2. Reasons for Colonies  Riches – looking for gold and silver  Looking for the Northwest Passage  Challenge Spain  Commerce – get raw materials from colonies and sell finished goods back to the colonies  Place to send criminals

3.  Most people didn’t know what America was like  Advertisers deceived prospective settlers  America=Paradise

4.  Jamestown was the first successful English colony in America  Funded by a joint-stock company – The Virginia Company of London received the charter  Settled in 1607  Swampy land  Terrible government  Disease  Raided by Indians

6.  Rose to leadership  Saved the Jamestown colony (no work-no food)  Kept peace with the Indians  1609 – 400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown but they lost John Smith who was injured in a gunpowder explosion and returned home  Winter 1608-1609 – “The Starving Time” – Without Smith, they had no leader -No food – Cannibalism - 440 died – Only 60 survived - More settlers were sent

8.  1612 – Planted a type of tobacco that the English liked  Tobacco became the colony’s “staple crop”  This gave the colony a reason to survive  Married Pocahontas  As Virginia became more successful, settlers got more freedom  House of Burgesses– July 1619 – First elected legislative assembly in America  Colonists now make their own laws

10.  New settlers arrived in Virginia - Women - Blacks – slaves or indentured servants Indian problems and disease continued

11. Pilgrims  Known as Separatists of the Church of England  Left England for Holland  Wanted to move to America  The London Company agreed to let them settle in Virginia  Left Plymouth, England Sept. 16, 1620  Ship was the Mayflower  Landed Dec. 21, 1620 on Cape Cod (Not Virginia)  The Pilgrims experienced a very harsh first Winter

12. Some Pilgrims knew they had no right to be where they were and that they would have no laws to govern them They created a new government before leaving the ship Governor – William Bradford (ruled for 31 years) Military Leader – Captain Miles Standish Squanto -Indian captured by the Spanish and escaped to England -Returned to America in 1619 to find his village gone (wiped out by disease) -Wandered into the Plymouth Colony in March 1621 -Acted as an interpreter -Showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn, fish, and hunt - The Plymouth Colony became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691

14.  Leader was John Winthrop who was elected Governor  This colony was self-governing from the start

15.  Founded by Roger Williams who was banished from Massachusetts  Rhode Island became a haven for the unaccepted  Anne Hutchinson – Banished from Massachusetts because she said God came to her so she didn’t have to adhere to or follow the rules of the Bible

17.  Founded by Thomas Hooker – Led Puritans out of Mass. and founded Hartford 1636  John Davenport – Founded New Haven 1637  New Haven and Connecticut merged in 1662

18.  1677 – Founded because Massachusetts became too big

19.  Combination of royal and self-governing  Charters went to individuals

20.  Charter was given to George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)  Settled by Catholics

21.  Overflow from Virginia  Similar to Virginia

22.  Settled by English farmers from Barbados  Brought slaves

23.  William Penn received the charter  Tolerated all religions

24.  James Oglethorpe received the charter in 1732  The settlers were mainly poor, criminals, and drunks  Georgia was used as a human barricade against Spanish Florida  The colony was a failure because there was no chance for profits and they became dependent on England (charity colony)

25.  New France - First permanent French settlement - Samuel de Champlain  New Netherlands (Dutch) - Due to Henry Hudson’s voyage 1609 - settled Manhattan 1623 Manhattan became a trading and financial center It was surrendered to James, Duke of York in 1644 and became an English possession Land was given to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret (New Jersey)

27.  Seized by Dutch in 1655  Delaware River (Wilmington, Delaware)  Brought idea of log cabin

28.  New Hampshire  Massachusetts  Rhode Island  Connecticut  New York  New Jersey  Pennsylvania  Delaware  Maryland  Virginia  North Carolina  South Carolina  Georgia