Why the English Came
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Desire For Profit.
Chance to own Land.
Desire for Employment.
Desire for Political Freedom.
Desire for Religious Freedom.
Desire for Adventure.
What did The English do when
they got here
• 3 types of colonies
(Developed between
the 1500 - 1800.
– Northern (New
England)
– Middle
– Southern
– Frontier land
• Northern Colonies
were fisherman
• Middle and Southern
were Farmers (about
90% of the New
Colonists were
farmers
Colonial Social Classes
• Upper Class or
Aristocrats
• New England Colony Merchants and
Clergyman
• Middle and Southern
Colonies - those who
owned large amounts of
land.
Colonial Social Classes Cont.
• Middle Class - in all
colonies
• Clergy, Farmers,
Shop-keepers, Ships
Captains, Carpenters,
and Blacksmiths.
Colonial Social Classes Cont.
• Redemptioners - a person from your
• Lower Classes family or wealthy person would pay for
Servants
your trip over in exchange for 2-4 years
service.
• Indentured servants - Usually a single
man between 18-30 whose passage was
paid by a wealthy individual in
exchange for 7-10 years service.
• Slaves - the first blacks were actually
indentured servants brought to
Jamestown in 1619, but people began to
keep them as slaves.
French and Indian War
• Colonization of the
New World led the
French and English to
war against one
another.
• The Indians helped the
French because there
were a lot fewer
French than English
• England was doing
poorly in the war until it
asks the colonist for
help (they told the
colonist that if they won
the colonist would get to
expand further west).
• The colonists helped
and the English won.
What happened after FI War
• Colonists were not happy,
• England became the
remember they were told
strongest nation in the
they would get to expand
world.
further west if they helped
• But they wanted to
against the French.
tighten control over
• Also they felt they were
the colonies
being taxed w/out proper
– Trade Regulations
representation.
– Closing Western Lands
• These and other issues led
– New taxes
to the American Revolution