1. Today is Tuesday, August 30th
Agenda
Warm Up:
-Read pgs 110 – 112 -Vocab and Questions Hmwk- Review Exploration
Without using your notes, recall the areas of North America that each of these European countries settled: France Spain England

2. Vocabulary Terms
Slave: person who had few rights and spent his or her life in service to others
Indentured servant: a person who agreed to work for someone for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the new world.
Garrison: a fort where troops are housed
Trustee: a person who holds responsibility on behalf of others
Charter: a legal document that grants special rights and privileges
Regulations: government orders
Artisan: a craftsperson
Militia: a citizen army
Colony: A group of people who settle in a new land but who keep their ties to their homeland.
Mercantilism: A trade policy that dictates a country should EXPORT more than it IMPORTS. 

3. English Settlement in the New World

4. Pages
After the Spanish Armada, England had undisputed control of the seas
The English were looking for gold, silver, and exotic foods.
Virginia and Massachusetts were the first two English colonies
The English came to the new world for religious freedom, to spread Christianity to the Native Americans, adventure, and mercantilism.

5. Mercantilism http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/mercantilism

6. In order to export more than it imported, English colonies would produce raw materials to be shipped to England for finished goods to be made. Products would be sold to other nations to strengthen its own economy.
They arrived too late to plant crops and their location near a swamp lead to an outbreak of Malaria leaving only 38 out of 104 settlers alive at the end of the first year.
Indentured servants are people who agreed to work for a period time in return for passage to the New World, while slaves ad few rights and spent their entire lives in service.

7. England realized that they needed a “buffer” between their colonies and the Spanish settlement, and Georgia would create that buffer.
England felt that both the Spanish and French posed a threat to the British colonies, so they asked for a fort to built at the mouth of the Altamaha River for protection. It served as a warning point for invaders but was eventually abandoned due to Indian raids, swampy conditions, and sickness.

8. What items were exchanged:
Items brought to Old World: corn, peanuts, turkeys, pumpkin
Items brought to the New World: rye radishes, beets, sugar cane, rice, peaches, wheat, horses, chicken, pigs, oxen, sheep, goats, and cattle