1. English and French Colonies in North America

2. English Motivations Find NW Passage to Asia Rival Spanish
Source of raw materials, export market
First English colony (Roanoke, 1587) failed
Roanoke Island-The “Lost Colony”

3. The Northwest Passage-
soon to be open for
business thanks to
climate change

4. Southern Colonies VA Company- est. 1606 Jamestown Colony- f. 1607
New colony struggled to survive (disease, location, etc.)

5. Intro. of tobacco saved colony-required indentured servants, later slaves
Other S. colonies (MD, NC, SC, GA) also had plantation economies (tobacco, indigo, rice) and therefore slavery

6. Middle Atlantic Colonies
English captured New Amsterdam-1664 (renamed NY)
New colony linked NE and S
NJ-accommodated expanding pop.
PA-haven for Quakers
Economy-trade, farming

7. New England Colonies
1st colonies (Plymouth, MA Bay) est. by Puritans escaping persecution
Economy-based on trade and farming
Other NE colonies (NH, CT, RI) founded due to expan. From MA

8. The Three
Colonial Regions of
British North
America

9. New France
Cartier-claimed land around the St. Lawrence River for France in 1534
Champlain-founded Quebec as 1st Fr. colony in the New World in 1608
Economy depended on fur trade
French missionaries would spread Catholicism (Jesuits)