1. KC: 3- If we started a colony… What would we need???
Resources (water, food, supplies, etc.)
Jobs
Rules/Laws
Religion?
Economy?
Government

2. Name the original 13 colonies… GO!

4. Knights Charge 3- 9/15 List the 13 original colonies
What were some reasons to move out to the New World?
What were some realities of the New World?

5. Knights Charge 3- 9/15
What were some reasons to move out to the New World?
What were some realities of the New World?

6. Unit 2: Colonies

7. Moving to the “New World”
Why Move to the New World?
Opportunity to own your own land & home
Religious Freedom

8. How? Joint Stock Companies:
Investors would buy “shares” of a company and this money would help build the colonies.
Investors hoped to make money off the success of the colonies.

9. Virginia Company of London

10. Roanoke Colony Created by leader Sir Walter Raleigh
Purpose of the colony was to make money
Site of “The Lost Colony”
England’s first attempt at a colony in New World

12. The Lost Colony
After establishing the colony, Gov. John White returned to England to get additional supplies in 1587.
Because of the ongoing war with the Spanish, White was unable to return until 1590.
Upon his return, all 117 men and women had vanished from the colony.
What was left was a carving in a tree which read “CROATOAN”

13. The Lost Colony

14. Five popular theories…

15. Jamestown First successful English colony established in 1607
Created to make money and find gold
In its first years, the colony struggled and almost failed
Until the English discovered the use of…

16. Tobacco

17. Jamestown

18. Put away your notes!!! Its show me time!!!!
1. Name 1 reason why people came to colonize the New World.
2. What was the first attempt at a colony by the English in the New World?
3. What was the first successful English colony in the New World?
4. What crop saved that colony?

19. Knights Charge 9/15 What was the first successful English colony?
If you wanted to start a colony, what would you need to make it successful??
Make a list of things you would need

20. Colonial Life
Lecture 1.2

21. Early Forms of Government in the Colonies
After Jamestown was beginning to flourish from the sale of tobacco, the colony was in need of government
The Virginia Company created the Virginia House of Burgesses

22. Virginia House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses became the first representative government in North America
The people of Jamestown elected officials who would serve on the House of Burgesses
The Legislative body was created by the Virginia Company in hopes of bringing more people to the colony

23. Massachusetts Bay Colony
Created by a large group of Puritans who were seeking religious freedom from England
They too created their own government led by Puritan religious leaders
Settled in New England in 1628

24. City Upon a Hill
Upon creating their colony, Puritan leader John Winthrop said their colony should be a “City Upon a Hill”
He believed that their colony should serve as a model for future colonies

25. Puritans
Puritan values of Massachusetts Bay led to the creation of systems of self government
Additionally, Puritans believed it was your duty on earth to work in order to repay God for your sins

26. Puritan women and children
Everyone of Massachusetts Colony worked
Children were expected to work to forsake their sins to God
Women were expected to obey their husbands, have children, and work to forsake their sins

27. Roger Williams
Unlike the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay colony, Roger Williams believed in the separation of church and state
His ideas challenged the leaders of the colony which eventually led to his banishment from the colony

28. Anne Hutchinson
Another citizen of the Massachusetts Bay colony who challenged the religious leadership of the colony
She slandered many of the Puritan leaders and held home prayers
She too was eventually banished from Massachusetts Bay

29. Rhode Island
Williams and Hutchinson went on to establish Rhode Island in 1636
Purpose of the colony was to provide a place for religious freedom

30. Plymouth Colony Settled on Plymouth Rock in 1620
Wrote the Mayflower Compact- first written document outlining self-government
Settled for religious freedom

31. Thanksgiving

32. Mayflower Compact
First written document in colonies establishing self government
Written by Puritans at Plymouth Colony