1. English Settlement of North America

2. 8-1.3: Summarize the history of English settlement in New England, the mid-Atlantic region, and the South, with an emphasis on South Carolina as an example of a distinctly southern colony.

3. Who settled in the New England colonies?
religious groups escaping England
Pilgrims and Puritans
established schools so that their children could learn to read the Bible
Dissenters were exiled to other parts of the region- religious conformity

4. How did New Englanders make a living?
Farming was difficult do to poor soil and cold weather so they made money harvesting the lumber of the great northern woods, building ships, and engaging in trade.

5. What form of gov’t did New England have?
Mayflower Compact [1620] Puritans -the idea that the people form the government.
democratic form of government that included town meetings and a general assembly
All male church members could vote

6. Who settled in the Middle colonies?
The Middle Colonies had the greatest diversity of people and religions in British North America.
Dutch in New York, Swedes in Delaware, English Puritans and English Quakers in Pennsylvania

7. How did the Middle colonies make money?
Founded for the purpose of profit
good harbors and fertile fields
known as the ‘breadbasket’ of the colonies

8. What form of gov’t did the Middle Colonies have?
The king (Charles II) granted William Penn land in payment of a debt so Penn had the rights of a proprietor and could name the governor of the colony.
representative assembly

9. How were Southern colonies formed?
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the New World [1607].
Jamestown grew into the colony of Virginia and established the pattern for the southern colonies

10. How did the Southern colonies make money?
Cash crops -tobacco
the headright system- provided land to anyone who paid their own passage or the passage of others to the settlement
promoted large tobacco plantations
conflict over land with the natives as the settlers took more.
secured workers by paying for the passage of indentured servants.
By the end of the 1600s, they turned to African slaves.

11. What form of gov’t did Virginia, a Southern colony have?
House of Burgesses [1619]
settlers would have a voice in the colony.
not completely democratic, this assembly was in keeping with English political tradition since the Magna Carta.