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Terms List Expectations
Who was involved? Where did the event take place? When did the event take place? What happened? Why is it significant?
Terms List ExpectationsExploration
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Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian
explorers(who) Participated in a race to claim land in America
(what) Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where) 1400-1600’s (when) Competition between nations – global leadership
(why)Desire for wealth (why)Spread of Christianity (why)
Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)
Exploration
Colonization
Dutch English French Spanish Scandinavian
Early European Exploration
Why Explore?
Causes Competition
between nations Desire for wealth Spread of
Christianity
Effects Destruction of Native
American empires French and Indian War Disease
Columbian Exchange Good brought from Europe;
goods brought back from the Americas
Colonies in America established
Slavery in America (grows)
Map Day
See Colonial America packet: p. 2
Colonization
British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)
Search for wealth (wealth=power)
Mercantilism Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with
few resources, America few people with great resources) Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for
manufacturing turn them into finished goods and resell them to colonies
Political Strength Becoming/maintaining world power status
Religious freedom Pilgrims/Puritans
Why the British explored…
Brand new world…
No “colonial” traditions Limited/no guidance No government/authority physically present
Began their own traditions… What’s in a name? (What’s your name?) Fly a Flag
Life in the colonies?
Baby Names, Groaning Cake and
Designer Flags
1. Read, highlight, annotate What’s Your Name? (packet)
2. Try some Groaning Cake? – why did they have it?3. Fly a Flag – Read the class copy of Fly a Flag;
design and make your own colonial flagOn the reverse side of your flag – describe each elements’ significance/importance (paragraph)
What/who was there as the colonists
landed? Houses? Businesses? Roads? People?
Did these Native Americans live life the way colonists had been accustomed to (life in GB)?
Were there ways of life that could be shared though? Exchange of ideas – farming, agriculture, travel
Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer
flags?
How did colonists get houses?
Businesses? Had to bring people with these skills to
the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)
Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow
Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer
flags?
Who (what country) founded the
original thirteen colonies? What are the three regions that
make up the original thirteen colonies?
What were the strengths/weaknesses of each of the colonial regions? What did each of the regional
colonies provide for Mother England?
British Colonies
Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
British Colonies
Long growing season Fertile, vacant land Sun Access to ports/water Freedom of religion (Maryland)
What did the South offer to Great Britain?
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?
First (successful) British settlement
Jamestown, Virginia (1606) “deadly” experience (initially)
Sent money, no experience and limited skill
Can you survive w/o shelter, food, water and defense? Finally, colonists recognize the formula
for success = diverse population (skills)
Southern Colonies
Among the diverse population of the
southern colonies were… Farmers Bankers Catholics
Maryland – first American colony established for “religious freedom”
Toleration Act of 1649 Indentured servants Slaves
Southern Colonies
Plantations (really big farms)
Tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, pigs, corn Required labor: indentured servants (not
slaves) Contracted to work 4-7 years Free to use their skills following this
service Demand for labor increased (as the
demand for cash crops – cotton, tobacco - increased): slave trade developed By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor
on southern plantations
Economy of southern colonies
Was everyone in the south a
wealthy plantation owner?
Did everyone have slaves?
Economy of southern colonies
Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island
British Exploration
Ports for trading companies Timber Whale oil Fisheries Religious freedom (reformation)
What did the New England colonies offer
Great Britain?
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?
What is the climate/environment like
in New England? Little demand for farm labor/slaves
Subsistence/community farming
Creating demand for skilled professionals
New England Economy
Trade
Raw materials Whale oil, fish,
timber/lumber Natural resources (shipped to
GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies Mercantilism
New England Economy
Diversity among colonists
Trades/skills Merchants, fishermen, ship builders,
lumberjacks, blacksmiths, printers, weavers
Wealth Education/languages Religion
New England Community
Mayflower - 1620 Mayflower Compact
Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)
Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)
New England Community
Why was there no government for the
colonies? What government had they been used to?
Where was the King?
First to establish local government that included… Court system Representative government (elections)
New England Community
Religion and government closely tied together
What makes that different from today’s US society? Separation of Church and State
Government leaders were also church leaders Where do you think the government leaders
found their voters/followers?
New England Community
Religious escape (1620-1640) Puritans
Wanting to purify the Church of England Boston, Massachusetts
Pilgrims Wanting to separate from the Church of
England Plymouth, Massachusetts
Great Migration
New England Community
If we are going to survive as a
community, we must… Be family oriented Have women and children involved Maintain faith in religion Provide education
Why is this a need? Read what?
New England Community
John Harvard – 1636
Boston, Massachusetts William and Mary College –
1693 Virginia
Education
New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native
Americans
Will you teach us how to grow crops?
Absolutely, in exchange for resources and finished goods.
Exchange of information,
techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)
Celebration of successful harvest Survival of the new colony
Thanksgiving
New England Colonies
Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
British Exploration
Blend of New England and Southern colonies Staple crops
Wheat, barley, oats (grains), iron, wood Trade Indentured servants/slaves
What did the Middle colonies offer to Great Britain?
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?
Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance
Middle Colonies Community
Quakers
William Penn
Establish a safe home for Quakers Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance
Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania
1681 granted a charter by King Charles II
Penn limited his own power Created an elected assembly (representative
self-government)
Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love(Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)
Largest colonial city - 1760
Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania