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1 Because the Crown claimed sovereignty over all English
2.3 Beginnings of English Colonial Societies: 1607–1660
lands in the americas, merchants, nobles, and others
who wished to establish settlements in the new world
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had to petition King James i and his successors for a
royal charter. this video describes the companies that
established colonies, such as Virginia Company and the
plymouth Company, and shows how difficult life could be
for the first English settlers—and dangerous; in one case,
an entire colony mysteriously disappeared.
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that is, the sole possession of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. Calvert’s intention was for Baltimore to 2
the Chesapeake Unlike the colonies of new England, the Chesapeake colonies differed both in how
they were formed, as this video illustrates, and in how people lived. maryland was a proprietary colony,

become a refuge for Catholic people persecuted in England; thus, ironically, the colonists of maryland
had a better relationship with the indians than the protestant settlers of Virginia.
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3 new England this video surveys the founding of the, new England colonies, primarily the pilgrims
and puritans in massachusetts, Rhode island, and Connecticut. in achieving religious freedom from
England, however, the colonists found a new antagonist in the native americans. Both groups tried
and failed to coexist; breakdown in their relationships examined in light of the conflicts between the
wampanoag and pequot peoples.
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Jamestown the important colony of Jamestown, founded in the lower Chesapeake Bay by the Virginia
Company in 1607, is the subject of this video. Captain John Smith, Chief powhatan, and his daughter 4
pocahontas are all important figures in its early history as is the tobacco plant, which changed the
entire economy of the colony and made it one of the richest in the new world.

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the New Englanders, and soon reports of the destruction of Puritan communities reached
Virginia. “The Indians in New England have burned Considerable Villages,” wrote one leading
tobacco planter, “and have made them [the New Englanders] desert more than one hundred and
fifty miles of those places they had formerly seated.”
News of New England’s adversity did not displease Sir William Berkeley, Virginia’s royal gov-
ernor. He and his friends held the Puritans in contempt. Indeed, the New Englanders reminded
them of the religious fanatics who had provoked civil war in England and who in 1649 had exe-
cuted King Charles I. Berkeley noted that he might have shown more pity for the New Englanders
“had they deserved it of the King.” The governor, sounding like a Puritan himself, described the
Indians as the “Instruments” with which God intended “to destroy the King’s Enemies.” For good
measure, Virginia outlawed the export of foodstuffs to its embattled northern neighbors.
Such extraordinary disunity in the colonies—not to mention lack of compassion—may sur-
prise anyone searching for the roots of modern nationalism in this early period. English colonization
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