2. Life in early America Objectives/Standards: Describe the contributions of geographic and economic conditions, religion, and colonial systems of government to the development of American democratic practices. Describe the geography, cultures, and economics of the Southern, Middle Atlantic, and New England Colonies. Describe interactions (e.g., agricultural and cultural exchanges, alliances, conflicts) between Native Americans and European settlers.

3. Do Now Brainstorm some push factors and some pull factors why colonists may come to the New World

4. Colony – What is a colony? A settlement in a new area. The first English colonies in North America were along the eastern coast. Colonist – What is a Colonist? An English man or woman that moves to the new world of North America.

6. Some Englishmen came for religious freedom from the Church of English. They wanted land and wealth that they couldn’t have in England. They wanted freedom from the King’s rule. They wanted a new beginning They want adventure. They wanted gold and riches.

7. Self-rule By 1735 there were over 6 million English men women and children looking to the 13 English Colonies here in North America for a new beginning.

8. Each colony was unique in it’s characteristics. However, they are grouped together based on location, reasons they were founded, and what types of industries they had.

9. Directions: each team will be given a piece of chart paper and a map of the origional 13 colonies. Group the colonies in appropriate groups with your team. You will have 5 minutes!

12. Closure: create a hashtag for this image pretending you are on a ship journeying to the new world

14. Do Now: You live in a town near London in the early 1700s. Some of your neighbors are starting new lives in the American colonies. You would like to go with them, but you cannot afford the cost of the trip. There is one way you can go, though. You can sign a paper promising to work as a servant for five years. Then you would be free—and in a new country! Would you sign the paper and go to America?

15. Puritans – Who were they? The Puritans came to New England to escape the King who punished them for their religion. They governed a strict colony that was based around the bible and the church. They had elected officials but they were male. No women could serve in the Puritan government.

16. The settlers here made a great deal of money fur trapping. Other economic opportunities in New England were based around the sea: fishing, shipbuilding, and whaling. The soil was rocky and so the New England Colonies were not known for their farms.

17. People in New England towns lived, worked, and worshiped close together. The meeting house and the church were the most important buildings in the town.

18. The Puritans settled in Massachusetts. Because they were so strict some Puritans left Massachusetts and founded the other New England Colonies. The Colonies of New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were friendlier more tolerant of people’s differences.

19. By 1750, busy cities cropped up around the New England colonies. Boston became world famous for its shipping port.

20. One room One teacher Very strict, children were often whipped for punishment The main subject was reading

21. Directions: As you read p.78-82 identify the reasons English colonists came to New England. Pull out key details Pilgrims left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution Puritans wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church Reasons for coming to New England

22. Pilgrims Puritans

23. What religion was in control of Massachusetts? Name three ways in which the colonies in New England made a living? What was the soil like in New England?

25. Do Now: If YOU were there... A year ago, in 1609, you moved to the colony of Virginia. Life here has been hard. During the winter many people died of cold or sickness. Food is always scarce. Now it is spring, and a ship has come from England bringing supplies. In a week it will sail home. Some of your neighbors are giving up and returning to England. They ask you to come, too. Would you take the ship back to England?

26. Overseer– What is a overseer? Someone that was hired to watch slaves as they worked. Plantation owners hired overseers to watch the slaves and make sure they did their jobs. Indigo– What is indigo? A plant that was used in making blue dye. The farmers grew indigo plants. Indigo was an important cash crop for the Southern colonies.

27. As touching the quality of this country, three things there be, which in few years may bring this colony to perfection; the English plow, vineyards, & cattle... All our riches for the present do consist in tobacco, wherein one man by his own labor has in one year, raised to himself to the value of 200 pounds sterling; and another by the means of six servants has cleared at one crop a thousand pound English. These be true, yet indeed rare examples, yet possible to be done by others.” How does this letter indicate the importance of tobacco in Virginia? Primary Source!

28. The settlers here, for the most part, wanted to make money. They brought their families and the slaves worked the land. Many settlers here were rich and owned large plantations. A Plantation grows only one type of crop. Very different from the farms of the Middle Colonies.

29. -almost entirely agricultural -plantations were abundant -a large part of the workforce was African slaves -plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo

30. -Slavery was legal -Children born to slaves became slaves themselves -Slaves were imported from Africa. -Slave traders made a great deal of money.

31. Directions: Pull out key details defining the political, social, and economic factors present in the southern colonies using section 1 in your textbooks

32. EventPoliticalEconomicSocial 1.The Foundation of Jamestown 1.In 1605 a company of English merchants asked King James I for the right to found, or establish, a settlement. In 1606 the king granted the request of the company to settle in a region called Virginia. 1.The investors in the new settlement formed a joint-stock company called the London Company. about 40 miles up the James River in Virginia, the colonists founded Jamestown 1.Most of the men who came to Jamestown were adventurers with no farming experience or useful skills such as carpentry. Jamestown was surrounded by marshes full of disease- carrying mosquitoes. By the time winter arrived, two-thirds of the original colonists had died

33. EventPoliticalEconomicSocial

34. What problems did the Jamestown colonists face?

36. The Breadbasket Colonies A Nickname for the Middle Colonies because they produced so much grain: Oats, wheat, rye.

37. Immigrant– What is an immigrant? A person that comes into a country to start a new life. People came to America from many different places to start a new life. Diversity– What is diversity? A group of people from very different backgrounds. The Middle colonies were an interesting place to live because of the diversity among the people.

38. The settlements here were considered a Royal Colonies. The King send governors here to watch over the Middle Colonies. However it was difficult for the King to have much power over the colonies and many colonies were considered to be self-rules.

39. -The Middle Colonies were based on agriculture; small farms that produced many different crops. -There were also factories that produced iron.

40. -Sometimes called the “The Bread Basket” colonies because they grew so many crops for making bread. -The land was lush and fertile. - The wagon was invented in Pennsylvania and used for trade.

41. -Quiz: what crops grew in the Middle Colonies? Name three. -What was the soil like? -Name the four Colonies in the Middle?

42. -This religion was a big part of life in the Middle Colonies. Although other religions were welcome, the Quakers came to Pennsylvania to escape persecution by the King of England. -Lived in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania