Native Americans - Land Bridge last Ice Age -Hunting and Gathering -Agriculture develops -Ancient civilizations -adapted to their environments -close relationship to the land communal ownership -belief in universal spirit -Tribal communities

Explorers - Renaissance -Exploration Portugal Vasco Da Gama Columbus 1492 San Salvador Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Conquistadors

Impact of Contact - Columbus’ impression -colonization by force -effects of disease -importation of Africans -Treaty of Tordesillas (Tore-da- see-us) between Spain and Portugal

Impact of Contact - Columbus’ impression -colonization by force -effects of disease -importation of Africans -Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

Columbian Exchange - transfer of goods between societies -Americas sent corn, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco -Europe sent horses, cows, pigs, and technology

European Settlements -European Settlements - as European nations began to settle the New World they settled in certain areas -Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565 SW, Florida, Texas -French– Canada, Mississippi R. -Dutch—New York -English—East Coast

European Settlements - European Settlements- all along eastern Coast of America *Colony- group of people in one place & ruled by a parent country elsewhere -Spanish-- St. Augustine, Florida 1565 SW, Florida, Texas -French– Canada, Mississippi R. -English—East Coast Roanoke, NC Sir Walter Raleigh= 1 st attempt (all men) “Lost Colony”= 2 nd Attempt John White returned 13 yrs later to find “Croaton” carved in a tree

First English Attempt -Roanoke, NC Sir Walter Raleigh Lost Colony John White Virginia Dare

Virginia Company English Settlements: -Joint Stock Company – Partial ownership & share in future profits Jamestown, 1607 (est. by merchants) a town to make $ John Smith- granted a charter to set up Gov’t (written document granting land & authority to set up Govt’) “Starving Time” -more colonists -1 st democratic gov’t House of Burgesses-— First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy

Jamestown- 1 st Permanent English Colony House of Burgesses- —1619 First government in Jamestown, Virginia—It was a form of representative democracy –It had little power, but it marked the beginning of self-gov’t in Colonial America