1. CATALYST:
Brainstorm reasons why people would immigrate or move a great distance.
Share answers with your partner.

2. UNIT 1- Independence THE BEGINNING OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES
Why did British colonists come to America?
What challenges did they face?
How did the colonies succeed?
What were negative consequences?
How did southern and northern colonial regions differ?

4. Jamestown
Jamestown
Jamestown
Plymouth

5. Setting the Stage: The American colonies by the 1750s
Relations with the British
The Natives
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Slaves

6. What themes of American History are evident in the original English settlements? (Jamestown and Plymouth)

7. What themes of American History are evident in the original English settlements? (Jamestown and Plymouth)
Migration and immigration
“Land of opportunity”
Conflict with Natives
Sectionalism (difference
between regions)
Slavery

9. With your group: Try to list all the colonies for each region
Try to put the appropriate descriptions into the chart

10. New England Colonies- the people
Puritan congregations moved over to create a religious society
No religious freedom

11. New England Colonies- economy
Rocky soil, cold= small farms
wealthy merchant class (trade)
Some industry, shipbuilding

12. New England Colonies- slavery
Very little
Profited greatly from the trade of slaves & southern crops

13. Middle Colonies- the people
Much more diverse population,
Different nationalities
Different religions

14. Middle Colonies- economy
NY, Penn- cattle and food crops
Port cities grow from trade (NYC, Philadelphia)

15. Middle Colonies- slavery
Substantial amount
Of slaves, especially in NY

16. Southern Colonies- the people
“Planters” dominate the south
Mostly small farmers, however
Some areas, slaves were a majority

17. Southern Colonies- economy
Cash crop economy-
tobacco in the Chesapeake,
rice and indigo in the deep South

18. Southern colonies- slavery
200,000 by 1750
80-90% in agriculture
Actual diagram of a ship on the
Middle Passage

19. How would you describe “mercentalism” to your seven year old niece?

20. Relations with the British
Mercantilism- colonies exist to benefit the mother country
“Salutary neglect”-
England relaxes
enforcement of its regulations
BOTH SIDES HAPPY by 1750s
Colonies supply mother
country with raw materials
and buy manufactured
goods

21. Triangular trade- trade route between the Americas, Africa, and Europe
Raw materials from colonies?
Goods from Europe?
Africa?

22. Native Americans
Key source of conflict: Native Americans did not believe in land ownership
By 1750, most are west of Appalachians
Tend to be ALLIED
with the French
Why were the British
Colonists able to take
Over the land?

23. The British system of mercantilism was opposed by many American colonists because it
placed quotas on immigration
discouraged the export of raw materials to England
placed restrictions on trading
encouraged colonial manufacturing

24. In the Colonial Era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented
colonial attempts to build a strong national government
efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies
steps in the growth of representative democracy
early social reform movements

25. CLOSURE: WHAT COLONY ARE YOU GOING TO BE FROM?
WHAT RIGHTS ARE YOU GOING TO DISCUSS?

26. ….in a land granted in a patent from the Crown to the London Virginia Company…..