WHY COME TO AMERICA?
MOTIVATING FORCES (Pros) Practice own RELIGION (Personal) Make MONEY (Personal) Build an EMPIRE (National)… IMPERIALISM Imperialism: policy or practice by which a country increases its power by colonizing/gaining control over other areas of the world
DANGERS (Cons) -SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES -WILD ANIMALS -FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
ENGLISH SETTLERS LAND IN VIRGINIA!
ROANOKE ISLAND The Lost Colony Founded for economic reasons by the English. 1st permanent English settlement
Journey to Jamestown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYpaG17WS4
JAMESTOWN $$$$$$
HARD WORK Make someone else do it.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
SETTLED BY PURITANS
PLYMOUTH Puritans-separatists from the Church of England who came to practice own religion freely
STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY
The Mayflower