1. WHY COME TO AMERICA?

2. MOTIVATING FORCES (Pros)
Practice own RELIGION (Personal)
Make MONEY (Personal)
Build an EMPIRE (National)… IMPERIALISM
Imperialism: policy or practice by which a country increases its power by colonizing/gaining control over other areas of the world

3. DANGERS (Cons) -SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES
-WILD ANIMALS
-FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

4. ENGLISH SETTLERS LAND IN VIRGINIA!

5. ROANOKE ISLAND The Lost Colony
Founded for economic reasons by the English.
1st permanent English settlement

6. Journey to Jamestown

8. JAMESTOWN $$$$$$

9. HARD WORK Make someone else do it.

10. Massachusetts Bay Colony

11. SETTLED BY PURITANS

12. PLYMOUTH
Puritans-separatists from the Church of England who came to practice own religion freely

13. STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

14. The Mayflower