1. Motivation 4 Exploration!
EQ: What were the motivating factors that caused explorers and colonists to come to the Americas?
What led to Europeans beginning to travel around the world and explore?
Black Death - Fall of Feudalism – Rise of stronger Monarchies
Fall of Constantinople – Old trade routes gone
Renaissance – People think for selves, New Technologies
Reformation – Power Shift (Church to Kings)

2. Motivation for Exploration
GOD GOLD GLORY THE THREE G’s

3. GOD Said another way: Religion
Monarchs such as Queen Isabella of Spain wanted to spread her version of Catholicism throughout the world
Religious fervor sparked by the Reformation influenced this desire
Religious Freedom:
Groups would also look to the New World as an opportunity to practice religion the way they wanted.
Horrible Histories Church Scene:

4. Gold
Spanish Conquistadors found extremely wealthy civilizations literally packed with gold that sparked a sort of gold rush
Monarchs needed gold to pay their armies to maintain power
European powers found another source of wealth from the growth of sugar cane and the rise of sugar plantations
Start of mercantilism
Sparked the African Slave Trade

5. Glory
Some were just sparked on by the idea of fame, the fame of exploration as described by the original voyages of Marco Polo Privateers raiding the Spanish Armada both in European waters as well as in the Americas
Influence men like Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the Roanoke expedition sponsored by Queen Elizabeth the “virgin queen”

6. Push – Pull Affect
Basically means that factors exist in the Old World literally pushing people out and at same time factors exist in the New World pulling people towards it.
Land Scarcity
Famine
Religious Persecution
Primogenitor: oldest son gets everything

7. Mercantilism an economic system used to increase the wealth and power of the “mother” country.
Developed during decay of feudalism
Create and Maintain wealth by imbalance of trade with new territory
Get resources from New World – Colonies
Manufacture finished goods back home- Old World (Europe)
Sell back to New World - Colonies

8. Sir Walter Raleigh & North Carolina
1584 Queen Elizabeth I: issues Sir Raleigh a charter to establish permanent colony in N. America
Second attempt known as The Lost Colony of Roanoke
1663 Charter of Carolina – issued by King Charles II
Issued rights to rule colony to 8 Lord Proprietors
Proprietary vs. Royal vs. Charter Colony (What’s the difference?):
Royal Colony: DIRECTLY ruled by a monarch (King)
Charter Colony: right to self govern granted to colonists via a charter (contract) with the King (England)
Proprietary Colony: power to govern granted by the King to specific people
NC was Proprietary colony at first