Jamestown The Virginia Company 1607 st 1 Permanent Settlement 2nd Sons Landless Nobility New World= Free Land! Financed by the Virginia Company Noble Settlers Clueless Lacked Survival Skills Couldn’t: Farm Build Thought they would make the Native Americans their servants/slaves MONEY Spent their time searching for: Gold Silver Didn’t spend time Farming Preparing for the winter They STARVE More than half die the first year Disease Lacked resistance to native diseases Swampy land Mosquitoes John Smith Makes them work Made friends with the Natives Learned how to farm Tobacco Cash crop Makes a profit for the Virginia Company Saves the colony EQ How were the three colonial regions similar and how were they different? They all had hot summers and they had different kinds of winters. They all built ships but one of the colonies did not fish. Motivation they had was to find gold silver or bronze. New England Colonies Settlers came for Religious Freedom Puritans Separatist/Pilgrims Mayflower Compact Agreement between the settlers First example of selfgovernment in the colonies Rhode Island Rebel Anne Hutchinson Challenged church authority Thought women should have more power Got kicked out of Rhode Island Middle Colonies Mostly Profit New Amsterdam Dutch Colony Dutch West India Company Conquered by British Ships Given to the Duke of York Renamed New York Became center of shipping Pennsylvania William Quakers friends Penn The society of (Protestants) Tolerance and Equality “Holy Experiment” Southern Colonies Mostly Profit gold Named after English Monarchs Maryland = Queen Mary Carolinas = King Charles Georgia = King George Colonial Growth 1700 =250,000 people 1775 =2.5 million people Colonial Trade Raw Goods: tobacco, cotton, sugar to Europe Slaves to America Textiles, rum, etc. to Africa and America Middle Passage Brutal shipment of Slaves from Africa to the Americas Colonial Government Charter Colony- ruled by a group of settlers Proprietary Colony- ruled by the proprietor(s) Royal Colony- ruled by Britain directly All colonies had to ultimately report to Britain! Colonial Religion The Great Awakening Religious Movement Promoted Worth ideas of of each person Equality People began to demand more Political Equality The Enlightenment 1700’s Promoted the idea that: Reason and logic could improve society Benjamin Franklin Scientist Inventor Writer He was a great example of the Enlightenment way of thinking Science can improve humanity summary To begin with we talked about how people settled in the colonies. Also, they settled in places because of the motivation of god, glory, and gold. We talked about trade routes and how they sent slaves to America. Lastly, we talked about how the great awakening affected the government Click to add text
