1. English come to the New World

2. England Island country in Europe Part of Great Britain
Religious Conflict kept them from settling the New World
France and Spain both came to the New World 100 years earlier
Queen Elizabeth wanted to compete with Spain
Countries were enemies
Encourages buccaneers and seadogs to raid Spanish ships

3. Ecological Revolution
European Crops
Livestock
Depopulation of natives
Growth of African slavery
Spain held most of the New World (Florida and NM southward)

4. Push Factors Population growth Unemployment
Too many people, too little jobs
Adventure
Religious freedom
Protestant Reformation creates the Anglican Church (Church of England)

5. What is a colony? An area under the control of another nation
Joint-Stock Company
King grants people a charter to form their own colony
Govern independently
Proprietary Colony
All land in new colony owned by the King, and the colony was ruled by a governor

6. Roanoke First Attempt to colonize the New World 1585
Landed off the coast of North Carolina
Led by John White – named Governor
Virginia Dare (John White’s Granddaughter)
First English child born in New World
White and 100 others settle
more colonists joined

7. Roanoke Cont. Supplies run short – White goes back to England
White returned Aug. 18th, 1590
Colony failed after people mysteriously disappeared
“CROATOAN” was carved in a tree
The Lost Colony

9. Jamestown First permanent English settlement in the New World
Set up the first British colony, the Virginia Colony
Settlers landed in a swampy area of northern VA in 1607
Led by John Smith
Dozens died from from starvation disease, and malnutrition
Colonists forced to eat dogs and rodents
400 settlers arrived
Less than 100 lived by the winter of 1610 – ”Gentlemen” did not know how to fend for themselves
Native American attacks increase

10. Jamestown cont.
Escapes devastation when John Rolfe plants tobacco seeds
VA has fertile soil
Smoking tobacco popular in England
Jamestown rich from tobacco profits
Slavery expands
Establish their own government
House of Burgesses
Made laws for the colony
Included a governor and representatives
Democracy
Still have to follow British law