English Colonization of North America

1. English Colonization of North America Name the reasons The English settled in America.

2. Push Land scarcity Religious or Political Persecution Revolution Poverty Weather Pull Freedom (religious and political) New life Jobs Land Resources Review - What are Push-Pull Factors?

3. Reasons for Colonization • Financial $$$ • Religion • Expand the British Empire • Start a new life

4. First Unsuccessful English Colony • Roanoke Island in 1587 • The “Lost Colony” • What Happened to the Colony? • Slaughtered by Natives • Absorbed by the Natives • Weather ??

6. First Successful English Colony • Jamestown 1607 • Reason for Colony was financial $$ • Joint Stock Company • Africans introduced in 1619 • Hardships of Jamestown • Too many gentlemen • No gold • Starvation – “Starving Time”

8. Vocabulary • Joint 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)

9. 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.

11. Colony at Plymouth • The Pilgrims – Separatists (from Catholic Church and Church of England) • Reason for Colony was Religion • Hardships were Weather and Starvation • Major Contribution is the Mayflower Compact – the first form of American democracy. • Self-Government and Majority Rule

13. William Bradford • born in England • Plymouth’s 1st governor

15. Mayflower Compact Mayflower 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.

16. 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

18. John Winthrop • Puritan • “City upon a hill” • led the 1st group of Puritans to Massachusetts in 1630 • 1st governor of Massachusetts

19. Roger Williams • Puritan minister • disagreed with Puritan leaders because he believed • in religious freedom • it was wrong to take land from the Native Americans • banished from Massachusetts by Puritan leaders • founded the colony of Rhode Island

22. 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.

24. New Amsterdam • most 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

25. William Penn • wealthy English Quaker • founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682