English Colonization of North America

Warm Up:Name the reasons The English settled in America.

Review - What are Push-Pull Factors?Push

◦Land scarcity◦Religious or Political Persecution

◦Revolution◦Poverty◦Weather

Pull◦Freedom (religious and political)

◦New life◦Jobs◦Land◦Resources

Reasons for ColonizationFinancial $$$ReligionExpand the British EmpireStart a new life

First Unsuccessful English Colony

Roanoke Island in 1587The “Lost Colony”What Happened to the Colony?

◦Slaughtered by Natives◦Absorbed by the Natives◦Weather ??

First Successful English Colony

Jamestown 1607Reason for Colony was financial $$

◦Joint Stock Company◦Africans introduced in 1619

Hardships of Jamestown◦Too many gentlemen◦No gold◦Starvation – “Starving Time”

VocabularyJoint Stock Company – investors pool

money to pay for colonization in hopes of making money

Headright System – 50 acres of land colonists could obtain (offered by the VA co)

Major Contributions of Jamestown◦Cash Crop ---Tobacco - John Rolfe◦Introduction of Indentured Servants

Indentured Servants: Poor Europeans that wanted to come to the colonies, but couldn’t afford to come. Passage was paid by colonial land owners in return for manual labor. A contract was generally 3 – 5 years.

Colony at PlymouthThe Pilgrims – Separatists (from Catholic Church and Church of England)

Reason for Colony was ReligionHardships were Weather and StarvationMajor Contribution is the Mayflower Compact – the first form of American democracy.

Self-Government and Majority Rule

William Bradford born in EnglandPlymouth’s 1st governor

Mayflower CompactMayflower Compact – Signed by 41

men on the Mayflower. They agreed to be governed by leaders chosen by the people and agreed to obey all laws that were made.

Puritans – Massachusetts Bay Colony

group that wanted to “purify” the Church of England

many moved to America during the Great Migration

had strict laws that centered on religion

John Winthrop Puritan“City upon a hill”led the 1st group of Puritans to

Massachusetts in 16301st governor of Massachusetts

Roger Williams Puritan ministerdisagreed with Puritan leaders because he

believed◦in religious freedom◦it was wrong to take land from the Native

Americansbanished from Massachusetts by Puritan

leadersfounded the colony of Rhode Island

Jamestown1606

Plymouth1620

Massachusetts Bay - 1630

People

Reasons for Moving

Hardships / How it finally worked

Leadership and Government

Jamestown1606

Plymouth1620

Massachusetts Bay - 1630

People John SmithPocahontasJohn Rolfe

William Bradford

John WinthropAnne Hutchinson (RI)Roger Williams (RI)

Reasons for Moving

Joint-Stock CompanyProfit

Pilgrims - SeparatistsReligion

Puritans – Profit and religion“City Upon a Hill”

Hardships / How it finally worked

Malaria / Dystentery / “Starving Time”Tobacco

Hunger / Cold / IllnessCorn / Good relations with Natives, Furs, Fish

Salem Witch TrialsDisagreements with Leadership“Great Migration”

Leadership and Government

John SmithHouse of Burgesses

Mayflower CompactWilliam Bradford

Church and Government Elected CouncilJohn WinthropWilliams and Hutchinson go to RI

House of Burgesses 1619

Our first legislative body. It was–in Virginia. They could make laws and raise taxes. But, the governor had final say.

New Amsterdammost important

Dutch settlement in what is now the U.S.

located on Manhattan Island

renamed New York City when taken over by the English in 1664