1. WHY COME TO AMERICA?

2. DANGERS -SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES
-WILD ANIMALS
-FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

3. MOTIVATING FORCES
Religious (social)
Wealth (economic)
Empire building (political)

4. English Settlers in North Carolina

5. ROANOKE ISLAND The Lost Colony
Founded for economic reasons by the English.
Failed (1590) due to unfriendly Indians and lack of supplies

6. JAMESTOWN LOCATION

7. GOOD THINGS Easily defended from Indians
Water was deep enough to dock ships
close to shore.

8. Bad Things Swampy land and brackish water Mosquitoes born diseases
such as malaria

9. Bad people seeking only power and wealth

10. JAMESTOWN
$$$$$$ Green Gold

11. Hard Work
Make someone else do it.

12. Massachusetts Bay Colony

13. SETTLED BY PURITANS

14. PLYMOUTH
settled by the Pilgrims who were separatists from the Church of England to avoid religious persecution

15. STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

16. The Mayflower

17. PENNSYLVANIA
settled by Quakers in search of religious freedom

18. GEORGIA settled by debtors from prisons in England