Transcript The English Colonies

Colonization in
America
Europeans Invade America
Renaissance(Late 1400-1500’s)
Gutenberg
Printing Press
Portuguese Schools in
Navigation
Caravel
Christopher Columbus
The
“Great” Voyage
Significance of
Columbus (p. 38)
Pro:
Continued Interest
Con: Slavery
French & Spanish
Colonization
 Spanish
and French Colonies
Goals...$$$,
Religious
Conversion
Spanish - “Mercantilism”
French - Fur Trade & search
for the Great Northwest
Passage
First English Colonies
 Roanoke
Island ... Sir Walter Raleigh
 Jamestown 1607 ...
 John
Smith, John Rolfe, & Pocahontas
 House of Burgesses
 Plymouth
1621
1620 ... Pilgrams
First Thanksgiving
Conditions in England
High
Unemployment
Religious Unrest
The “Great Migration” of
the 1630’s
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans
and the “New
England” Way
Towns and Church
Dissenters
Southern Colonies
 Ex:
Virginia, Carolinas
 Spread out (Large
Plantations)
 Tobacco - lots of labor
Indentured
 Church
Servants - Slaves
not powerful
Pennsylvania Colony
Proprietary
Colony
Organized Assemblies
Quakers
Pacifists
Indians as equals
Georgia Colony
James
Oglethorpe ...
Trustee
Special Purpose
Utopian Society ...
Failed
Colonial Brochure
3
Fold Brochure promoting 1
particular colony (Tourism type)
 Historically accurate
 Artistic and Informative
 Present a 30-second commercial
Family Structure
Basic
Social Unit
Morals,
Education
Childbearing
Relationships
Marriage
/ Divorce
Slavery
Background
of African
Slavery
Avg. Southern Plantation 10
Dependency ... “Seeds of
Civil War”
Education
New England
 Puritans
...
Reading!
 Education Act
(1647)
Colleges
South
 Crops
more
important
than
Education
Religion
Decline
in Zeal
Salem Witch Trials
... 1692
The Great Awakening
Analysis of Witch Trials
 Puritan
Folklore (Scapegoat)
 Holy Bonds (Lies)
 Tituba - Slave
 Ergot Fungus (LSD)
 Upham’s Map - Economics
 Resentment
 View
/ Grudges
of Women (Independent)
Government
Governor
Council
Assembly
“Royal
Colony”
Economics
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Lack
of Control
“Seeds of a Revolution”
Security Problems
Western
 Problems
Albany
 B.
Frontier
with ??
Plan of Union
Franklin
French
and Indian War
 Proclamation
of 1763