https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0 en-us 2022-09-23 01:42:58 UTC 2022-10-03 23:44:49 UTC hello@padlet.com emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309767735 Jamestown, Virginia, established the first permanent English colony 

Causes and effects: The reason Jamestown was founded is because settlers wanted to gain more wealth and profit from gold mining as well as wanting to experience religious freedom and to evade from the taxes being imposed to them in England. 

During what was known as "The Starving Time," (where there was famine, disease, contaminated water, etc.) colonists resorted to cannibalism as a way to survive through the harsh winters. During the first 2 years 100 colonists had died. ]]> 2022-09-23 02:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309767735 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309786951 Founding of Quebec (based on the primary source journals of some of our biggest historical figures)]]> 2022-09-23 02:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309786951 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309788986 In September of 1609, Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River along with the Delaware Bay in order to the help the Dutch 
- The Hudson River also became a strategic waterway during the American Revolution and was the scene for later battles.  

]]> 2022-09-23 02:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309788986 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309793021 John Rolfe started farming and harvesting tobacco in 1614, which quickly became a popular cash crop in Jamestown. It helped with the colonies success. 
- John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers to arrive in Jamestown
- trade between English and Spain was effected by the production of tobacco
- John Rolfe grew this crop in order to undercut the Spanish tobacco trade 
- John Rolfe also met and married Pocahontas
- ]]> 2022-09-23 02:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309793021 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309794937 August 20th of 1619, the first Africans arrive at Jamestown with the House of Burgesses, which was known as the first democratically elected body in English North America. ]]> 2022-09-23 02:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309794937 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309803151 Mayflower Compact/Founding of Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)]]> 2022-09-23 02:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2309803151 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322343037 The founding of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, Maryland, New Haven colony, and Connecticut ]]> 2022-10-02 01:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322343037 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322343256 King Charles I was executed and there was an establishment of the Commonwealth in England]]> 2022-10-02 01:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322343256 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322344722 On October 27, 1656, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher (two Englishwomen) became the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship that was carrying them lands at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ]]> 2022-10-02 01:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322344722 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322347697 September 19th of 1676, Bacon writes the "Declaration of the People of Virginia. 

POWER STRUGGLE BETEWEEN TWO VERY STRONG PERSONALATIES ]]> 2022-10-02 02:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322347697 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322354802 2022-10-02 02:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322354802 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322789048 Samuel de Champlain found Quebec
- he was the key to French expansion in the New World
- he mapped out the St. Lawrence River 
- known as the "Father of New France" ]]> 2022-10-02 17:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322789048 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322793547 2022-10-02 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322793547 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322798231 The Mayflower Compact was what laid the foundation for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. 
- It was the first signed document
- It was an agreement to bind colonists together by law
- a religious document, in that it held that the people derived their right of self-government from God]]> 2022-10-02 18:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322798231 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322802153 The 53 pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving were the only colonists to survive the long journey on the Mayflower and the first winter in the New World. 
]]> 2022-10-02 18:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322802153 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322815671 Struggle between the Powhatan Indian confederacy and early English settlers in the tidewater section of Virginia and southern Maryland. 

The end of the last Powhatan war ended with the chief's death. ]]> 2022-10-02 18:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322815671 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322817672 Later we see that the Powhatan Wars in some way led to the Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon. 
- These wars led to the destruction of the Indian power]]> 2022-10-02 18:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322817672 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322824508 Because of the rebellion people did not want anyone to get together and rebel against anyone
- The way they did this was increasing slavery
- During Bacon's Rebellion, poor whites, indentured servants, etc. came together with one common goal of getting rid of Berkeley
- Because of this, in 1705 chattel slavery became legalized
- Chattel slavery is owning enslaved people and their families as property to be bought and sold for labor]]> 2022-10-02 18:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322824508 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322827763 An economic depression, increasing conflicts with the natives, and discontent over the governor’s policies were but a few among several other likely causes.

Primary Source: “We accuse Sir William Berkeley as guilty of each and every one of the same, and as one who has traitorously attempted, violated, and injured his Majesty’s interest here by a loss of a great part of this his colony and many of his faithful loyal subjects by him betrayed and in a barbarous and shameful manner exposed to the incursions and murder of the heathen" An excerpt from Bacon's Declaration]]> 2022-10-02 18:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322827763 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322835745

Thomas Jefferson - "the greatest lawgiver the world has produced"

- William Penn founded Pennsylvania
- He first called it Sylvania because when he came upon it, it was just a bunch of trees in a forest
- He then named Pennsylvania after his father
- Penn wanted to come to the New World for more religious freedom for the Quakers
- He wrote a letter to his friend in America that stated, "there may be room there, though not here."
- He also named Philadelphia as the city of brotherly love
 ]]> 2022-10-02 19:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322835745 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322843441 The Pilgrims needed something to occupy their kids time after the feast so they came up with a game called Hubbub. This was used as a way for them to trade with each other. ]]> 2022-10-02 19:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322843441 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322865834 2022-10-02 19:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322865834 emmanoskey https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322896064 The reason for the end of the Great Plague of London was the Great Fire of London]]> 2022-10-02 20:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/diligentrestco/txzoerzoiw7oc0/wish/2322896064