1. Early Colonies have Mixed Success

2. Goals of European Exploration
First Americans – Land bridge from Siberia
Spread Christianity, expand empires, and gain $$
Spanish, British, French, and Dutch = explored U.S.
Looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia.

3. English Plan Colonies England vs. Spain
1588 England defeats Spanish Armada
Began looking for colonies

4. English Plan Colonies Colonies = new markets and raw materials
Increase trade, spread Protestant faith
Mercantilism: state controls trade and attempts to transfer wealth from colonies to parent country

5. Why People left England
                                                                
"We're here to escape religious persecution.Why are you here?
No economic opportunity
Escape religious persecution
Free trade

6. Two Early Colonies Fail
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sponsored the colony at Roanoke called Virginia
Mysteriously disappeared
Native Americans cut off food supply
Colonists trying to take land
Sagadahoc failed in Maine

7. Financing a Colony Joint – Stock Company Companies backed by investors
Profits and losses are divided

8. Jamestown 1607 Financed by the Virginia Company’
Located in present day Virginia’
Colony a failure in the beginning

9. Jamestown Grows John Smith takes control
“Don’t work, don’t eat” policy
Built a wall around the settlement
Convinced the Powhatan to trade corn

10. Problems with the Powhatan
Indians stopped trading food and attacked settlers
“Starving Time”
Colonists ate mice, rats, and snakes
Thousands died

11. Jamestown Rescued
1612, John Rolfe dev. a high grade tobacco that the colonists learned to grow
Became very popular in England
Colonists wanted a share of profits
50 acres given to anyone of could pay passage
First African Americans in Jamestown in 1619.

12. Need for Labor More labor needed for tobacco farming
Indentured Servants
Sold labor in return for passage to the colony
Worked off the price for passage then were free

13. Big Brother in London
Strict rules from the Governor who rep. the Virginia Company’s interest in London
Colonists wanted local control
Elected reps. of the colonists would meet once a year
House of Burgesses
1st rep. assembly in America

14. Conflicts with the Powhatan
Cultural differences
More colonists = more trouble
1614 John Rolfe married Pocahontas to ease tensions
1622, colonists made land grabs
Powhatan killed hundreds of Jamestown residents

15. Bacon’s Rebellion
1670’s, ¼ of free white men were former indentured servants
Wanted land
Nathaniel Bacon vs. Gov. William Berkeley
Bacon wanted a war against the Indians to gain land
Berkeley refused
Bacon took Jamestown hostage

16. Bacon’s Rebellion Bacon’s sudden death ended the rebellion
King Charles II recalled Gov. Berkeley to England
Main Effect: H of B passed laws to prevent a royal governor from gaining such power again

17. Daily Assignment Title paper Chp.3 sec.1 Read from 85-89
Answer ?’s #1-4