Aim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America? Do Now: What English settlements have we learned about so far?

Aim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America? Do Now: Take out New Netherland worksheet

 Roger Williams – minister who founded the first Baptist church in America  Opposed taking Indian land with force  He was forced to leave the colony  Founded the colony of Rhode Island ◦ Religious freedom ◦ Separation of church and state

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware  Religious freedom  Fertile soil and good climate for agriculture

 Threat to English trade  Its location hurt English colonies  King’s brother – Duke of York – drives out Dutch  English now have the Colony of New York

 Dutch established New Netherland  Patroon – person who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland ◦ Received large land grant  Indentured servants

 Duke of York gave his two friends part of his land ◦ New Jersey  Freedom of religion  Representative assembly

Aim: How did the English finish creating the 13 colonies in the South? Do Now: How did the Colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware come about?

 William Penn - Quaker  King Charles II owed the Penn family money  Gave William land in America ◦ Pennsylvania – “Penn’s woods”

 Used land as colony for Quakers  Religious freedom and equality for all  Live in peace with Native Americans  Southern counties later become Delaware colony

 Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia  Crops – tobacco, rice, and indigo  Long, hot summers ◦ Good for farming

 Lord Baltimore – creates Maryland for Roman Catholics fleeing persecution  Toleration Act – religious freedom  Based on tobacco

 African slaves  Royal colony – ruled by governors appointed by king  Later divided into North and South

 James Oglethorpe – founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors  Buffer zone between Spanish Florida  1700s – 13 English colonies