We traveled across the ocean blue...

Hoping to find something new!

NO LONGER COMMON LAND

WHAT?!

We lost our land due to the enclosure movement*

So a lot of us moved for self-improvement

Enclosure Movement*- where small farmers had their land taken and commons lands were fenced off that were previously open to all.

We Were the Virginians!

We came for gold

John smith* was bold

He kept us alive

With our plantations* we thrived!

*John Smith- after a tough time for the Virginians, John Smith led the people to success with high work expectations 

*Plantations- a big farm that was filled with a lot of workers under the control of a single owner

We heard of the colony, Roanoke*

And we hoped it was only a joke

    HKSPO

Roanoke*- A town where Virginian settlers came to and where previous settlers had already disappeared. The previous settlers made a mark on a tree that still has not been discovered of its true meaning today.

We sailed with the Virginia Company*

Before long, our people grew to so many!

Virginia Company*- company was approved by James 1 in 1606 to colonize what would become Virginia. They promised liberty to all colonists.

The headright system* gave us land

Women without husbands had dower rights* which would later expand

Headright System*- The Virginia Company gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid for their own passage or another persons passage to Virginia. Dower Rights*- Married women had the right to claim a part of their husbands land if they were to pass on so that women had a chance to be successful

The House of Burgesses* was created 

1619 when it was dated

We Were the Virginians! 

House of Burgesses*- the first voted representatives gathering in the colonies

We traveled across the ocean blue, 

Hoping to find something new!

We were the Puritans*!

We hoped to purify 

Against anything pope-like we’d unify!

Stop the Pope!

Puritans*- a Christian religious group who was against Catholicism and wanted to purify the Church.

We came during the Great Migration*

and we believed in God's creation

Great Migration*- when a lot of Puritan people moved to the colonies during the 1930s

We followed John Winthrop’s* teachings

He governed Massachusetts' people and things

John Winthrop*- the Massachusetts governor who was a Puritan that preached about freedom

He taught us a moral liberty

Where certain people would rule society

We were the Puritans!

"Moral" liberty meant "a liberty to that only which is good"

-John Winthrop