1. Terms List Expectations
Complete
Not dictionary/glossary definitions
YOUR OWN WORDS
Use information/notes discussed in class to help complete
Due on Unit Test Day
Neatness

2. Terms List Expectations
Who was involved?
Where did the event take place?
When did the event take place?
What happened?
Why is it significant?

3. Terms List Expectations
Good example or poor example?
What do you think the teacher’s comments were for this entry?

4. Terms List Expectations
Good example or poor example?
What do you think the teacher’s comments were for this entry?

5. Terms List Expectations
Good example or poor example?
What are the differences between the first example and this example?

6. Terms List Expectations
Good example or poor example?
What are the differences between the first example and this example?

7. Louisiana Purchase

8. Louisiana Purchase
Who: Thomas Jefferson (Robert Livingston & James Monroe), United States, France
What: United States bought the Louisiana territory for $15 million; doubles the size of the United States
Where: Louisiana (Mississippi River through the Great Plains)
When: October 20, 1803 (Jefferson’s presidency)
Why: Jefferson wanted to protect American trade routes – New Orleans, France needed money for military supplies (war with Great Britain); Lewis and Clark exploration, route to the Pacific Ocean, contact with Native Americans

9. Exploration
Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian explorers(who)
Participated in a race to claim land in America (what)
Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where)
’s (when)
Competition between nations – global leadership (why) Desire for wealth (why) Spread of Christianity (why)
Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)

10. Why not stick with what we know and just be satisfied?
Why explore?
Why not stick with what we know and just be satisfied?

11. Colonization
To populate an area

12. Early European Exploration
Dutch
English
French
Spanish
Scandinavian

14. Why Explore? Causes Effects Competition between nations
Desire for wealth
Spread of Christianity
Destruction of Native American empires
French and Indian War
Disease
Columbian Exchange
Good brought from Europe; goods brought back from the Americas
Colonies in America established

15. British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)

17. Map Day
See Colonial America packet: p. 4

18. Why the British explored…
Search for wealth (wealth=power)
Mercantilism
Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with few resources, America few people with great resources)
Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for manufacturing turn them into finished goods and resell them to colonies
Political Strength
Becoming/maintaining world power status
Religious freedom
Pilgrims/Puritans
Catholicism

19. Life in the colonies? Brand new world… No “colonial” traditions
Whose did they follow then?
No government/authority physically present
What happens when the King of England isn’t there to tell colonists what to do?

20. Life in the colonies What/who was there as the colonists landed?
Houses? Businesses? Roads?
People?

21. Life in the colonies How did colonists get houses? Businesses?
Had to bring people with these skills to the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)
Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow

22. What did they find when they got there?
What were they able to establish?
13 colonies
Diverse lifestyles

23. Colonists’ Toolbox

24. British Colonies
Who (what country) founded the original thirteen colonies?
What are the three regions that make up the original thirteen colonies?
What were the strengths/weaknesses of each of the colonial regions?
What did each of the regional colonies provide for Mother England?

25. British Colonies Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

26. What did the South offer to Great Britain?
Long growing season
Fertile, vacant land
Sun
Freedom of religion (Maryland)
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

27. Southern Colonies First (successful) British settlement
Jamestown, Virginia (1606)
“deadly” experience (initially)
Sent money, no experience and limited skill
What is the formula for success in an early settlement?
= diverse population (skills)

28. Southern Colonies
Among the diverse population of the southern colonies were…
Farmers
Bankers
Catholics
Maryland – first American colony established for “religious freedom”
Toleration Act of 1649
Plantation owners (rich)
Slaves

29. Economy of southern colonies
Plantations (really big farms)
Tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, pigs, corn
Required labor: indentured servants (not slaves)
As the demand for cash crops (cotton, tobacco) increased, what happens to the demand for labor/workers?
Therefore, slave trade developed
By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor on southern plantations

30. Economy of southern colonies
Was everyone in the south a wealthy plantation owner?
Did everyone have slaves?

32. British Exploration Southern Colonies New England Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

33. What did the New England colonies offer Great Britain?
Ports for trading companies
Timber
Whale oil
Fisheries
Religious freedom (reformation)
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

34. New England Economy
What is the climate/environment like in New England?
Little demand for farm labor/slaves
Subsistence/community farming
Creating demand for skilled professionals

35. New England Economy Trade Raw materials Whale oil, fish, timber/lumber
Natural resources (shipped to GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies
Mercantilism

36. New England Community Diversity among colonists Trades/skills Wealth
Merchants, fishermen, ship builders, lumberjacks, blacksmiths, printers, weavers
Wealth
Education/languages
Religion

37. New England Community Who used to be the colonists’ government?
Where was the King now?

38. New England Community In an attempt to avoid chaos and inequality…
Mayflower
Mayflower Compact
Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)
Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)

39. New England Community
First to establish local government that included…
Court system
Representative government (elections)
Do we have these things today?

40. New England Community Religion and government closely tied together
What makes that different from today’s US society?
Separation of Church and State
Government leaders were also church leaders
Where do you think the government leaders found their voters/followers?

41. Great Migration Religious escape (1620-1640) Puritans Pilgrims
Wanting to purify the Church of England
Boston, Massachusetts
Pilgrims
Wanting to separate from the Church of England
Plymouth, Massachusetts

42. New England Community

43. New England Community
If we are going to survive as a community, we must…
Be family oriented
Have women and children involved
Maintain faith in religion
Provide education
Why is this a need? Read what?

44. Education John Harvard – 1636 William and Mary College – 1693
Boston, Massachusetts
William and Mary College – 1693
Virginia

45. New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native Americans
Will you teach us how to grow crops?
Absolutely, in exchange for resources and finished goods.

46. Thanksgiving
Exchange of information, techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)
Celebration of successful harvest
Survival of the new colony

47. New England Colonies

48. British Exploration Southern Colonies New England Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

49. What did the Middle colonies offer to Great Britain?
Blend of New England and Southern colonies
Staple crops
Wheat, barley, oats (grains)
Iron and wood
Trade
Indentured servants/slaves
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

50. Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania
William Penn
1681 granted a charter by King Charles II
Establish a safe home for Quakers

51. Quakers
Equality of men and women
Nonviolence
Religious tolerance

52. Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania
Penn limited his own power
By creating an elected assembly (must vote representatives into government)
Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)
Largest colonial city