1. COMING TO AMERICA

2. DANGERS -SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES
-WILD ANIMALS
-FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

3. MOTIVATING FORCES
RELIGION (Personal)
MONEY (Personal)
EMPIRE (National)

4. Who Came to the New World?
Those who chose to come to the New World were people with courage, who wanted a better life for themselves and their families. 
Most came from the middle class - shopkeepers, artisans, craftsmen, weavers, tailors, shoemakers, blacksmiths, and bakers. 
Unfortunately, most of these people knew very little about farming.
Criminals, given the choice of death or immigration chose immigration.

5. ROANOKE ISLAND The Lost Colony
Founded for economic reasons by the English.
1st permanent English settlement

6. JAMESTOWN LOCATION

7. Massachusetts Bay Colony

8. SETTLED BY PURITANS

9. PLYMOUTH
settled by separatists from the Church of England to avoid persecution

10. STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

11. The Mayflower

12. PENNSYLVANIA
settled by Quakers in search of religious freedom

13. GEORGIA settled by debtors from prisons in England