King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter to establish an English settlement in North America in June 1606. Their objectives were to find gold and determine a course of the water that would take them to the East. The Virginia Company set foot in Jamestown on May 14, 1607 to form the English colony of Virginia. About a third of the colonists survived the "Starving Time" winter of 1609, and fifteen years later, in 1624, Virginia became a crown colony when the king rejected the Virginia Company's charter due to Algonquian attack killed over 300 settlers. Jamestown survived only because of a last-minute warning, but was burned in 1698. Many surviving colonists celebrated May Day on May 1, 1628 with Thomas Morton dancing around a maypole, but the Plymouth Pilgrims were against this celebration, and Captain Miles Standish sent Thomas Morton back to England. The intolerance continued when Anne Hutchinson was forced to leave Boston due to her religious beliefs and influence to help found Rhode Island in 1638. Five years later, Native Americans killed Anne and her family. The Quakers were the next to be forced to leave in the period between 1655 and 1656. Those who refused to leave were whipped or imprisoned, and the legislature ruled against Quaker services two years later. Parliament ordered the suspension of corporal punishment of Quakers in 1661 after three years of hanging Quakers for refusing to leave Massachusetts. English law in the colonies also severely affected slaves. Those who converted to Christianity and became legal residents of Maryland were granted freedom, until 1664. It was then that Maryland passed a law establishing lifetime servitude for black slaves...... middle of paper. .....rr/ social%20studies/05/0101firstwi.htmlQuidor, J. (2011). In the Encyclopedia Britannica. Network. November 14, 2015. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487273/John-QuidorStarwinar. (2010. Herman or Henry. Web. November 29, 2015. http://starwinar.wordpress.com/daily-short-story/herman-or-henry/The Virtual Union. (2011). Scrape the world's TV onto your side. -your-side.htmlWikipedia. 2011). com/The+Scarlet+LetterWordPress (2007) Young Goodman Brown Web. /young-goodman-marrone/