1. Bell Ringer - September 24, 2014
Your parents go out of town and you stay home to care for your siblings. List four activities you’re finally able to do with your parents away. What would you most miss about them being away? Explain
Agenda:
Bell Ringer / Attendance
England’s 13 Colonies

2. Bell Ringer - September 26, 2014
Colonists settling in the New World lived under Mother England’s rules and had obligations and responsibilities. Still, England was a great distance away, providing settlers tremendous freedoms.

3. England’s Thirteen Colonies

4. Bell Ringer - September 29,2014
The year is 1733, and you live in England. You have decided to move to one of England’s 13 colonies. Which colony would you move to and why (5 traits/characteristics)?
Agenda:
Crash Course – US History
England’s 13 Colonies
Test corrections will be on Monday to allow adequate time to work on assignment
Period
8th Grade
Time HR
7:35 – 7:40
5 min
1st
7:45 – 8:17
32 min
2nd
8:22 – 8:54
3rd
8:59 – 9:31
4th
9:36 – 10:17
41 min
5th
10:22 – 11:03
6th
11:08 – 11:50
1st lunch: 11:08 – 11:28
2nd lunch: 11:29 – 11:50
42 min

5. Motivations
Colonists had many reasons for leaving Europe and coming to the New World.
Space: lack of space in Europe to farm, especially in England.
Stability: frustration with wars and rebellions that went on in Europe that made the region unstable.
Wealth: Easy to make money and get rich quickly in America.
Gold, iron ore, timber, wood
Farmers in the south saw a chance to earn a lot by growing and selling tobacco.
Religious Freedom: Religious differences between Catholics & Protestants caused many Protestants to move to the New World.

6. Regions Three Geographic Regions: Three Ownership Types:
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Three Ownership Types:
Proprietary Colony: owner or proprietor owned the land and controlled the land-appointed by King of England
A Charter- written document granting land and authority to set up colonial governments.
Royal Colony - owned and ruled by the King directly.

7. New England Colonies

8. New England Colonies Massachusetts Founded: 1620 Why? By the Pilgrims
Landing at Plymouth Rock
Massachusetts
Founded: 1620
By the Pilgrims
William Bradford and John Winthrop
Why?
Escape harsh treatment from the English
(Religious Freedom)
Establish a Puritan commonwealth

9. New England Colonies Rhode Island Founded 1636 Why? Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Founded 1636
By Roger Williams
Why?
Opposed the “New England Way” & guaranteed religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay.

10. New England Colonies Connecticut Founded in 1635 Why? By Thomas Hooker
Puritans expanded settlement into a new colony.
Establish a fur trade route

11. New England Colonies New Hampshire Founded in 1622 Why?
John Wheelwright
New Hampshire
Founded in 1622
By Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason
Why?
To profit from trade and fishing
Escape religious persecution

12. Middle Colonies
The Breadbasket Colonies

13. Middle Colonies Pennsylvania Founded in 1681 Why? By William Penn
Penn’s Woods
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Founded in 1681
By William Penn
Why?
Area where Quakers could live according to their beliefs.
Establish a Quaker colony

14. Middle Colonies Founded in 1638 Why?
Delaware
Fort Christina State Park
Founded in 1638
By the Swedes and Finns (Fort Christina) later given to W. Penn
Why?
Religious Freedom and a better life.
Trade

15. Middle Colonies New York Founded in 1624 Why?
New York (New Netherlands)
Fort Orange
New York
Founded in 1624
By the Dutch (Dutch West Indies Company)
Why?
Make $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Trade

16. Middle Colonies New Jersey Founded in 1664 Why?
Duke of York, George Carteret, & John Berkeley
New Jersey
Founded in 1664
By the Duke of York, George Carteret, & John Berkeley
Why?
Land given by the Duke; provided religious freedom, land grants & representative assembly.

17. Southern Colonies

18. Southern Colonies Virginia Founded in 1607 Why?
Jamestown
Virginia
Founded in 1607
Virginia Company of London (English)
Why?
Make $$$$$$$$$ for the Virginia Company
Search for gold
English outpost against Spain

19. Southern Colonies North Carolina Founded in 1653
Founded by Virginia colonists
Make $$$$$$$$$
Indigo, rice, tobacco

20. Southern Colonies South Carolina Founded in 1663
Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II
Make $$$$$$$$$
Indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, cattle

21. North and South Carolina
Became separate colonies in 1729.
New Bern is capital of NC
Charles Towne is capital of SC
The Piedmont of both colonies was settled by Scots-Irish who travelled down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania down into the backcountry.
Scots-Irish: hearty, independent minded, Presbyterian, distrustful of the British.

22. Southern Colonies Georgia Founded in 1732 Why? By James Oglethorpe
A refuge for debtors (One that owes something to another)
Buffer against Spanish Florida

23. Southern Colonies Maryland Founded in 1632 Why? By Lord Baltimore
A religious haven for Roman Catholics fleeing England.

24. III: The Economies of the 13 Colonies
A: New England Colonies
2. Fishing
1. Shipbuilding
B: The Middle Colonies - The Bread Basket
1. Farming- wheat, other staple crops for food
C: Southern Colonies
1. Cash crops (grown for sale)
a. tobacco
b. rice
c. indigo

25. IV: The Beginning of Slavery
1. Plantation system: large scale agriculture.
More work than indentured servants could do.
2. Triangular Trade: the pattern of trade that developed among the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
3. The Middle Passage: Voyage from Africa to the Americas.

26. Triangular Trade beads, copper, cloth, hardware, guns and munitions
Slaves traded for sugar, molasses, rum, and tobacco
Slaves to work in Caribbean and America

27. The Middle Passage
The leg of the trade between Africa and American colonies.
Slaves were transported in below-human conditions.
mortality rates were 12% or higher and were considered the “cost of the business”.
The Middle Passage