American History:
Unit I, part II:
The English Colonies
American History:
• Quiz in a few moments (you can use
your “E-book”) for the explorers part!
When you’re done:
• Read (and highlight) “Columbus I” and
“Columbus II” in your e-backpack
Agenda: 10/20-21
• Take the explorers’ quiz
• Early English colonies:
– Jamestown
– New England
– “Middle Colonies”
In your single subject notebook:
• Write the prompt and the answer (in
complete sentences):
• Generally speaking, what do students from
other local schools think of Central Columbia
students?
What is Columbus’ legacy?
• “Legacy”:
• You make the argument:
Using the secondary sources you just
read:
• Write a letter to your Language Arts teacher:
• Start with either: “Dear Ms. Thompson,” or
“Dear Ms. Cronrath,”
• Your first two sentences: “Today in Mr. Miller’s
class we read two secondary sources about
Christopher Columbus. Using these sources, I
have determined that his legacy is
_______________.”
• Then use the sources to back up your point.
• You must make a decision (even if you don’t care
or think it is a “mixed” legacy)
Today’s agenda (10/22 & 23)
• Review Columbus’ legacy
• Instruction on the first English colonies in
“America”
• Perhaps a video clip on two such colonies
Vocab: “The Columbian Exchange”
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
• Background of English (and the rest of European)
settlement:
• Reasons for exploration: “The Three G’s”:
– “God”
– “Gold”
– “Glory”
• European exploration: Where is everyone else?
• England a little “late” in settling (cue the defeat of
the “Spanish Armada” in 1588—Sir Frances
Drake!)
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
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Let’s get some “vocabulary” out of our way:
Colony:
Joint stock company:
Charter:
EQ: How did the English set up their first colonies?
• England’s first try at colonization:
• “The Lost Colony of Roanoke”
• 1585—Sir Walter Raleigh led an expedition to what we call
the Outer Banks of North Carolina
• They left and came back to England
• 1587—he sends another group led by John White (note the
date here)….White comes back for more supplies, but can’t
come back until 1590…
• He comes back, but discovers the colonists have vanished…
• The only thing they find is the word “CROATAN” carved into
a tree
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
• Check point:
• Speculate what might have happened to the
original English Colonists to Roanoke:
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
• “The Business” of exploration:
• King James I of England:
• Granted a charter to two “joint-stock”
companies
• The one that succeeds is called: The Virginia
Company of London
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
• The Charter:
– Guaranteed to
colonists the same
rights as Englishmen
as if they had stayed
in England.
 This provision was
incorporated into
future colonists’
documents.
 Colonists felt that,
even in the Americas,
they had the rights of
Englishmen!
EQ: How did the English set up their
first colonies?
• Late 1606:
• Virginia Company sends
three ships and 150
people (crew and
passengers) to North
America
• They land in what we call
Virginia today, call the
settlement Jamestown
• About 100 men land in
April and begin
“settlement”
• By winter, only 38 of the
150 survived
– 40 died on the voyage over
– The others died by the
dozens in Jamestown!