English Colonization of
North America
Review - What are Push-Pull
Factors?
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Push
 Land
scarcity
 Religious or
Political
Persecution
 Revolution
 Poverty
 Weather
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Pull
 Freedom
(religious
and political)
 New life
 Jobs
 Land
 Resources
Reasons for Colonization
 Financial
$$$
 Religion
 Expand
the British Empire
 Start a new life
First Unsuccessful English Colony
 Roanoke
Island in 1587
 The “Lost Colony”
 What Happened to the Colony?
 Slaughtered
by Natives
 Absorbed by the Natives
 Weather ??
First Successful English Colony
Jamestown 1607
 Reason for Colony was financial $$
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 Joint
Stock Company
 Africans introduced in 1619
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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)
 House of Burgessess – legislative assembly
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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
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William Bradford
 born
in England
 Plymouth’s 1st governor
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
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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 Plymouth Massachusetts
Bay - 1630
1606
1620
People
Reasons for
Moving
Hardships /
How it
finally
worked
Leadership
and
Government
Jamestown Plymouth Massachusetts
Bay - 1630
1606
1620
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
Mayflower
Compact
William Bradford
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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William Penn
wealthy English
Quaker
 founded the colony
of Pennsylvania in
1682
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13 English Colonies
 Split
into 3 Regions
 New
England
 Middle
 Southern
Map Activity
 Label
the 13 colonies.
 Color the middle colonies one color,
New England colonies a different
color, and southern colonies another
color.
 One the back of the page, create a
chart.
The Thirteen Colonies
New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Middle
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Southern
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Colonial Regions
NE
Middle
Southern
Climate
Resources
Social Class
Long winter,
short growing
season
Short winters
Rocky soil,
good fishing
grounds
Larger farms,
cash crops of
grain
Plantation,
limited cash
crops
Middle class
Warm, yearround growing
season
Poor, middle
class
Rich noble
families, poor,
indentured
servants
French & Indian War 1754-1763
 French
and Indian allies fight Britain
for control of North America.
Effects of the War
 British
empire grows
 Colonists had to pay for the war
 Proclamation of 1763 said settlers
could not go west of the Appalachian
Mountains
 see page 94
Notebook
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Citizenship Question
Ch 1 Sec 1 Notes
Vocabulary
Map
Important Peeps
Exploration Notes
Colonization Notes
Review
Planner