Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World

Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World — page 9
Earliest colonies Three Saints Bay 5sian Quebec Frore mouth English Pennsylvania New Amsterdam paten Waiah Penn s For Christine Swedish Colony Jamestown English Savannah Georgia English St Augustine Spanish Fort Ross Russian San Dieаo Spanish Santa Fe Spanish Most newcomers expected to find some sort of riches in the New World They thought there would be a lot of gold and some ships were sent back to England full of fool's gold actually rocks of pyrite that sparkled like gold but they were worthless Every citizen in England had to belong to the Church of England which was headed by the King A group of people who called themselves separatists wanted to form their own church because they didn't want to belong to the Church of England They went to the Netherlands but weren't happy living there because their children were learning Dutch ways and forgetting their English culture The separatists decided to journey to the New World on a ship named the Mayflower In exchange for passage and some supplies the future colonists agreed to send back valuable goods for the merchants to sell in Eng Page 17