1. Colonizing America
SSUSH1: The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.
a. Explain Virginia’s development: include the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation, relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan, development of the House of Burgesses, Bacon’s Rebellion, & the development of slavery.

2. Why did the Spanish come to the New World?
Goals:
Colonize
Christianize
Conquer
3Gs
GOD
GLORY
GOLD

3. Spanish Explorers & the Colonies
Spanish in the Americas
Spanish conquistadors explored, conquered Native Americans, & started new colonies
Forced Native Americans to work on farms & in mines, thus making the Spanish richer
Did build missions & tried to convert Native Americans to Christianity, specifically the Roman Catholic religion & they forced Native Americans to adopt European ways

4. English Colonies in America

5. English: Why did the English colonize?
Wanted bases in North America for their privateers (ships); for protection against the Spanish
Wanted to find a Northwest Passage through North America to the Indies
Wanted new markets for their products
Overcrowding in England & people were looking for good jobs

6. Turning Points in Europe: what was going on?
Reformation
Divides Europe into Catholic & Protestant
Many will leave for religious reasons
Economic Changes
Enclosure movement: A change from renting land to kicking tenants off land to raise sheep for profit; former tenants became unemployed & poor, which made the colonies more appealing(attractive)
Types of Colonies
Royal-under the rule of the British monarch
Joint stock-investors combining their funds for large projects
Proprietary-owned by a person or group of people who could make laws & rule it as they wished

7. Roanoke Disaster Sir Walter Raleigh (nickname Sea Dog)
He tried twice to start a colony on an island off of the coast of what is today North Carolina
1st colony – did not work – starvation, & eventually the colonists abandoned the colony
2nd colony – is a mystery – the leader left to return to England for supplies & when he returned he could not find any colonists at all, they had disappeared

8. First Permanent English Settlement in the Colonies
Jamestown, Virginia

9. Jamestown Colony-Virginia
Businessmen get a charter from King James I
Started as a joint-stock company-funded by investors-these investors formed the Virginia Company & set up the Jamestown colony
Area of the new colony was swampy-mosquitos; settlers argued & were lazy; starvation & sickness set in
John Smith became the leader, he was injured & had to return to England
4,000 settlers died as a result and King James I took over
Began to cultivate(prepare soil for crops) tobacco to make money- saved the colony
Jamestown was then governed by the king- it becomes a royal colony
Jamestown colony began to govern themselves-England did not have the money to enforce its wishes & the king was so far away
So the colonists created a legislature in the Jamestown colony-the 1st governing body in the New World-House of Burgesses

10. Relationship with Native Americans and the development of Slavery
Powhatan-Native American Chief who helped the colonists of Jamestown get through the first 2 winters
Indentured servants-poor, young, white
Passage to the colonies was paid by a master
Were contracted to work for 7 years; very few did
As the colony grew so did the tensions between Native American groups & the colonists; colonists started pushing west
Development of slavery
As the colonies grew so did the need for slaves – why?
Native Americans did not have any immunities to European diseases & were dying off
Colonists began to look to Africa as a way to fulfill this lost labor source
Colonists did not want to do the hard labor the crops required

11. Bacon’s Rebellion: colonists fight back
Details
Nathaniel Bacon raised an army to fight the Native Americans because he wanted the land on Virginia’s frontier (wilderness land)
Bacon & his followers turned against the governor of Virginia & burned Jamestown
Bacon died suddenly of dysentery & the rebellion crumbled
Conclusion
Colonists were not willing to tolerate abusive government against poor farmers or governments that were not concerned with their interests