1. APUSH Period 2

2. European Claims and settlements in the Americas

3. Big Picture
2.1:Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.
This will break down into 2.1.I, and 2.1.I breaks down into 2.1.I.A, 2.1.I.B, 2.1.I.C, 2.1.I.D, and 2.1.I.E.

4. 2.1.I. Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers had different economic and imperial goals involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations.
Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to…
French and Dutch colonial efforts involved…
English colonization efforts attracted…

5. 2.1.I.A

6. Mulattos too.

10. 2.1.I.B

12. 2.1.I.C

13. New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies

14. Great Migration

16. Demographic Changes Source: United States Historical Census Data Base
Populations in the American Colonies of 1700, 1755 & 1775 [25][26][27]
1700 Ancestry
Percent
1755 Ancestry
1775 Ancestry
English and Welsh
80.0%
English and Welsh
52.0%
English
48.7%
African
11.0%
20.0%
Dutch
4.0%
German
7.0%
Scots-Irish
7.8 %
Scottish
3.0%
6.9%
Other European
2.0%
Irish
5.0%
6.6 %
2.7%
French
1.4%
Swedish
0.6%
Total
100%
Other
5.3%

17. Social Mobility in the Colonies
Gentry
Artisans
Yeomen
Manual workers/hired hands
Indentured servants
Slaves

18. Colonial Folkways Language and customs Protestantism
Some ethnic and religious toleration
Unusual social mobility
Habit of local, self-government
Effect of physical distance from England

19. Religious Freedom? New England—issues with toleration
Mid-Atlantic Colonies—general toleration
Southern Colonies (including the Chesapeake)—general toleration

20. Colonial Agriculture New England—smaller, subsistence farms
Mid-Atlantic—larger, prosperous farming (the Breadbasket)
South—larger, cash-crops and slavery

21. Relations with American Indians
Separate peoples
Mutual suspicion
Limited interaction
Less missionary emphasis
Periods of sharp conflict
Powhatan Wars
Pequot War
Beaver Wars
King Phillip’s War

22. 2.1.II In the 17th Century, early British colonies developed along the Atlantic coast, with regional differences that reflected the various environmental, economic, cultural, and demographic factors.
The Chesapeake and North Carolina colonies…
The New England colonies…
The middle colonies…
The colonies of the southernmost Atlantic coast and the British West Indies…
Distance and Britain’s initially lax attention led to…