Crash Course #2

Today, we will discuss Crash Course #2 and read about Jamestown.  As we read, take notes according to the Seven Unit Themes (we'll go over the themes).  You will need to turn in an outline (notes) of the chapter after we finish reading.

Crash Course Video #2: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America

Background: This video describes why and how the first ENGLISH settlers came to America. It first discusses the economic motivations for those settlers who arrived in Virginia in the very early 1600s; then it looks at the Pilgrims and Puritans who settled in Massachusetts beginning around 1620 for both economic and religious reasons. It looks at the deathly struggles they faced in the New World, their early successful relations with the Native Americans, their hopes for a new society and how they adapted to their conditions.

1. Why did those who arrived in Virginia from England come to America?

2. Those who established the colony of Jamestown, Virginia hoped to find ________________, which did not

exist.

3. Explain, in general, what happened to the settlers of Jamestown by 1610.

4. How did the headright system encourage more people to leave England and come to America.

5. Explain how indentured servants were different from slaves.

6. What “drug” saved the economy of Virginia?

7. Together, Virginia and Maryland were known as the “Chesapeake colonies” (because they are both located

along Chesapeake Bay. Maryland was founded in what year?  It was a settlement for which

religious group?

8. Which religious group founded Massachusetts?

9. Most of those who settled in New England (which is where Massachusetts is located) were Protestant

Christians. What did they believe about the Protestant Church of England?

10. In 1620 the Pilgrims founded what colony?

11. What was the Mayflower Compact?

12. Who helped all the Pilgrims from dying, shortly after their arrival in Plymouth?

13. Explain how the concept of “a city upon a hill” teaches us about why the Puritans came to America.

14. Were the Puritans “big on equality”? Explain, giving examples.

15. Explain why both Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banished from (kicked out of)

Massachusetts, and explain what these banishments tell us about Puritan society.

16. Outline the three colonies presented in this video: Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts.