WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR HOME IN ENGLAND TO COME TO A NEW WORLD? WHAT ARE YOUR REASONS?

DANGERS - SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES -WILD ANIMALS -FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

MOTIVATING FORCES RELIGION (Personal) MONEY (Personal) EMPIRE (National)

Important vocabulary Economic Venture- to buy into a company that creates a profit- what the colonies make, you make (Virginia Company) Pilgrims- separatists from the Church of England Puritans- wanted to purify Church of England Debtors- People who had been put into prison for owing money

ENGLISH SETTLERS

Roanoke Colony English settlers to start a colony in North America. The ship landed at Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina, and the captain headed back to England to get more supplies. By the time the boat returned, the new colonists had so angered the local Indians, they had to return to England. A second try at a colony in 1587 also failed. This time 90 men, 17 women and nine children vanished, leaving only two clues: the word “Cro” carved on a tree and “Croatoan”—the name of the local Indian tribe—carved on a gatepost. The mystery of the Lost Colony haunts historians to this day. It was not a good beginning to England’s attempts to start a colony.

Roanoke COlony ( Lost Colony) Was established as an economic venture

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JAMESTOWN

BAD PEOPLE

John Smith WE HAVE TO WORK TO SURVIVE DUMMIES

John Smith saved by Pocahontas

JAMESTOWN $$$$$$

Pocahontas and John Rolfe married

HARD WORK Make someone else do it.

Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in North America. It was an economic venture by the Virginia Company

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Plymouth Colony

PLYMOUTH

STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

The Mayflower

Mayflower Compact--- can govern themselves

Arrival on Plymouth rock (what are they doing?)

What do you see?

Plymouth Colony Settled by separatists from the Church of England who wanted to avoid religious persecution

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

SETTLED BY PURITANS

“We will be the City upon a Hill” -John Winthrop

Arrival at Mass. Bay

Create main settlement at Boston

Massachusetts Bay Settled by the Puritans for religious reasons

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Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA

Quakers being persecuted in England

Quakers do not believe in conflict, William Penn desired a good relationship to Indians

Treaty with Natives, PA open to diverse people

Creates Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Settled by the Quakers who wanted to have freedom to practice their religion without interference

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Georgia

James Oglethorpe Saw how bad debtor prisons were (knew family members who died) and then made colony for them to come for freedom

GEORGIA settled by people who had been in debtors prison in England. They hoped to experience new freedom and new life in New World

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The first English colony to be established in the New World was on the island of Roanoke just off the coast of present day North Carolina. England established the Roanoke Island colony for economic reasons (wanted to make a lot of money off of the colony). They hoped to expand trade and increase the nation’s wealth. This colony, however, was plagued by shortages of supplies and unfriendly Indians. England’s hopes for this new settlement ended in 1590 when ships carrying supplies from England arrived to find the colony abandoned and the settlers missing. Even today, historians still do not agree on what really happened to this “Lost Colony.” Why did they establish Roanoke Island? What happened to the colony? What is it now called?

England’s next attempt at establishing a colony in 1607 was successful. Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Like the Roanoke colony, it was also established for economic reasons. A group of businessmen called the Virginia Company was granted approval by King James I to settle the new lands across the Atlantic. Under the leadership of Captain John Smith, Jamestown grew and prospered. They farmed tobacco which became extremely profitable (make a lot of money)!!!!!!!!!! Jamestown is the ________________ _______________________ permanent English settlement in North America. What group of businessmen established Jamestown?

A group of people called the Pilgrims in 1620 founded the next successful English colony. They were also called separatists because they wanted to be separate from the Church of England. Being separate meant being disobedient to the king, however, so they decided to leave England in search of a safe place to practice their religion. They were avoiding religious persecution. They set sail for America on a ship called the Mayflower and landed on the shores of what is now the state of Massachusetts. They called their colony Plymouth. What are the Pilgrims also called? What were the Pilgrims avoiding? What was the ship they took? What did they call their colony?

In 1630, a religious group called the Puritans also left England for America. They wanted to change the Church of England, but realized that changed was not going to take place, they too began to look across the ocean for a safe place to practice their religion. Like the Pilgrims before them, they settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts, also to avoid religious persecution. They called their colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What did the Puritans want to do to the Church of England? Why did they look across the ocean? Like the Pilgrims before them, they settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts, also to avoid _____________________ ______________________.

About fifty years later in the 1680s, a religious group of people called Quakers settled the colony of Pennsylvania. A man named William Penn led the Quakers across the Atlantic. The Quakers were not well liked in England, and like the others before them set sail across the ocean looking for a safe place to practice their religion without interference (they did not want people telling them what religion they should be). They had great relationships with the Indians. They would also farm many oats (QUAKER OATMEAL). What colony did the Quakers form? Who led the Quakers? The Quakers wanted a safe place for what?

The last American colony called Georgia was settled almost forty years later in In England, if you did not pay back the money you owe, they sent you to prison (debtor’s prison). Many people died in those prisons and it was nearly impossible to get out of the prisons. People who had been imprisoned in England for not paying their debts settled it. They came to the new world with hopes of a new beginning and economic freedom. They wanted to start a new life without debt. Who settled Georgia? Why did they settle Georgia?