1. From Colonies to Revolution
Unit 2 PowerPoint 1

2. Do Now: In your notebook
What are the comforts of home you would be willing to go without? How long would you be willing to go without them?

3. Reasons for English Colonization
Economic Reasons
Enclosure Movement (1500s)
Farmers trade crops for sheep
Tenant farmers lose land and home
No jobs, no inheritance, no future.
New Markets/Northwest Passage

4. Reasons for English Colonization
Religious Reasons
Protestant Reformation
1517 Martin Luther – 95 Theses
1527 Henry VIII – Breaks with Catholic Church, establishes the Church of England with himself as the head of church.
Puritans
Wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic influence
Religious freedom

5. Reasons for Colonization
Military Alliances
England vs. Spain – Protestantism vs. Catholicism
Dutch side with England to dominate Atlantic trade
Queen Elizabeth charters Roanoke Colony to have a base to attack Spanish ships.
Defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588

6. What happened to Roanoke?
Settled in 1585 – Disappeared 1590
Theories:
Colonists assimilated into two different Native Tribes
Colonists killed by Spaniards
90 men, 17 women, 11 children all disappeared

7. Jamestown 1607 Early Troubles Poor location – swampy too close to sea
First settlers were townspeople, not farmers
Arrived during a drought so food was scarce.
known as The Starving Time
500 settlers, only 60 survived until Spring

8. Tobacco and John Rolfe Tobacco
Rolfe introduces tobacco farming in Jamestown
Very profitable, but uses a lot of land
Question:
What impact does the introduction of tobacco farming have on the rate of colonization and relationship with the natives?
Answer:
More settlers lured to Jamestown to make money Colonists take more and more land causing conflict with the natives whose way of life was threatened.

9. Powhatan Uprising: March 22, 1622
“On Friday before the day appointed by them for the attack they visited, entirely unarmed, some of our people in their dwellings, offering to exchange skins, fish and other things, while our people entirely ignorant of their plans received them in a friendly manner. "When the day appointed for the massacre had arrived, a number of the savages visited many of our people in their dwellings, and while partaking with them of their meal the savages, at a given signal, drew their weapons and fell upon us murdering and killing everybody they could reach sparing neither women nor children, as well inside as outside the dwellings. In this attack 347 of the English of both sexes and all ages were killed. Simply killing our people did not satisfy their inhuman nature, they dragged the dead bodies all over the country, tearing them limb from limb, and carrying the pieces in triumph around. "

10. Aftermath of Uprising ¼ of Jamestown Population killed
Several women taken by the Powhatan
Surviving colonists “bond” over the experience and begin to call themselves Virginians.
House of Burgesses formed to govern the colonies.

11. America the Story of Us - Rebels
As we watch Episode 1 – Fill in the blanks of the worksheet.

12. Exit Ticket
Write your answer on the back of your worksheet and turn it in as you leave the room.
What impact did tobacco have on colonization and relationships with the natives?