1. European Contact to Settlements

2. Contact to Settlements
The Caribbean,
Central America,
and South America
Also known as, Latin America
Where did the Spanish explore and settle?

3. Contact to Settlements
Often led to violent conflicts with the American Indians
What was the Spanish peoples
relationship with Native
Americans?

4. Contact to Settlements
The Indians lost their traditional territories
(they lost their land)
What happened to Native
Americans lands?

5. Contact to Settlements
They fell victim to diseases carried from Europe
Example: smallpox
Why did so many Native Americans
Die?

6. Contact to Settlements
Canada
Where did the French
explore and settle?

7. Contact to Settlements
The French did not come to America in large-scale immigration from France
(they did not have colonies)
Relations with native peoples were generally more cooperative
What was the
Relationship between
The French and the
Native Americans?

8. Jamestown

9. Jamestown
John Smith
Who was the leader?

10. Jamestown
1607
When was it settled?

11. Riches, business venture
Jamestown
Riches, business venture
Why did people come to Jamestown (what were they hoping to find) ?

12. Cavaliers Jamestown What were the early settlers called?
Cavaliers
What were the early settlers called?

13. Jamestown
Landless nobility
What is a Cavalier?

14. Virginia London Company
Jamestown
Virginia London Company
Who or what sponsored the first people to Jamestown?

15. House of Representatives
Jamestown
House of Representatives
What was the House of Burgesses?

16. 1619 Jamestown Plantation work When did the first Africans arrive?
1619
Plantation work
When did the first Africans arrive?
Why were the forced to come to the Americas?

17. English, Irish, Africans
Jamestown
Individuals who worked for about 7 years labor to pay off the passage fee
English, Irish, Africans
Define indentured servants.
Who were indentured
servants?

18. Indentured servitude was temporary, slavery for life
Jamestown
Indentured servitude was temporary, slavery for life
How are indentured servants different from slaves?

19. Jamestown
He rebelled against the Government for not supplying defense Native American attacks
Why did Bacon rebel?

20. Jamestown
Tobacco
What economy saved Jamestown?