1. Who Came? Why’d They Come? Experience? Pilgrims, Puritans Indentured Servants English Settlers Africans

2. Who Came? Why’d They Come? Experience? Pilgrims, Puritans  Religious Freedom  Church important  Strict moral Code  Puritan work ethic (hard work is rewarding) English Settlers Indentured Servants Africans

3. Who Came? Why’d They Come? Experience? Pilgrims, Puritans  Religious Freedom  Church important  Strict moral Code  Puritan work ethic (hard work is rewarding) English Settlers  Economic opportunities (trading, farming/cash crops and new markets)  England getting crowded, vast amounts of land→upward social mobility  Colonies (permanent settlements that exist for the benefit of the mother country a.k.a. mercantilism)  Jamestown (1607) settlers faced starvation, Native Americans helped them. Indentured Servants Africans

4. Who Came? Why’d They Come? Experience? Pilgrims, Puritans  Religious Freedom  Church important  Strict moral Code  Puritan work ethic (hard work is rewarding) English Settlers  Economic opportunities (trading, farming/cash crops and new markets)  England getting crowded, vast amounts of land→upward social mobility  Colonies (permanent settlements that exist for the benefit of the mother countrya.k.a. mercantilism)  Jamestown (1607) settlers faced starvation, Native Americans helped them. Indentured Servants  Shortage of land, promised land  Master paid for voyage provided food & shelter  Few lived long enough to claim land

5. Who Came? Why’d They Come? Experience? Pilgrims, Puritans  Religious Freedom  Church important  Strict moral Code  Puritan work ethic (hard work is rewarding) English Settlers  Economic opportunities (trading, farming/cash crops and new markets)  England getting crowded, vast amounts of land→upward social mobility  Colonies (permanent settlements that exist for the benefit of the mother countrya.k.a. mercantilism)  Jamestown (1607) settlers faced starvation, Native Americans helped them. Indentured Servants  Shortage of land, promised land  Master paid for voyage provided food & shelter  Few lived long enough to claim land Africans  Sold into slavery  To produce cash crops for colonies  Suffered traveling the Middle Passage on slave ships  Some revolted  Most slaves for life

6. The Great Migration  (1630-1640) Massive movement of people from Europe to New England. -20,000 colonists lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony by 1643

7. Colonial Notes

8. New England Colonies: -Small-scale farming -Small Towns -Fishing, ship building, and Trade Middle Colonies -Port Cities, Trade -Commercial Farming -Timber, fur, iron, pottery, & glass Southern Colonies - plantations and small farms -rice, indigo,cotton and sugar -wide social differences between elites and non-elites

9. Influences on the Colonies  Political Ideas:  Gov’t By the People→Athens, Greece  Republican/Representative Gov’t →Rome  House of Burgesses (1619) established a representative lawmaking body.  Each colony was self-governed. Most governed by representative assemblies  Mercantilism: Every colony existed for the benefit of the mother country

10. Key English Documents  Magna Carta(1215)—placed limits on the Kings power (gave nobles the right to a trial)  Petition of Right(1628)—Gave certain basic rights such as habeas corpus (prevents people from being imprisoned without a trial)  English Bill of Rights (1689)—People’s rights are more important than gov’t rights (Rule of Law)

11. The Enlightenment (18 th Century)

12. MontesquieuLockeRousseauHobbesVoltaire 1.Power should be separated into branches with checks & balances 2. Natural Rights: life, liberty, and property – Social Contract: people can overthrow any gov’t that is unfair 3. Government exists only with the consent of the people. 4. People are greedy & selfish and need a strong, powerful gov’t 5. Believed in free speech, religious toleration, and intellectual freedom

13. John Locke

14. The Baron de Montesquieu

15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

16. Voltaire

17. Thomas Hobbes