Unit 1 - From New World To Revolution Day 3– The English Colonies

Warm Up – Walk and Talk  #1) BE SURE TO GRAB YOUR WARM-UP SHEET  #2) Everybody will be getting a slip of paper with a quote from De La Casas  #3) You will need to walk around the classroom and find multiple different quotes.  #4) Create a free response on De La Casas and his accounts

The Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

The English Arrive - 1st Theme – Restless People  Primogeniture (elders benefit)  Enclosure Acts /Overcrowding  Unemployment  Religious Oppression

The English Arrive – 2 nd Theme – Political Opportunity  Spanish Wealth and Control inspires  1588 Spanish Armada defeated (opens Atlantic)  Religious Institutions and Government unrest

3 Types of Colonies  Corporate (Joint Stock) – Investment Centered  Royal Colonies – charter from the king under his control  Proprietary – charter from king governed by individuals  ****all will eventually become royally****

Settling North America  1 st Settlement – Roanoke – Sir Walter Raleigh 1585 Disappeared without warning  Virginia Company (Joint Stock Company)– Jamestown – John Smith 1607

Virginia - Political  1619 House of Burgesses - 1 st elected assembly in N.A.  ***Only landowners were elected***  By 1624 Jamestown/VA becomes a royal colony

Virginia - Economic  Seeking Gold  “starving time” leads to shift  John Rolfe makes tobacco GOLD

Turn and Talk -Tobacco Prices: Why did tobacco prices decline so precipitously?

Virginia - Social  Culture Clash between English and Natives  Powhatan Indians – Positive relationships due to Pocahontas /Rolfe

Virginia - Social  Attempts at positive relationships destroyed by tobacco (land)  1 st Powhatan War – 1622  2 nd  Tobacco leads to 2 labor force issues  Indentured Servitude (Headright System)  Slavery (1619)

What do you see?

Powhatan fall  The 3 Ds:  Disease  Disorganization  Disposability

Today’s Activity  Small Group Rotations  Create Free-Form Picture/Word Map that categorizes text information Colony details (settlement, etc) Political Aspects Social Aspects Economic Aspects  Divide tasking in group; be prepared to present to class  Classmates will take Cornell Notes on presentations

Key ideas to make sure you now!!!  Maryland: Lord Baltimore, Catholic Haven,1633 Act of Toleration  West Indies: Sugar Plantation (no food), African Slaves, Barbados Slave Codes  Carolinas: Restoration Colonies, Slavery transfer from W. Indies (S.C), Rice and Indigo  Georgia: Buffer state between Spanish FL, Founded by Oglethrope, prisoners haven, last of 13 colonies

Questions to Answer CHESAPEAKE QUESTIONS DUE IN CLASS 9/24 DIRECTIONS: There are 10 questions total on the next two slides. On separate sheets of paper, answer the following questions. I expect detailed answers with proof from the Powerpoint, book, and previous historical knowledge.  1) What were the three D’s which finally led to Powhatan’s fall? What would you have done if you were in Powhatan’s position?  2) How did Native life change with the arrival of the English?  3) Describe the Importance AND potential implications of Virginia’s cash crop? Positives and negatives?  4) Describe key points of Maryland. Name at least 5.  5) Highlight developments of Sugar in the West Indies  Remember 6-10 on the next slide!

Questions to Answer  6) To what extent did the Civil War in England affect colonization in the New World?  7) Describe and analyze the development of the Carolinas…founding? Slaves? Crops? Religion?  8) What was the relationship between colonials in the Carolinas and the natives?  9) The purpose of Georgia? Its highlights in foundation? Crops and materials for import/export?  10) Compare the plantation colonies? Religion? System of labor? Other factors?