Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Elementary Instruction in United States History and Civil Government I. Virginia. Jamestown settled by the London Company under Royal Charter, 1607. Character of the colonists. John Smith. The Starving Time. Tobacco planting and prosperity of the Colony. The Navigation Acts. Indian Wars. Introduction of Negro Slavery Bacon's Rebellion. Relation of the Colony to England. II. Massachusetts. 1. Settlement of Plymouth Colony, 1620. The Puritans and Separatists in England. Landing of the Pilgrims; their character and sufferings; the Mayflower compact; Gov. Brad ford. 2. Massachusetts Bay Colony. Settlement of Salem (1628) and Charleston by Endicott. Charter granted to the Colony. The Massachusetts Company transferred to America Settlement of Boston by Winthrop 3. Massachusetts Bay established by union of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies, together with province of Maine and territory of Nova Scotia Growth and prosperity of the Colony. 4. The Town meeting. Religious troubles. Quakers. Salem witchcraft. Attention given to education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.