1. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA

2. Guiding Question 1
Why did people settle in the British North American colonies? Did people come for primarily economic concerns or for religious/idealistic motivations?

3. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Roark, American Promise 3e from

4. Roanoke Colony,

5. Virginia Company, Charter, 1606

6. Chesapeake Bay & Jamestown
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7. Settlement of Virginia
Virginia Company
Jamestown
John Smith
John Rolfe
Tobacco
“starving time”
House of Burgesses
indentured servants
headright system
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Jamestown Settlement (Computer Generated)

8. Early Colonial Tobacco
1618 — Virginia produces 20,000 pounds of tobacco.
1622 — Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces 60,000 pounds of tobacco.
1627 — Virginia produces 500,000 pounds of tobacco.
1629 — Virginia produces 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.
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9. Tobacco Prices
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10. Life in Early Virginia, 1620-1670s
“plantations”
society
economy
quality of life
religion?
Henretta, America’s History 5e from
River Plantations in Virginia, c. 1640

11. 17th Century Population in the Chesapeake
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12. Reasons for Slavery Decrease in indentured servants
English economy
Increase in availability of slaves
end of Royal African company monopoly
Decrease in price
Fears of growing number of landless freemen
Available supply from Caribbean

13. Population of Chesapeake Colonies: 1610-1750
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14. The Atlantic Slave Trade
Roark, American Promise 3e from
“middle passage”

15. Slave Trade
Foner Give Me Liberty! 4e

16. Slave Colonies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.;

17. Nash, The American People: Creating a Nation (6th ed); http://wps

18. The Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
Roark, American Promise 3e from

19. Deep South Carolina (1682) Georgia (1738) rice indigo Rice Indigo
The West Indies and Carolina in the Seventeenth Century
Carolina (1682)
Georgia (1738)
rice
indigo
Rice
Roark, American Promise 3e from
Indigo

20. Early Carolina, circa 1710

21. The Carolinas and Georgia
Divine, America Past & Present 7e

22. Spread of Settlement: British Colonies, 1650–1700
Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.;

23. NEW ENGLAND

24. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Roark, American Promise 3e from

25. English Migration,
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26. Plymouth Separatists “Pilgrims” Plymouth Mayflower Compact
Mayflower II

27. Massachusetts Bay Puritans Great Migration “City upon a hill”
Henretta, America’s History 5e from

28. New England towns town meetings church Education
“Old Satan Deluder” Act (1647)
Harvard College (1636)
merchants
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Land Division in Sudbury, MA:

29. Population of the New England Colonies
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30. New England Colonies, 1650
Divine, America Past & Present 7e

31. MIDDLE COLONIES

32. Colonies in Eastern North America 1650

33. New Netherland & New Sweden

34. New York New Netherland (1613) – Who? Why? Patroonships >>>
society
economy

35. Pennsylvania William Penn Quakers society economy Indian relations
Royal Land Grant to Penn

36. Middle Colonies, 1685
Divine, America Past & Present 7e

37. Area of English settlement by 1700

38. American Colonies at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Roark, American Promise 3e from

39. Britain's American Empire, 1713
Henretta, America’s History 5e from