English Colonization of
North America
Warm Up:
Name the reasons The English settled in America.
Review - What are Push-Pull
Factors?
 Push
 Pull
◦ Land scarcity
◦ Religious or
Political
Persecution
◦ Revolution
◦ Poverty
◦ Weather
◦ Freedom
(religious and
political)
◦ New life
◦ Jobs
◦ Land
◦ Resources
Reasons for Colonization
Financial $$$
 Religion
 Expand the British Empire
 Start a new life

First Unsuccessful English Colony
Roanoke Island in 1587
 The “Lost Colony”
 What Happened to the Colony?

◦ Slaughtered by Natives
◦ Absorbed by the Natives
◦ Weather ??
First Successful English Colony
 Jamestown 1607
 Reason for Colony
was financial $$
◦ Joint Stock Company
◦ Africans introduced in 1619
 Hardships
of Jamestown
◦ Too many gentlemen
◦ No gold
◦ Starvation – “Starving Time”
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)

 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 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
William Bradford
born in England
 Plymouth’s 1st governor

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.
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 1630
 1st governor of Massachusetts

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

Jamestown
1606
People
Reasons for
Moving
Hardships /
How it
finally
worked
Leadership
and
Government
Plymouth
1620
Massachusetts
Bay - 1630
Jamestown
1606
Plymouth
1620
Massachusetts
Bay - 1630
People
John Smith
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson (RI)
Roger Williams (RI)
Reasons for
Moving
Joint-Stock
Company
Profit
Pilgrims Separatists
Religion
Puritans – Profit and
religion
“City Upon a Hill”
Hardships /
How it finally
worked
Malaria / Dystentery Hunger / Cold /
/ “Starving Time”
Illness
Tobacco
Corn / Good
relations with
Natives, Furs, Fish
Salem Witch Trials
Disagreements with
Leadership
“Great Migration”
Leadership and
Government
John Smith
House of Burgesses
Church and Government
Elected Council
John Winthrop
Williams and Hutchinson
go to RI
Mayflower
Compact
William Bradford
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 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
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