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Do Now - Monday Identify three essentials required to establish a long term colony? Support your answer.
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Essential Questions - Monday
(Q1) What brought Europe to America? (Q2) How did the English adapt to the New World? (Q3) What is the location of the New England colonies? (Q4) Who founded the New England colonies? (Q5) What were the reasons for settling the New England colonies?
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Exit Ticket – Monday How do you think geography affected the development of the New England Colonies. Support your answer.
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Do Now - Wednesday How do you think geography would affect the development of the Middle Colonies
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Essential Questions - Wednesday
(Q1) What is the location of the Middle Colonies? (Q2) Who founded the Middle Colonies? (Q3) What were the reasons for settling the Middle Colonies? (Q4) What is the location of the Southern Colonies? (Q5) Who founded the Southern Colonies? (Q6) What were the reasons for settling the Southern Colonies?
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Exit Ticket – Wednesday
How do you think geography affected the development of the New England Colonies. Support your answer.
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Do Now - Thursday How do you think geography would affect the development of the Southern Colonies
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New Colonies in North America
European countries starting colonies Spain Portugal France Dutch
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Question 1 On which island did England first try, and fail, to establish colonies in North America? (pg 66) Roanoke Island
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Early English Settlements
Roanoke – 1585 Jamestown
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Main Characters King James I - granted charter to Virginia Company
John Smith - saved settlement of Jamestown Powhatan - chief of tribe by Jamestown
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Jamestown Seeking financial gain The Starving Time
The House of Burgesses - representative government - governor appointed by King Africans come to Virginia - indentured servants
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The Plymouth Colony Seeking religious freedom The Mayflower Compact
Squanto introduces new food crops/fishing - corn, beans, pumpkins and eels The first Thanksgiving
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The New England Colonies
The Massachusetts Bay Colony Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony
King Charles I attacks Puritans - they wished to reform Church of England John Winthrop - becomes leader of Puritan party Boston main city General Court/Governor are elected by people Does not support religious toleration
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Rhode Island Roger Williams founder of Rhode Island
- buys land from Indians Providence becomes main city Obtains charter to be separate from Boston Establishes right to worship any faith Attracted Jewish settlers
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New York Anne Hutchinson - from Boston, expelled from Massachusetts
Eventually travels into what is now New York
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Connecticut Founded by Thomas Hooker Main city is Hartford
Governed by Fundamental Orders - elected legislature and govenor
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New Hampshire Founded by John Wheelright
- forced to leave Massachusetts Main city is Exeter
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Growth and Change Towns & churches believed in self-government
- town meeting = governing body King Phillip’s War (Chief Metacom) - attacked/destroyed many settlements - was captured and killed - many Indians had died from diseases carried European settlers
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The Middle Colonies New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware
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New York Began as a Dutch colony based on fur trade English conquer it
Main city is New York
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New Jersey Was a proprietary colony Became a royal colony
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Pennsylvania Founder William Penn Charter by Charles II
Quakers settle it from - England, Germany, Holland and Switzerland Frame of Government - elected assembly - religious freedom - Indian rights protected
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Delaware Settlers were from Sweden
Originally under Penn but given a separate assembly for government Eventually became a separate colony
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Growth and Change Contained fertile soil and large population
Great Wagon Road – path to south Economy - farming = wheat (America’s breadbasket) - manufacturing = flour, iron, paper - artisans = shoemakers, carpenters, masons, weavers and coppers
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The Southern Colonies Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia
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Geography of the Southern Colonies
Mason Dixon Line - created to resolve border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania climate is warm and humid Land excellent for farming which introduced the desire for slavery
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Virginia Population grows (more women and children)
Native American population shrinks - disease, armed conflict Bacon’s Rebellion (Nathaniel Bacon) - poor farmers looking for land in west - governor denies assistance in stopping Indians Rebellion collapses with Bacon’s death (sick)
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Maryland Granted charter under Charles I Founded by Lord Baltimore
First settlers included Catholics & Protestants Representative government Act of Toleration – right to vote given to all male Christians
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Carolinas Carolinas granted charter under Charles I
Main city Charleston Agriculture grew with sugar and rice Promoted the use of slave labor
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Georgia Founded by James Oglethorpe Buffer state between Spain/England
Protection against debtors’ prison Slavery banned at first
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Change in Southern Colonies
Coastal Areas (Tidewater Region) - plantations of sugar, rice, cotton Slavery started in Virginia and Maryland and spread south when planters found other crops to export at a profit Backcountry - poor of the South - Felt rich protected the rich
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Question 2 A document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company, is called a... (pg 67) charter
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Question 3 The first permanent English settlement in North America was at... (pg 67) Jamestown
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Question 4 Which man was sent by the English in 1608 to take charge of the first permanent English settlement in North America? (pg 67) John Smith
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Question 5 Indian chief Powhatan refused to supply food to colonists, hoping to get them to leave, in a period called the... (pg 68) "starving time"
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Question 6 The crop that saved Jamestown and became a big source of income for them was… (pg 68-69) tobacco
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Question 7 The form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them is a… (pg 69) representative government
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Question 8 The first representative government in North America was Virginia's... (pg 69) House of Burgesses
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Question 9 Mayflower Compact
Before coming ashore, 41 Pilgrim men signed the _____, calling for a government to make fair laws in their new colony. (pg 70) Mayflower Compact
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Question 10 What religious group founded the colony Massachusetts in the 1630's? (pg 72) The Puritans
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Question 11 The Puritans elected which assembly as their government? (pg 73) General Court
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Question 12 Which religious group believed that all people are created equal? (pg 78) Quakers
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Question 13 Which region of the thirteen English colonies was known as “America’s breadbasket, because the soil and climate there was great for growing food crops such as wheat and corn? (pg 80) Middle colonies
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Question 14 Which region of the thirteen English colonies had long summers which were great for growing cash crops such as tobacco, indigo and rice? (pg 84) Southern colonies
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Question 15 In which region of the thirteen English colonies did the thin, rocky soil make farming difficult? (pg 71) New England colonies
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