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 and to expand English influence.
Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh

6. Journey to Jamestown

7. Jamestown $$$$$$
By 1675, Virginia had become Great Britain’s most lucrative ($) American colony – exporting more than ten million pounds of tobacco to England each year.

8. Massachusetts Bay Colony --1628--

9. Settled by Puritans

10. PLYMOUTH COLONY -–
Puritans - separatists from the Church of England who came to practice their own religion freely

11. STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

12. The Mayflower