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English Settlements
Essential Question
How did Native Americans, Europeans,
and Africans contribute to the
settlement
and growth of South Carolina during
its earliest days?
LESSON 3
England’s Colonies are
Successful
English settlers brought
their culture, including
their language,
Protestant religions,
and ideas about selfselfgovernment.
Sir Walter Raleigh given
land by Queen Elizabeth
I to start a
settlement that was
eventually unsuccessful
- Roanoke
1580s—The
1580s The English became
interested in America.
They began claiming lands for
the English king along the
Atlantic Coast.
Some of the colonists wanted
to find wealth, while many
others were fleeing
religious persecution.
persecution.
Location map for Jamestown
and/or image of settlement
And we know what
happened in
Jamestown……
Jamestown
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Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia made up the
Southern Colonies
Jamestown colonists created
the first legislative assembly .
. . the House of Burgesses.
The headright system promoted
the establishment of large
tobacco plantations and
brought new colonists to the
region.
House of Burgesses
Virginia colonists
created the
House of
Burgesses, which
was the first
legislative
assembly in what
would become the
United States.
Maryland: a Catholic Colony
Catholics did not have
freedom of religion in
England.
England.
The Baltimore family
received permission to
create a colony where
English Catholics could
stay loyal to the crown,
but worship as they
pleased.
pleased.
Plantation owners secured
workers by paying for the
passage of Indentured
Servants.
Servants.
Slavery became the favored
form of labor.
Georgia served as a buffer
between the English and
Spanish colonies.
Tobacco farming
required labor. At
first plantation
owners used
indentured servants.
Then, they started
using slaves from
Africa.
The first African
slaves arrived in
Virginia in 1619.
The colony was named
Maryland and soon
came to be settled
by colonists of all
religions.
Maryland farmers
planted tobacco and
the colony
prospered.
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Life in the South
There were plenty of smaller
farms in the South, but life
revolved around the large
plantations.
plantations.
Population was spread out,
limiting city growth.
growth.
Compared to other regions,
there were fewer churches
and schools in the South.
The Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Delaware.
The Middle Colonies had the
greatest diversity of people,
religions, and economic
activities.
activities.
The Dutch settled New
Amsterdam (New York)
and the Swedes settled
Delaware.
Quaker Influence
William Penn founded
Pennsylvania, basing it on
the ideas of the Society
of Friends or Quakers.
The Quakers believe in
equality for all people,
they renounced war and
allowed all people to
worship freely.
freely.
South Carolina: a Unique Colony
By the time of the
Revolutionary War,
South Carolina was the
wealthiest of all colonies.
It was also one of the
most ethnically diverse
populations.
Slave population second
only to Virginia.
The farms of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Delaware
provided food for the
growing slave populations in
the South and Caribbean.
Known as the “breadbasket” of
the colonies.
English Puritans also moved
into the Middle Colonies.
Colonies.
New England Colonies
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and Rhode Island
made up the New England
colonies
New England colonies were
founded as a religious haven
for religious groups
persecuted in England.
England.
Shipbuilding, fishing, and textiles
were big in New England.
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Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact
The Separatists (Pilgrims),
received permission to
move to the New World and
create their own colony.
Sailing on the ship Mayflower,
they landed at Plymouth
after signing the Mayflower
Compact.
This was the first form of
self government in what is
now the United States.
The Pilgrims
Initially, the Pilgrims
struggled to
survive, but the
local Native
Americans helped
them plant corn to
survive.
Puritans Settle New England
Another group of reformreformminded Protestants—the
Protestants the
Puritans—established
Puritans established the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in
the 1620s in.
Puritans were English
Protestants who wanted to
purify the church from
within.
Massachusetts prospered, but
the Puritans did not have
much tolerance for other
beliefs.
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