1. 1st English Colonies to French and Indian War
Review
1st English Colonies to
French and Indian War

2. Motivations for English Colonization
Rise in middle class
Joint-Stock Companies
More money = Opportunity to invest
Surplus Population
Georgia: debtors’ refuge
Religious Freedom
Puritans and Pilgrims (Mass), Quakers (Penn), Catholics (Maryland)

3. Jamestown, VA 1st Successful Eng Col. Settled on James R.
Key Contributors
John Smith
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Nathaniel Bacon
Indentured Servants

4. Key Contributors to Jamestown
Capt. John Smith
John Rolfe

5. Bacon’s Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon 1676 Former Indentured Servants
Demanded government protect them
Burned House of Burgesses
Failed when Bacon died
Led to African Slavery

6. The Middle Passage = Slavery

7. The Puritans Massachusetts Bay Col Purify Church of Eng. John Winthrop
Town Meetings fostered self-government
Religion dominated life--theocracy

8. Puritan Dissenters
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams

9. The Pilgrims Plymouth Colony William Bradford
Separate from Church of England
Helped by Squanto—1st Thanksgiving
Mayflower Compact

10. Pennsylvania and the Quakers
Haven for Quakers
William Penn
Tolerance = diversity
Settled Philadelphia
Got along well with Natives

11. James Oglethorpe’s Georgia
Last Colony to be settled--1730s
Debtors’ Colony
Buffer Zone from Spanish Florida

12. The Original Thirteen Colonies

13. Self-Government in the Colonies
Virginia Charter
Massachusetts Bay Charter
House of Burgesses (VA)
Mayflower Compact (MA)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Maryland Toleration Act
Salutary Neglect also helped

14. 1st Great Awakening 1730s Purely American Movement
J. Edwards and G. Whitefield
Return to religious roots

15. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanac
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Albany Plan of Union

16. John Peter Zenger Trial
Wrote against NY government
Punished, but sued
Helped w/ principle of freedom of the press

17. English vs. French Colonies

18. French and Indian War Battle over Ohio Country
French allied w/ Natives
Iroquois did side w British
Battles of Quebec and Montreal were turning points
G. Ft. Necessity started war
Fort Loudon Massacre in Tennessee
English won, claimed LOTS of LAND

19. Results of French and Indian War

20. Westward Ho!
Daniel Boone
Wilderness Road

21. Westward Whoa! Colonists wanted to move west of App. Mts.
Created conflict with Native Americans
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763 banned western migration
Infuriated colonists!