Post on 02-Jan-2016
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• Originally founded by Sir Walter Raleigh
• John White led expedition to stay permanently in 1587.
• 119 men, women and children
• Colony disappeared
• Virginia Dare first European white born
Jamestown
• Founded by the Virginia Company• John Smith said to have saved Jamestown(If
you don’t work, you don’t eat)• Pocahontas---Indian Princess married John
Rolfe• Starving Time---1609-10 60 out of 838 survive• Colony revived by use of indentured servants
and slaves• Beginning of Government ( House of Burgesses)
• Separatists---Pilgrims• 102 people on Mayflower• Sailed 66 days---landed off course at
Cape Cod• Set up Self-Government---Mayflower
Compact• Elected a Governor---William Bradford• Practiced Faith, Courage and
Determination
1634---Maryland
• Founded by Lord Baltimore
• Established as a refuge for Catholics
• Eventually opened to all that would work hard
1664---New York
• Originally Dutch---New Netherlands
• Governed by Pete Stuyvesant (Pegleg Pete)
• Stolen by the Duke of York and renamed New York
1682---Pennsylvania
• Founded by William Penn
• Religious refuge for Quakers
• Principles of brotherhood and equality
• All were welcome
1733---Georgia
• Founded by James Oglethorpe
• Refuge for debtors
• Founded as a social experiment
• Served as a strategic buffer against Spanish owned Florida