligious authority of thecolonyrsquos ministers
As Hutchinson gainedfollowers she was seen asa danger to the colonyrsquos
stability In 1637 theMassachusetts leadersput her on trial for speak-ing false ideas
Hutchinson defendedherself well but sheclaimed God spoke to herdirectly This disagreedwith Puritan beliefs that
God spoke only throughthe Bible Her accusersfound her guilty andordered her to leave thecolony With her familyand some followersHutchinson moved toRhode Island
79CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
CitizenshipGrowth and Government
During the 1630s more than 15000 Puritansjourneyed to Massachusetts to escape religiouspersecution and economic hard times in Eng-land This movement of people became knownas the Great Migration
At first John Winthrop and his assistantsmade the colonyrsquos laws They were chosen bythe General Court which was made up ofthe colonyrsquos stockholders In 1634 settlersdemanded a larger role in the government TheGeneral Court became an elected assemblyAdult male church members were allowed tovote for the governor and for their townrsquos repre-sentatives to the General Court In later yearsthey also had to own property to vote
The Puritans came to America to put theirreligious beliefs into practice The Puritans hadlittle tolerationmdashthey criticized or persecutedpeople who held other religious views This lackof toleration led to the creation of new colonies
Connecticut and Rhode IslandThe fertile Connecticut River valley south of
Massachusetts was much better for farming
than was the stony soil around Boston In the1630s colonists began to settle in this area
A minister named Thomas Hooker becamedissatisfied with Massachusetts He did not likethe way that Winthrop and the other Puritanleaders ran the colony In 1636 Hooker led hiscongregation through the wilderness to Con-necticut where he founded the town of Hart-ford Three years later Hartford and two othertowns Windsor and Wethersfield agreed toform a colony They adopted a plan of govern-ment called the Fundamental Orders of Con-necticut This was the first written constitutionin America and it described the organization ofrepresentative government in detail
Good land drew colonists to Connecticut butRhode Island was settled by colonists who wereforced out of Massachusetts The first of these wasRoger Williams a minister Williams felt that peo-ple should not be persecuted for their religiouspractices In his view the government should notforce people to worship in a certain way Williamsalso believed it was wrong for settlers to take landaway from the Native Americans
The ideas of Roger Williams caused Massachu-setts leaders to banish him in 1635 He tookrefuge with the Narraganset people who later
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sold Williams land where he founded the town ofProvidence Williams received a charter in 1644for a colony east of Connecticut called RhodeIsland and Providence Plantations With its pol-icy of religious toleration Rhode Island became asafe place for dissenters It was the first place inAmerica where people of all faithsmdashincludingJewsmdashcould worship freely
Others followed Williamsrsquos example formingcolonies where they could worship as theypleased In 1638 John Wheelwright led a group ofdissidents from Massachusetts to the north Theyfounded the town of Exeter in New HampshireThe same year a group of Puritans settled Hamp-ton The colony of New Hampshire became fullyindependent of Massachusetts in 1679
Conflict With Native AmericansNative Americans traded with the settlers
exchanging furs for goods such as iron potsblankets and guns In Virginia the colonists hadfrequent encounters with the many tribes of thePowhatan confederacy In New England the set-tlers met the Wampanoags Narragansets andother groups
Conflicts arose however Usually settlersmoved onto Native American lands withoutpermission or payment Throughout the colo-nial period English settlers and Native Ameri-cans competed fiercely for control of the land
In 1636 war brokeout between the settlersand the Pequot peopleAfter two traders werekilled in Pequot terri-tory Massachusetts senttroops to punish thePequot The Pequotthen attacked a town inConnecticut killing nine people In May 1637troops from Connecticut attacked the main Pequotfort with the help of the Narraganset people Theyburned the fort killing hundreds
In 1675 New England went to war against theWampanoag people and their allies Metacometthe Wampanoag chief was known to settlers asKing Philip He wanted to stop the settlers frommoving onto Native American lands The warbegan after settlers executed three Wampanoagsfor murder Metacometrsquos forces attacked townsacross the region killing hundreds of people
The settlers and their Native American alliesfought back King Philiprsquos War as the conflict wascalled ended in defeat for the Wampanoag andtheir allies The war destroyed the power of theNative Americans in New England leaving thecolonists free to expand their settlements
Evaluating Describe the signifi-cance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
80 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
The colonists interact with the Native Americans
HISTORY
Student Web ActivityVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 3mdashStudent Web Activitiesfor an activity on KingPhiliprsquos War
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Write a short paragraphin which you use the following termsdissent persecute Puritan Separatist Pilgrim MayflowerCompact toleration
2 Reviewing Facts Identify the rea-sons why the Separatists left Europefor the Americas
Reviewing Themes
3 Civic Rights and ResponsibilitiesWhat freedom did Rhode Island offerthat other colonies did not
Critical Thinking
4 Comparing What did the MayflowerCompact and the FundamentalOrders of Connecticut have in common
5 Determining Cause and EffectRe-create the diagram below anddescribe the effects as colonistsinteracted with Native Americans
Analyzing Maps
6 Geography Skills Study the map on page 77 What products camefrom New Hampshire
Music Create a song that the Pilgrimsmight have sung as they crossed theAtlantic on the Mayflower Create thelyrics for the song by using what youhave learned about why the Pilgrimssailed to New England Teach yoursong to your class
sold Williams land where he founded the town ofProvidence Williams received a charter in 1644for a colony east of Connecticut called RhodeIsland and Providence Plantations With its pol-icy of religious toleration Rhode Island became asafe place for dissenters It was the first place inAmerica where people of all faithsmdashincludingJewsmdashcould worship freely
Others followed Williamsrsquos example formingcolonies where they could worship as theypleased In 1638 John Wheelwright led a group ofdissidents from Massachusetts to the north Theyfounded the town of Exeter in New HampshireThe same year a group of Puritans settled Hamp-ton The colony of New Hampshire became fullyindependent of Massachusetts in 1679
Conflict With Native AmericansNative Americans traded with the settlers
exchanging furs for goods such as iron potsblankets and guns In Virginia the colonists hadfrequent encounters with the many tribes of thePowhatan confederacy In New England the set-tlers met the Wampanoags Narragansets andother groups
Conflicts arose however Usually settlersmoved onto Native American lands withoutpermission or payment Throughout the colo-nial period English settlers and Native Ameri-cans competed fiercely for control of the land
In 1636 war brokeout between the settlersand the Pequot peopleAfter two traders werekilled in Pequot terri-tory Massachusetts senttroops to punish thePequot The Pequotthen attacked a town inConnecticut killing nine people In May 1637troops from Connecticut attacked the main Pequotfort with the help of the Narraganset people Theyburned the fort killing hundreds
In 1675 New England went to war against theWampanoag people and their allies Metacometthe Wampanoag chief was known to settlers asKing Philip He wanted to stop the settlers frommoving onto Native American lands The warbegan after settlers executed three Wampanoagsfor murder Metacometrsquos forces attacked townsacross the region killing hundreds of people
The settlers and their Native American alliesfought back King Philiprsquos War as the conflict wascalled ended in defeat for the Wampanoag andtheir allies The war destroyed the power of theNative Americans in New England leaving thecolonists free to expand their settlements
Evaluating Describe the signifi-cance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
80 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
The colonists interact with the Native Americans
HISTORY
Student Web ActivityVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 3mdashStudent Web Activitiesfor an activity on KingPhiliprsquos War
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Write a short paragraphin which you use the following termsdissent persecute Puritan Separatist Pilgrim MayflowerCompact toleration
2 Reviewing Facts Identify the rea-sons why the Separatists left Europefor the Americas
Reviewing Themes
3 Civic Rights and ResponsibilitiesWhat freedom did Rhode Island offerthat other colonies did not
Critical Thinking
4 Comparing What did the MayflowerCompact and the FundamentalOrders of Connecticut have in common
5 Determining Cause and EffectRe-create the diagram below anddescribe the effects as colonistsinteracted with Native Americans
Analyzing Maps
6 Geography Skills Study the map on page 77 What products camefrom New Hampshire
Music Create a song that the Pilgrimsmight have sung as they crossed theAtlantic on the Mayflower Create thelyrics for the song by using what youhave learned about why the Pilgrimssailed to New England Teach yoursong to your class
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Reading a Bar Graph
Why Learn This SkillA bar graph presents numerical information in a
visual way Bars of various lengths stand for differentquantities A bar graph lets you see a lot of informa-tion in an organized way Bars may be drawn verti-callymdashup and downmdashor horizontallymdashleft to rightLabels along the left axis and the bottom axis explainwhat the bars represent
Learning the SkillTo read a bar graphbullRead the title to learn the subject of the graph bullLook at the horizontal and vertical axes to find
out what information the graph presents bullCompare the lengths of the bars on the graph
Practicing the SkillStudy the bar graph on this page and answer thefollowing questions
1 Which colony had the largest total population in 1700 The smallest
2 Did Virginia or Maryland have a larger AfricanAmerican population
Applying the SkillReading a Bar Graph Create a bar graph torepresent the number of students in each Ameri-can history class in your school
Glencoersquos Skillbuilder InteractiveWorkbook CD-ROM Level 1 providesinstruction and practice in key socialstudies skills
Social StudiesSocial Studies
TotalPopulation
African AmericanPopulation
Source Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970
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Massachusetts Connecticut New York Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia
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25
30
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40
45
50
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1626Manhattan Islandpurchased from theManhates people
1664New Amsterdambecomes New York
1681William Penn foundsPennsylvania
1702New Jersey becomesa royal colony
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Main IdeaPeople from many different countriessettled in the Middle Colonies for avariety of reasons including religiousfreedom
Key Termspatroon proprietary colony pacifist
Reading StrategyClassifying Information As you readthe section re-create the diagrambelow and describe how the MiddleColonies were founded
Read to Learnbull why the Middle Colonies had the
most diverse populations in colo-nial America
bull who was Americarsquos first town planner
Section ThemeIndividual Action Leaders such asPeter Stuyvesant and William Pennhelped the Middle Colonies grow
Middle Colonies
English royal plate
Colony Founder Why settlers came
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
In 1649 17-year-old Philip Henry stood near the back of the crowd gathered arounda public platform near Whitehall Palace in London There he watched Charles I theking of England prepare to die The king made a short speech prayed silently andthen knelt with his head on the block
With just one blow the executioner severed the kingrsquos head from his body At thatmoment the crowd uttered ldquosuch a groan as I never heard before and desire I maynever hear againrdquo Henry wrote in his diary
England and the ColoniesIn England the Puritans who controlled Parliament were engaged in a strug-
gle for power against King Charles I In 1642 a civil war began Led by OliverCromwell a Puritan the Parliamentary forces defeated the king Charles I wasbeheaded in 1649 after a parliamentary court declared him guilty of treason
A new government was established with Cromwell as Protector During theseyears of unrest many Puritans left New England and returned to England tofight with Parliamentrsquos forces After the war ended English men and womenloyal to the king went to royal colonies like Virginia
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After Cromwell died in 1658 Parliamentbrought back the monarchy but placed new lim-its on the rulerrsquos powers Charles II son ofCharles I became king in 1660 His reign iscalled the Restoration because the monarchy hadbeen restored
In 1660 England had two clusters of coloniesin what is now the United StatesmdashMassachu-setts New Hampshire Connecticut and RhodeIsland in the north and Maryland and Virginiain the south Between the two groups of Englishcolonies were lands that the Dutch controlled
In 1621 a group of Dutch merchants hadformed the Dutch West India Company to tradein the Americas Their posts along the HudsonRiver grew into the colony of New NetherlandThe main settlement of the colony was NewAmsterdam located on Manhattan Island In1626 the company bought Manhattan from theManhates people for small quantities of beadsand other goods Blessed with a good seaportthe city of New Amsterdam soon became a cen-ter of shipping to and from the Americas
To increase the number of permanent settlersin its colony the Dutch West India Company sentover families from the Netherlands GermanySweden and Finland The company gave a largeestate to anyone who brought at least 50 settlersto work the land The wealthy landowners whoacquired these riverfront estates were calledpatroons The patroons ruled like kings Theyhad their own courts and laws Settlers owed thepatroon labor and a share of their crops
England Takes OverNew Netherland boasted an excellent harbor
and thriving river trade The English wanted toacquire the valuable Dutch colony that laybetween Englandrsquos New England and SouthernColonies In 1664 the English sent a fleet toattack New Amsterdam
At the time Peter Stuyvesant was governor ofthe colony His strict rule and heavy taxesturned many of the people in New Netherlandagainst him When the English ships sailed intoNew Amsterdamrsquos harbor the governor wasunprepared for a battle and surrendered thecolony to the English forces
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King Charles II gave the colony to his brotherthe Duke of York who renamed it New YorkNew York was a proprietary colony a colony inwhich the owner or proprietor owned all theland and controlled the government It differedfrom the New England Colonies where voterselected the governor and an assembly
Most of New Yorkrsquos settlers lived in the Hud-son River valley The Duke of York promised thediverse colonists freedom of religion In 1654 23Brazilian Jews had settled in New Amsterdam
Grain
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Fish
Lumber
Rum
Iron
Products
The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies were settled by people from many differentcountries and ethnic backgrounds1 Region What were the four Middle Colonies and what
were their main products2 Drawing Conclusions What geographic features
made Philadelphia and New York City centers for trade
83CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
After Cromwell died in 1658 Parliamentbrought back the monarchy but placed new lim-its on the rulerrsquos powers Charles II son ofCharles I became king in 1660 His reign iscalled the Restoration because the monarchy hadbeen restored
In 1660 England had two clusters of coloniesin what is now the United StatesmdashMassachu-setts New Hampshire Connecticut and RhodeIsland in the north and Maryland and Virginiain the south Between the two groups of Englishcolonies were lands that the Dutch controlled
In 1621 a group of Dutch merchants hadformed the Dutch West India Company to tradein the Americas Their posts along the HudsonRiver grew into the colony of New NetherlandThe main settlement of the colony was NewAmsterdam located on Manhattan Island In1626 the company bought Manhattan from theManhates people for small quantities of beadsand other goods Blessed with a good seaportthe city of New Amsterdam soon became a cen-ter of shipping to and from the Americas
To increase the number of permanent settlersin its colony the Dutch West India Company sentover families from the Netherlands GermanySweden and Finland The company gave a largeestate to anyone who brought at least 50 settlersto work the land The wealthy landowners whoacquired these riverfront estates were calledpatroons The patroons ruled like kings Theyhad their own courts and laws Settlers owed thepatroon labor and a share of their crops
England Takes OverNew Netherland boasted an excellent harbor
and thriving river trade The English wanted toacquire the valuable Dutch colony that laybetween Englandrsquos New England and SouthernColonies In 1664 the English sent a fleet toattack New Amsterdam
At the time Peter Stuyvesant was governor ofthe colony His strict rule and heavy taxesturned many of the people in New Netherlandagainst him When the English ships sailed intoNew Amsterdamrsquos harbor the governor wasunprepared for a battle and surrendered thecolony to the English forces
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Wilmington
Albany
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King Charles II gave the colony to his brotherthe Duke of York who renamed it New YorkNew York was a proprietary colony a colony inwhich the owner or proprietor owned all theland and controlled the government It differedfrom the New England Colonies where voterselected the governor and an assembly
Most of New Yorkrsquos settlers lived in the Hud-son River valley The Duke of York promised thediverse colonists freedom of religion In 1654 23Brazilian Jews had settled in New Amsterdam
Grain
Cattle
Fish
Lumber
Rum
Iron
Products
The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies were settled by people from many differentcountries and ethnic backgrounds1 Region What were the four Middle Colonies and what
were their main products2 Drawing Conclusions What geographic features
made Philadelphia and New York City centers for trade
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They were the first Jews to settle in North Amer-ica In 1664 New York had about 8000 inhabi-tants Most were Dutch but Germans SwedesNative Americans and Puritans from New Eng-land lived there as well The population alsoincluded at least 300 enslaved Africans NewAmsterdam which was later called New YorkCity was one of the fastest-growing locations inthe colony
By 1683 the colonyrsquos population had swelledto about 12000 people A governor and councilappointed by the Duke of York directed thecolonyrsquos affairs The colonists demanded a rep-resentative government like the governments ofthe other English colonies The duke resistedthe idea but the people of New York would notgive up Finally in 1691 the English govern-ment allowed New York to elect a legislature
New JerseyThe Duke of York gave the southern part of
his colony between the Hudson and DelawareRivers to Lord John Berkeley and Sir GeorgeCarteret The proprietors named their colonyNew Jersey after the island of Jersey in the Eng-lish Channel where Carteret was born
To attract settlers the proprietors offeredlarge tracts of land and generous terms Theyalso promised freedom of religion trial by juryand a representative assembly The assemblywould make local laws and set tax rates
Like New York New Jersey was a place ofethnic and religious diversity Because New Jer-sey had no natural harbors however it did notdevelop a major port or city like New York
The proprietors of New Jersey did not makethe profits they had expected Berkeley sold hisshare West Jersey in 1674 Carteretrsquos share EastJersey was sold in 1682
By 1702 New Jersey had passed back into thehands of the king becoming a royal colony Thecolonists still continued to make local laws
Explaining Why did no major portdevelop in New Jersey
PennsylvaniaIn 1680 William Penn a wealthy English gen-
tleman presented a plan to King Charles Pennrsquosfather had once lent the king a great deal ofmoney Penn had inherited the kingrsquos promise to
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History Through Art
Pennrsquos Treaty with the Indians In 1682 William Pennmade his first treaty with the Delaware people Why didPenn see Pennsylvania as a ldquoholy experimentrdquo
They were the first Jews to settle in North Amer-ica In 1664 New York had about 8000 inhabi-tants Most were Dutch but Germans SwedesNative Americans and Puritans from New Eng-land lived there as well The population alsoincluded at least 300 enslaved Africans NewAmsterdam which was later called New YorkCity was one of the fastest-growing locations inthe colony
By 1683 the colonyrsquos population had swelledto about 12000 people A governor and councilappointed by the Duke of York directed thecolonyrsquos affairs The colonists demanded a rep-resentative government like the governments ofthe other English colonies The duke resistedthe idea but the people of New York would notgive up Finally in 1691 the English govern-ment allowed New York to elect a legislature
New JerseyThe Duke of York gave the southern part of
his colony between the Hudson and DelawareRivers to Lord John Berkeley and Sir GeorgeCarteret The proprietors named their colonyNew Jersey after the island of Jersey in the Eng-lish Channel where Carteret was born
To attract settlers the proprietors offeredlarge tracts of land and generous terms Theyalso promised freedom of religion trial by juryand a representative assembly The assemblywould make local laws and set tax rates
Like New York New Jersey was a place ofethnic and religious diversity Because New Jer-sey had no natural harbors however it did notdevelop a major port or city like New York
The proprietors of New Jersey did not makethe profits they had expected Berkeley sold hisshare West Jersey in 1674 Carteretrsquos share EastJersey was sold in 1682
By 1702 New Jersey had passed back into thehands of the king becoming a royal colony Thecolonists still continued to make local laws
Explaining Why did no major portdevelop in New Jersey
PennsylvaniaIn 1680 William Penn a wealthy English gen-
tleman presented a plan to King Charles Pennrsquosfather had once lent the king a great deal ofmoney Penn had inherited the kingrsquos promise to
84 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
History Through Art
Pennrsquos Treaty with the Indians In 1682 William Pennmade his first treaty with the Delaware people Why didPenn see Pennsylvania as a ldquoholy experimentrdquo
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repay the loan Instead of money however Pennasked for land in America Pleased to get rid ofhis debt so easily the king gave Penn a tract ofland stretching inland from the Delaware RiverThe new colony named Pennsylvania wasnearly as large as England
William Penn belonged to a Protestant groupof dissenters called the Society of Friends orQuakers The Quakers believed that every indi-vidual had an ldquoinner lightrdquo that could guide himor her to salvation Each person could experiencereligious truth directly which meant that churchservices and officials were unnecessary Every-one was equal in Godrsquos sight Though firm intheir beliefs the Quakers were tolerant of theviews of others
Many people in England found the Quakersrsquoideas a threat to established traditions Quakerswould not bow or take off their hats to lords andladies because of their belief that everyone wasequal In addition they were pacifists peoplewho refuse to use force or to fight in warsQuakers were fined jailed and even executedfor their beliefs
William Penn saw Pennsylvania as a ldquoholyexperimentrdquo a chance to put the Quaker idealsof toleration and equality into practice In 1682he sailed to America to supervise the building ofPhiladelphia the ldquocity of brotherly loverdquo Pennbelieved that
ldquoany government is free to the people underit where the laws rule and the people are aparty to those lawsrdquo
Penn had designed the city himself makinghim Americarsquos first town planner Penn alsowrote Pennsylvaniarsquos first constitution
Penn believed that the land belonged to theNative Americans and that settlers should payfor it In 1682 he negotiated the first of severaltreaties with local Native Americans
To encourage European settlers to come toPennsylvania Penn advertised the colonythroughout Europe with pamphlets in severallanguages By 1683 more than 3000 EnglishWelsh Irish Dutch and German settlers hadarrived In 1701 in the Charter of Liberties Penngranted the colonists the right to elect represen-tatives to the legislative assembly
The southernmost part of Pennsylvania wascalled the Three Lower Counties Settled bySwedes in 1638 the area had been taken over bythe Dutch and the English before becoming part ofPennsylvania The Charter of Privileges allowedthe lower counties to form their own legislaturewhich they did in 1704 Thereafter the countiesfunctioned as a separate colony known asDelaware supervised by Pennsylvaniarsquos governor
Summarizing How did WilliamPenn encourage self-government
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Write a short paragraph
in which you use the following keyterms patroon proprietary colonypacifist
2 Reviewing Facts What did the Char-ter of Liberties grant to Pennsylvaniacolonists
Reviewing Themes3 Individual Action How did William
Penn earn the respect of NativeAmericans
Critical Thinking4 Compare and Contrast How was
the Quaker religion different fromthat of the Puritans
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and describe howeach of the Middle Colonies was governed
Analyzing Visuals6 Geography Skills Review the map
on page 83 What is the title of themap What items are shown in thekey What products were importantto Pennsylvania
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America 85
Art Design a flag for one of theMiddle Colonies Decide what sym-bols and colors would be appropri-ate to represent that colonyDisplay your flags in class
Colony Type of government
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
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c 1610Spanish establish Santa Fe
1676Baconrsquos Rebellionoccurs
1718French establish cityof New Orleans
1733First settlersarrive in Georgia
Main IdeaThe Southern Colonies relied on cashcrops to survive while the French andSpanish tried to establish their ownsettlements
Key Termsindentured servant constitutiondebtor tenant farmer mission
Reading StrategyClassifying Information As you readthe section re-create the diagrambelow and identify the main crops ofthree of the Southern Colonies
Read to Learnbull how the Southern Colonies were
establishedbull how French and Spanish colonies
differed from the English colonies
Section ThemeGroups and Institutions Spanish andFrench settlements developed in dif-ferent ways from English settlements
Southern Colonies
How did it feel to be enslaved on the plantations of the South In the 1930s inter-viewers put this question to African Americans once under slavery Many of themwere approaching 100 years old and some still carried deep scars on their backs fromwhippings To be a slave meant to have no human rights Elderly Roberta Masonremembered ldquoOnce they whipped my father lsquocause he looked at a slave they killedand criedrdquo
Coming to AmericaBy 1660 while tobacco prices fell large plantations continued to prosper
because they were better able to maintain high profits than were small farmsAlong with the growth of plantations there was an increasing need for work-ers in the newly settled Southern Colonies
Establishing colonies in North America involved a great deal of work The set-tlers had to clear the land construct homes and churches plant crops and tendthe fields As the colonies expanded the demand for capable workers grew
Slave drum Virginia
Colony Main crop
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
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Not all people came to work in the colonies oftheir own free will English criminals and Scottishand Irish prisoners of war were also shipped tothe colonies They could earn their release byworking for a period of timemdashoften seven yearsSome colonists complained that their settlementswere dumping grounds for ldquoHis Majestyrsquos seven-year passengersrdquo African rulers took prisonersduring wars and raids They enslaved the cap-tives and sold them to European slave traderswho took them to the colonies Many peoplecame to the colonies as indentured servants Topay for their passage to America they agreed towork without pay for a certain period of time
Establishing MarylandMaryland arose from the dream of Sir
George Calvert Lord Baltimore a CatholicCalvert wanted to establish a safe place for hisfellow Catholics who were being persecuted inEngland He also hoped that a colony wouldbring him a fortune
Calvertrsquos dream came true in 1632 whenKing Charles I gave him a proprietary colonynorth of Virginia Calvert died before receivingthe grant His son Cecilius Calvert inheritedthe colony It was named Maryland either afterthe English queen Henrietta Maria or after theVirgin Mary
The younger Calvertmdashthe new Lord Balti-moremdashnever lived in Maryland Instead he senttwo of his brothers to run the colony Theyreached America in 1634 with two ships andmore than 200 settlers Entering the ChesapeakeBay they sailed up the Potomac River throughfertile countryside A priest in the party describedthe Potomac as ldquothe sweetest and greatest river Ihave ever seenrdquo The colonists chose a site fortheir settlement which they called St Marys
Knowing that tobacco had saved the Virginiacolony the Maryland colonists turned first totobacco farming To keep the colony frombecoming too dependent on one crop howevera Maryland law declared that ldquoevery personplanting tobacco shall plant and tend two acresof cornrdquo In addition to corn most Marylandtobacco farmers produced wheat fruit vegeta-bles and livestock to feed their families and
their workers Baltimore founded in 1729 wasMarylandrsquos port Before long Baltimore becamethe colonyrsquos largest settlement
Aristocrats and FarmersLord Baltimore gave large estates to his rela-
tives and other English aristocrats By doing sohe created a wealthy and powerful class oflandowners in Maryland
The colony needed people to work in the plan-tation fields To bring settlers to the colony LordBaltimore promised landmdash100 acres to each
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The climate in the Southern Colonies allowed colonists to growrice and tobacco1 Region What were the five Southern Colonies2 Analyzing Information What rivers acted as colonial
borders in the Southern Colonies
87CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
Rice
Indigo
Cattle
Grain
Tobacco
Fish
Lumber
Iron
Rum
Products
The Southern Colonies
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male settler another 100 for his wife 100 for eachservant and 50 for each of his children As thenumber of plantations increased and additionalworkers were needed the colony importedindentured servants and enslaved Africans
The Mason-Dixon LineFor years the Calvert family and the Penn
family argued over the boundary betweenMaryland and Pennsylvania In the 1760s theyhired two British astronomers Charles Masonand Jeremiah Dixon to map the line dividingthe colonies It took the two scientists manyyears to lay out the boundary stones Each stonehad the crest of the Penn family on one side andthe crest of the Calverts on the other
Another conflict was even harder to resolveThe Calverts had welcomed Protestants as wellas Catholics in Maryland Protestant settlers out-numbered Catholics from the start
Act of TolerationTo protect the Catholics from any attempt to
make Maryland a Protestant colony Baltimorepassed a law called the Act of Toleration in1649 The act granted Protestants and Catholicsthe right to worship freely but tensions contin-
ued between Protestants and Catholics In 1692with the support of the English government theProtestant-controlled assembly made the Angli-can Church the official church in Maryland andimposed the same restrictions on Catholics thatexisted in England
Explaining Why did George Calvertestablish the colony of Maryland
Virginia Expands While other colonies were being founded Vir-
ginia continued to grow Wealthy tobaccoplanters held the best land near the coast sonew settlers pushed inland As the settlersmoved west they found the lands inhabited byNative Americans In the 1640s to avoid conflictsVirginiarsquos governor William Berkeley worked outan arrangement with the Native Americans Inexchange for a large piece of land he agreed tokeep settlers from pushing farther into their lands
Baconrsquos RebellionNathaniel Bacon a wealthy young planter
was a leader in the western part of Virginia Heand other westerners opposed the colonial
88 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
Born in England Mar-garet Brent moved toMaryland in 1638 Shequickly accumulated sev-eral thousand acres ofland and became one ofthe largest landownersAccording to colonialrecords she was also thefirst woman to own landin her own name
Brave and forcefulBrent helped to put down
a rebellion from neighbor-ing Virginia and she tookcharge of paying Mary-landrsquos troops Refusing tofollow the restricted lifeof most colonial womenshe later served as attor-ney for Lord BaltimoreMarylandrsquos proprietor
In January 1648 Brentcame into conflict withthe colonial governmentwhen she appeared before
the assembly Shedemanded two votes one for herself as alandowner and one asLord Baltimorersquos legalrepresentative After thegovernment denied herclaim she moved to alarge plantation in Vir-ginia There Americarsquosfirst woman lawyer livedthe rest of her life
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government because it was domi-nated by easterners Many of thewesterners resented GovernorBerkeleyrsquos pledge to stay out ofNative American territory Someof them settled in the forbiddenlands and then blamed the gov-ernment in Jamestown for notprotecting them from NativeAmerican raids
In 1676 Bacon led the angrywesterners in attacks on NativeAmerican villages GovernorBerkeley declared Bacon ldquothegreatest rebel that ever was inVirginiardquo Baconrsquos army marchedto Jamestown set fire to the capi-tal and drove Berkeley into exileOnly Baconrsquos sudden illness anddeath kept him from takingcharge of Virginia England thenrecalled Berkeley and sent troopsto restore order
Baconrsquos Rebellion had shownthat the settlers were not willingto be restricted to the coast The colonial gov-ernment created a militia force to control theNative Americans and opened up more landto settlement
Analyzing Why did Bacon opposethe colonial government
Settling the CarolinasIn 1663 King Charles II created a large propri-
etary colony south of Virginia The colony wascalled Carolina which means ldquoCharlesrsquos landrdquoin Latin The king gave the colony to a group ofeight prominent members of his court who hadhelped him regain his throne
The Carolina proprietors carved out largeestates for themselves and hoped to makemoney by selling and renting land The propri-etors provided money to bring colonists overfrom England Settlers began arriving in Car-olina in 1670 By 1680 they had founded a citywhich they called Charles Town after the
king The name later becameCharleston
John Locke an English politi-cal philosopher wrote a constitu-tion for the Carolina colony Thisconstitution or plan of govern-ment covered such subjects asland distribution and socialranking Locke was concernedwith principles and rights Heargued that
ldquoevery man has a property in hisown person This nobody has anyright to but himself The labour of hisbody and the work of his hands wemay say are properly his rdquo
Carolina however did notdevelop according to plan Thepeople of northern and southernCarolina soon went their sepa-rate ways creating two colonies
EconomicsNorthern and Southern Carolina
The northern part of Carolina was settledmostly by farmers from Virginiarsquos backcountryThey grew tobacco and sold forest productssuch as timber and tar Because the northernCarolina coast did not have a good harbor thefarmers relied on Virginiarsquos ports and merchantsto conduct their trade
The southern part of the Carolinas was moreprosperous thanks to fertile farmland and agood harbor at Charles Town Settlementsspread and the trade in deerskin lumber andbeef flourished In the 1680s planters discoveredthat rice grew well in the wet coastal lowlandsRice soon became the colonyrsquos leading crop
In the 1740s a young Englishwoman namedEliza Lucas developed another important Car-olina cropmdashindigo Indigo a blue floweringplant was used to dye textiles After experi-menting with seeds from the West Indies Lucassucceeded in growing and processing indigothe ldquoblue goldrdquo of Carolina
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Slave Labor in the CarolinasMost of the settlers in southern Carolina came
from another English colonymdashthe island of Bar-bados in the West Indies In Barbados the colonistsused enslaved Africans to produce sugar Thecolonists brought these workers with them
Many enslaved Africans who arrived in theCarolinas worked in the rice fields Some ofthem knew a great deal about rice cultivationbecause they had come from the rice-growingareas of West Africa Growing rice requiredmuch labor so the demand for slaves increasedBy 1708 more than half the people living insouthern Carolina were enslaved Africans
By the early 1700s Carolinarsquos settlers were angryat the proprietors They wanted a greater role in thecolonyrsquos government In 1719 the settlers in south-ern Carolina seized control from its proprietors In1729 Carolina became two royal coloniesmdashNorthand South Carolina
Explaining Who was John LockeWhat did he do for Carolina
A rice plantation included the ownerrsquos large house surrounded by the small dwellings of enslaved AfricansWhy did rice cultivation increase the demand forenslaved labor
History
GeorgiaGeorgia the last of the British colonies in
America to be established was founded in 1733A group led by General James Oglethorpereceived a charter to create a colony where Eng-lish debtors and poor people could make a freshstart In Great Britain debtorsmdashthose who areunable to repay their debtsmdashwere generallythrown into prison
The British government had another reasonfor creating Georgia This colony could protectthe other British colonies from Spanish attackGreat Britain and Spain had been at war in theearly 1700s and new conflicts over territory inNorth America were always breaking outLocated between Spanish Florida and South Car-olina Georgia could serve as a military barrier
Oglethorpersquos TownOglethorpe led the first group of ldquosober
industrial and moral personsrdquo to Georgia in1733 They built a town called Savannah as wellas forts to defend themselves from the Spanish
Oglethorpe wanted the people of Georgia tobe hardworking independent and ProtestantHe kept the size of farms small and banned slav-ery Catholics and rum
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1st Permanent Colony Settlement Reasons Founded Founders or Leaders
New England Colonies
Massachusetts Plymouth 1620 Religious freedom John Carver William Bradford Mass Bay Colony 1630 Religious freedom John Winthrop
New Hampshire c 1620 Profit from trade and fishing Ferdinando Gorges John Mason
Rhode Island 1636 Religious freedom Roger Williams
Connecticut 1635 Profit from fur trade farming Thomas Hookerreligious and political freedom
Middle Colonies
New York 1624 Expand trade Dutch settlers
Delaware 1638 Expand trade Swedish settlers
New Jersey 1638 Profit from selling land John Berkeley George Carteret
Pennsylvania 1682 Profit from selling land William Pennreligious freedom
Southern Colonies
Virginia 1607 Expand trade John Smith
Maryland 1634 To sell land religious freedom Cecil Calvert
North Carolina c 1660s Profit from trade and selling land Group of eight aristocrats
South Carolina 1670 Profit from trade and selling land Group of eight aristocrats
Georgia 1733 Religious freedom protection James Oglethorpeagainst Spanish Florida safehome for debtors
Founding the Thirteen Colonies
The thirteen colonies were founded over aspan of 125 years
Sequencing What colony was the first to besettled Which was the last
91CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
Although Georgia had been planned as adebtorsrsquo colony it actually received few debtorsHundreds of poor people came from GreatBritain Religious refugees from Germany andSwitzerland and a small group of Jews also set-tled there Georgia soon had a higher percentageof non-British settlers than any other Britishcolony in the Americas
The Colony ChangesMany settlers complained about the limits on
the size of landholdings and the law banningslave labor They also objected to the many rulesOglethorpe made regulating their lives Thecolonists referred to Oglethorpe as ldquoour perpet-ual dictatorrdquo
Oglethorpe grew frustrated by the colonistsrsquodemands and the colonyrsquos slow growth Heagreed to let people have larger landholdingsand lifted the bans against slavery and rum In1751 he gave up altogether and turned thecolony back over to the king
By that time British settlers had been in whatis now the eastern United States for almost acentury and a half They had lined the Atlanticcoast with colonies
Explaining How did Georgia serveas protection for the English colonies
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New FranceThe British were not the only Europeans who
were colonizing North America however Else-where on the continent the Spanish and theFrench had built settlements of their own
The French had founded Quebec in 1608 Atfirst they had little interest in large-scale settle-ment in North America They were mainly con-cerned with fishing and trapping animals fortheir fur French trappers and missionaries wentfar into the interior of North America French furcompanies built forts and trading posts to pro-tect their profitable trade
In 1663 New France became a royal colonyKing Louis XIV limited the privileges of the furcompanies He appointed a royal governor whostrongly supported new explorations
Down the Mississippi RiverIn the 1670s two Frenchmenmdasha fur trader
Louis Joliet and a priest Jacques Marquettemdashexplored the Mississippi River by canoe Jolietand Marquette hoped to find gold silver orother precious metals They were also lookingfor a water passage to the Pacific Ocean Thetwo explorers reached as far south as the junc-tion of the Arkansas and Mississippi RiversWhen they realized that the Mississippi flowedsouth into the Gulf of Mexico rather than westinto the Pacific they turned around and headedback upriver
A few years later Reneacute-Robert Cavelier Sieurde La Salle followed the Mississippi River all theway to the Gulf of Mexico La Salle claimed theregion around the river for France He called thisterritory Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV In1718 the French governor founded the port ofNew Orleans near the mouth of the MississippiRiver Later French explorers traders and mis-sionaries traveled west to the Rocky Mountainsand southwest to the Rio Grande
Growth of New FranceFrench settlement in North America
advanced very slowly Settlement in NewFrance consisted of a system of estates alongthe St Lawrence River The estate holdersreceived land in exchange for bringing settlers
to the colony Known as tenant farmers thesettlers paid their lord an annual rent andworked for him for a fixed number of dayseach year
The French had better relations with theNative Americans than did other EuropeansFrench trappers and missionaries traveled deepinto Indian lands They lived among the NativeAmerican peoples learned their languages andrespected their ways
Although the missionaries had come to convertNative Americans to Catholicism they did not tryto change the Indiansrsquo customs Most importantthe French colony grew so slowly that NativeAmericans were not pushed off their lands
Describing What region did La Salle explore
New SpainIn the early 1600s England France and the
Netherlands began their colonization of NorthAmerica The Spanish however still controlledmost of Mexico the Caribbean and Central andSouth America They also expanded into thewestern and southern parts of what would oneday be the United States
Spain was determined to keep the other Euro-pean powers from threatening its empire inAmerica To protect their claims the Spanishsent soldiers missionaries and settlers northinto present-day New Mexico
In late 1609 or early 1610 Spanish missionar-ies soldiers and settlers founded Santa FeAnother group of missionaries and settlers wentto what is now Arizona in the late 1600s WhenFrance began exploring and laying claim tolands around the Mississippi River the Spanishmoved into what is now Texas Spain wanted tocontrol the area between the French territoryand their own colony in Mexico In the early1700s Spain established San Antonio and sevenother military posts in Texas
Missions in CaliforniaSpanish priests built a string of missions
along the Pacific coast Missions are religioussettlements established to convert people to a
92 CHAPTER 3 Colonial America
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particular faith The missions enabled the Span-ish to lay claim to California
The Spanish did more than convert NativeAmericans to Christianity Spanish missionariesand soldiers also brought them to the mis-sionsmdashoften by forcemdashto serve as laborers infields and workshops
In 1769 Juniacutepero Serra a Franciscan monkfounded a mission at San Diego Over the next15 years Father Serra set up eight more mis-sions in California along a route called ElCamino Real (The Royal Highway)mdashmissionsthat would grow into such cities as Los Angelesand Monterey
The distance from one mission to the nextwas usually a dayrsquos walk and Serra traveled onfoot to visit each one and advise the missionar-ies Serra also championed the rights of theNative Americans He worked to prevent Span-ish army commanders in the region from mis-treating them
European Conflicts in North AmericaThe rivalries between European nations car-
ried over into the Americas Britain and Francefought several wars in the 1700s When the twocountries were at war in Europe fighting oftenbroke out between British colonists in Americaand French colonists in New France
France and Great Britain were the principalrivals of the colonial period Both nations wereexpanding their settlements in North AmericaIn the late 1700s and early 1800s wars in Europebetween the British and the French would shapeevents across the Atlantic even more decisively
Explaining Why did Spain establishmissions in California
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Write a short paragraph
in which you use all of the followingterms indentured servant constitu-tion debtor tenant farmer mission
2 Reviewing Facts Explain why Frenchsettlement in North America wasslower than in the English colonies
Reviewing Themes3 Groups and Institutions What role
did Margaret Brent play in the gov-ernment and economy of Maryland
Critical Thinking4 Analyzing Information Do you
think uprisings such as BaconrsquosRebellion were a sign of more unrestto come Explain your answer
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and describe theregions that these countries con-trolled in North America
Analyzing Visuals6 Geography Skills Review the map
on page 87 Which of the SouthernColonies included the city of NorfolkWhat were the main products inGeorgia What was the major city inSouth Carolina
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America 93
Art Work with a group to create abulletin board display titled ldquoTheSouthern Coloniesrdquo Include slo-gans and pictures to show thecoloniesrsquo origins climate naturalresources and products
Country Region
Spain
France
ldquo[The natives] treatedus with much confidence and good-willrdquomdashJuniacutepero Serra 1769
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Religious groups
1587ndash1650bull English settle Roanoke Island 1587
bull First permanent English colony atJamestown 1607
bull Champlain founds Quebec 1608
bull Spanish settlers found Santa Fec 1610
bull House of Burgesses meet 1619
bull First Africans arrive at Jamestown 1619
bull Mayflower Compactsigned 1620
bull Puritans settle Massa-chusetts Bay Colony1630
bull Thomas Hooker founds Hartford 1636
bull Anne Hutchinsonfounds Portsmouth1638
bull Maryland passes religious Toleration Act 1649
1650ndash1700bull Marquette and Joliet explore
Mississippi River 1673
bull King Philiprsquos War 1675
bull Baconrsquos Rebellion 1676
bull William Penn receives charterfor Pennsylvania 1681
1700ndash1769bull French found city of New
Orleans 1718
bull Carolina is divided into sepa-rate colonies 1729
bull Georgia settled last of 13English colonies 1733
bull Father Serra establishes mis-sion at San Diego 1769
Colonial America
94
Reviewing Key TermsExamine the pairs of words below Then write a sentenceexplaining what each of the pairs have in common1 charter joint-stock company2 dissent persecute3 patroon proprietary colony4 indentured servant debtor5 Pilgrim Mayflower Compact
Reviewing Key Facts6 Why did settlers choose a peninsula on which to build
Jamestown7 Why did the Virginia Company create the House of
Burgesses8 How did the Puritansrsquo and the Pilgrimsrsquo view of the
Anglican Church differ9 How did the Native Americans help the Pilgrims
10 What is important about the year 160711 Name two things that colonial leaders offered to
attract settlers12 What were Sir George Calvertrsquos two main reasons for
establishing Maryland13 Why was there a high demand for slave labor in the
Carolinas14 Describe the relationship between the French and the
Native Americans15 Why did Spain send missionaries to the Pacific coast
and the Southwest
Critical Thinking16 Comparing How did the economic activities of the
French differ from those of the English in North America
17 Analyzing Themes Civic Rights and Responsibili-ties What role did religious freedom play in thefounding of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania
18 Synthesizing Information Re-create the diagrambelow List three religious groups that left England anddescribe their beliefs
Geography and History ActivityStudy the map below and answer the questions that follow
19 Location Which colonies had the largest areas of settle-ment before 1660
20 Place During what time period was Boston settled
Practicing SkillsReading a Bar Graph Study the bar graph on page 81 thenanswer these questions21 Which colonies had passed 35000 in population by 170022 Which colony had the largest African American population
Technology Activity23 Using the Internet Search the Internet for information
about the Canadian cities of Quebec and Montreal Findhistorical sites that show the French presence in thesecities Then create a travel brochure
Self-Check QuizVisit tajglencoecom and click on Chapter 3mdashSelf-Check Quizzes to prepare for the chapter test
HISTORY
CHAPTER 3 Colonial America 95
Directions Choose the bestanswer to the following question
Which colony was founded to put Quaker ideas into practice
A Plymouth C GeorgiaB Virginia D Pennsylvania
Test-Taking Tip
As you read the stem of each multiple-choice question try to anticipate the answer before you look
at the choices If your answer is one of the choices it is probably correct
Standardized Test Practice
Citizenship Cooperative Activity24 When you become 18 years old you can begin to exer-
cise one of your most important rightsmdashthe right to voteFirst however you must register Work with a partner tofind out where you can obtain a voter registration cardMake a list of the information you will need for the cardShare your information with the class
Economics Activity25 Most societies use a medium of exchangemdashsomething
accepted in return for goods and services Money is onemedium of exchange In the colonies however the peo-ple never had a form of money that had the same valueeverywhere and was accepted by everyone Since usingmoney presented problems colonists often traded goodswithout the use of money This is called barter Researchto find out more about barter Then answer What are theadvantages of barter
Alternative Assessment26 Portfolio Writing Activity Examine the painting on page
84 What ideas is the artist presenting Write a paragraphthat answers the question
200 kilometers0Lambert Equal-Area projection
200 miles0
N
S
EW
70degW
40degN
80degW
ATLaNTIC
OCEaN
NEWYORK
MAINE(Part of MASS)
MASS
NJ
DELMD
RI
NH
CONNPENNSYLVANIA
VIRGINIA
NORTHCAROLINA
SOUTHCAROLINA
GEORGIA
Boston
ProvidenceHartford
Philadelphia
New York City
Jamestown
CharlesTown
Savannah
Before 1660
Between 1660 and 1700
Between 1700 and 1760
Town or city
Settlement of the British Colonies
96
Making a Compass
In the late 1800s some
shipbuilders built ships
with iron and steel
However these metals
interfered with the mag-
netic compasses sailors
used Eventually naviga-
tors learned to make the
necessary adjustments
to the compass so it
would work properly
Imagine standing on board your ship As captain of the ship
you are in charge of the lives of about 150 crewmembers Now
your ship is in the middle of the ocean and you are looking all
around you All you can see is watermdashwater everywhere How
in the world will you know where to find land You are facing
the same problem that Marco Polo Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama and other explorers faced What is the solution
Use a compass to find direction
The Way It Was
Chinese sailors probably first developed and used the com-
pass in the early 1000s or 1100s to guide their ships The Arabs
then used this technology and passed it on to the Europeans
The Europeans improved the magnetic compass and during the
age of exploration European sailors used it to figure out where
they were and how far they were from land
a paper clip (straightened) a small bar magnet
(a refrigerator magnet will work if you donrsquot have a bar magnet)
a small piece of cork (or Styrofoam)
a small cup or bowl of wateron which to float the corkand paper clip
a sheet of plain paper and a pen
Compasses come inmany shapes and sizes
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After your teacher has organized you intogroups of three or four follow the directionsbelow
1 Make sure that the paper clip has beenstraightened Then run the magnet overthe paper clip a few times always in thesame direction By doing this you aremagnetizing the paper clip
2 Carefully push one end of the paper clipinto one end of the cork (or Styrofoam)Carefully drive the paper clip through thelength of the cork stopping when it issecurely attached to the cork
3 Float the cork and paper clip in the cupor bowl of water (The paper clip shouldbe above the water not touching it)Next cut out a ring of paper to place out-side of the bowl On the paper ring markthe compass directions N E S and WYour compass is now complete
4 Place your compass on a stable surfacesuch as a table What happens
5 Experiment further by placing the magnetnear your compass and observing whathappens
6 Turn your compass to face each of theroomrsquos four walls Read your compass todetermine how accurately it indicates thenorth south east and west sides of theclassroom
1 Why did European explorers use compassesWhy would sailors today use compasses
2 How do compasses work Why must compassneedles be magnetized
3 What happened to your compass when youplaced it on the table What direction did itpoint Why
4 Drawing Conclusions What would occur ifyou moved a magnet around your compassWhy would this happen
Put your compass to use Choose a partner While your partner is out of the room hide a scrap of paper with a
message on it somewhere in the room When your partnerreturns to the room give directions on how to find the paperusing the compass Try following the directions yourself firstto make sure they work
97
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- The American JourneymdashIllinois Edition
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- Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science
- How Does The American Journey Help Me Learn the Standards
- How Does The American Journey Help Me Test My Knowledge of Social Science
- The Illinois Constitution A Summary
- Table of Contents
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- Previewing Your Textbook
- Scavenger Hunt
- How Do I Study History
- The Structure of Illinois Government
- Constitution Test Practice
- Reading Skills Handbook
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- Identifying Words and Building Vocabulary
- Reading for a Reason
- Understanding What You Read
- Thinking About Your Reading
- Understanding Text Structure
- Reading for Research
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- National Geographic Reference Atlas
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- United States Political
- United States Physical
- United States Territorial Growth
- North America Physical
- North America Political
- Middle East PhysicalPolitical
- World Political
- United States Facts
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- Geography Handbook
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- What Is Geography
- How Do I Study Geography
- How Do I Use Maps
- How Does Geography Influence History
- Geographic Dictionary
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- Be an Active Reader
- Unit 1 Different Worlds Meet Beginnings to 1625
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- Chapter 1 The First Americans Prehistory to 1492
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- Section 1 Early Peoples
- Section 2 Cities and Empires
- Section 3 North American Peoples
- Chapter 1 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 2 Exploring the Americas 1400ndash1625
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- Section 1 A Changing World
- Section 2 Early Exploration
- Section 3 Spain in America
- Section 4 Exploring North America
- Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 2 Colonial Settlement 1587ndash1770
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- Chapter 3 Colonial America 1587ndash1770
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- Section 1 Early English Settlements
- Section 2 New England Colonies
- Section 3 Middle Colonies
- Section 4 Southern Colonies
- Chapter 3 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 4 The Colonies Grow 1607ndash1770
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- Section 1 Life in the Colonies
- Section 2 Government Religion and Culture
- Section 3 France and Britain Clash
- Section 4 The French and Indian War
- Chapter 4 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 3 Creating a Nation 1763ndash1791
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- Chapter 5 Road to Independence 1763ndash1776
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- Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
- Section 2 Building Colonial Unity
- Section 3 A Call to Arms
- Section 4 Moving Toward Independence
- The Declaration of Independence
- Chapter 5 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 6 The American Revolution 1776ndash1783
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- Section 1 The Early Years
- Section 2 The War Continues
- Section 3 The War Moves West and South
- Section 4 The War Is Won
- Chapter 6 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 7 A More Perfect Union 1777ndash1790
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- Section 1 The Articles of Confederation
- Section 2 Convention and Compromise
- Section 3 A New Plan of Government
- Chapter 7 Assessment and Activities
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- Civics in Action A Citizenship Handbook
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- Section 1 The Constitution
- Section 2 The Federal Government
- Section 3 Citizens Rights and Responsibilities
- Handbook Assessment
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- The Constitution of the United States
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- Unit 4 The New Republic 1789ndash1825
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- Chapter 8 A New Nation 1789ndash1800
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- Section 1 The First President
- Section 2 Early Challenges
- Section 3 The First Political Parties
- Chapter 8 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 9 The Jefferson Era 1800ndash1816
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- Section 1 The Republicans Take Power
- Section 2 The Louisiana Purchase
- Section 3 A Time of Conflict
- Section 4 The War of 1812
- Chapter 9 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 10 Growth and Expansion 1790ndash1825
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- Section 1 Economic Growth
- Section 2 Westward Bound
- Section 3 Unity and Sectionalism
- Chapter 10 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 5 The Growing Nation 1820ndash1860
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- Chapter 11 The Jackson Era 1824ndash1845
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- Section 1 Jacksonian Democracy
- Section 2 Conflicts Over Land
- Section 3 Jackson and the Bank
- Chapter 11 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 12 Manifest Destiny 1818ndash1853
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- Section 1 The Oregon Country
- Section 2 Independence for Texas
- Section 3 War with Mexico
- Section 4 New Settlers in California and Utah
- Chapter 12 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 13 North and South 1820ndash1860
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- Section 1 The Norths Economy
- Section 2 The Norths People
- Section 3 Southern Cotton Kingdom
- Section 4 The Souths People
- Chapter 13 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 14 The Age of Reform 1820ndash1860
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- Section 1 Social Reform
- Section 2 The Abolitionists
- Section 3 The Womens Movement
- Chapter 14 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 6 Civil War and Reconstruction 1846ndash1896
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- Chapter 15 Road to Civil War 1820ndash1861
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- Section 1 Slavery and the West
- Section 2 A Nation Dividing
- Section 3 Challenges to Slavery
- Section 4 Secession and War
- Chapter 15 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 16 The Civil War 1861ndash1865
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- Section 1 The Two Sides
- Section 2 Early Years of the War
- Section 3 A Call for Freedom
- Section 4 Life During the Civil War
- Section 5 The Way to Victory
- Chapter 16 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 17 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 1865ndash1896
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- Section 1 Reconstruction Plans
- Section 2 Radicals in Control
- Section 3 The South During Reconstruction
- Section 4 Change in the South
- Chapter 17 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 7 Reshaping the Nation 1858ndash1914
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- Chapter 18 The Western Frontier 1858ndash1896
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- Section 1 The Mining Booms
- Section 2 Ranchers and Farmers
- Section 3 Native American Struggles
- Section 4 Farmers in Protest
- Chapter 18 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 19 The Growth of Industry 1865ndash1914
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- Section 1 Railroads Lead the Way
- Section 2 Inventions
- Section 3 An Age of Big Business
- Section 4 Industrial Workers
- Chapter 19 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 20 Toward an Urban America 1865ndash1914
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- Section 1 The New Immigrants
- Section 2 Moving to the City
- Section 3 A Changing Culture
- Chapter 20 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 8 Reform Expansion and War 1865ndash1920
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- Chapter 21 Progressive Reforms 1877ndash1920
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- Section 1 The Progressive Movement
- Section 2 Women and Progressives
- Section 3 Progressive Presidents
- Section 4 Excluded from Reform
- Chapter 21 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 22 Overseas Expansion 1865ndash1917
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- Section 1 Expanding Horizons
- Section 2 Imperialism in the Pacific
- Section 3 Spanish-American War
- Section 4 Latin American Policies
- Chapter 22 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 23 World War I 1914ndash1919
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- Section 1 War in Europe
- Section 2 Americas Road to War
- Section 3 Americans Join the Allies
- Section 4 The War at Home
- Section 5 Searching for Peace
- Chapter 23 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 9 Turbulent Decades 1919ndash1945
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- Chapter 24 The Jazz Age 1919ndash1929
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- Section 1 Time of Turmoil
- Section 2 Desire for Normalcy
- Section 3 A Booming Economy
- Section 4 The Roaring Twenties
- Chapter 24 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 25 The Depression and FDR 1929ndash1941
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- Section 1 The Great Depression
- Section 2 Roosevelts New Deal
- Section 3 Life During the Depression
- Section 4 Effects of the New Deal
- Chapter 25 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 26 World War II 1939ndash1945
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- Section 1 Road to War
- Section 2 War Begins
- Section 3 On the Home Front
- Section 4 War in Europe and Africa
- Section 5 War in the Pacific
- Chapter 26 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 10 Turning Points 1945ndash1975
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- Chapter 27 The Cold War Era 1945ndash1954
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- Section 1 Cold War Origins
- Section 2 Postwar Politics
- Section 3 The Korean War
- Section 4 The Red Scare
- Chapter 27 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 28 America in the 1950s 1953ndash1960
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- Section 1 Eisenhower in the White House
- Section 2 1950s Prosperity
- Section 3 Problems in a Time of Plenty
- Chapter 28 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 29 The Civil Rights Era 1954ndash1973
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- Section 1 The Civil Rights Movement
- Section 2 Kennedy and Johnson
- Section 3 The Struggle Continues
- Section 4 Other Groups Seek Rights
- Chapter 29 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 30 The Vietnam Era 1960ndash1975
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- Section 1 Kennedys Foreign Policy
- Section 2 War in Vietnam
- Section 3 The Vietnam Years at Home
- Section 4 Nixon and Vietnam
- Chapter 30 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 11 Modern America 1968ndashPresent
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- Chapter 31 Search for Stability 1968ndash1981
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- Section 1 Nixons Foreign Policy
- Section 2 Nixon and Watergate
- Section 3 The Carter Presidency
- Chapter 31 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 32 New Challenges 1981ndashPresent
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- Section 1 The Reagan Presidency
- Section 2 The Bush Presidency
- Section 3 A New Century
- Section 4 The War on Terrorism
- Chapter 32 Assessment and Activities
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- Appendix
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- What Is an Appendix and How Do I Use One
- Primary Sources Library
- Presidents of the United States
- Documents of American History
- Supreme Court Case Summaries
- Gazetteer
- Glossary
- Spanish Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements and Photo Credits
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