US History › Section B · Colonial societies and the English empire › Topic B.3
English settlements in America
England came late to colonisation but soon outpaced its rivals by sending far more settlers. Two very different societies took shape: tobacco colonies around the Chesapeake Bay and Puritan colonies in New England, both built on Native land and both shaped by war with its peoples.
In this topic
- Why England sent so many people
- Jamestown's hard beginning
- Tobacco and bound labour
- The Anglo-Powhatan wars
- Worked example: Bacon's Rebellion and slavery
- Separatists at Plymouth
- Worked example: reading the Mayflower Compact
- Massachusetts Bay: a city upon a hill
- Dissent and its limits
- War in New England
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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