1. Building the First Colonies
Chapter 4

2. The Spanish Colonies
Chapter 4
Lesson 1

3. New Spain
To protect its land in the Americas, Spain formed colonies

4. Slavery in the Americas
Spain and Portugal forced Native Americans into Slavery
Many Native Americans died from hunger, work, and disease, so the colonists started using enslaved Africans

5. Settling the Borderlands
presidio = fort
mission = church
hacienda = ranch

6. The Virginia Colony
Chapter 4 Lesson 2

7. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
The First Colony
When: 1584
What happened:
Ran low on food and went back to England
Next Colony
When: 1587
It is a mystery…when John White returned everyone had disappeared

8. The Virginia Company When: Who: What they wanted: Early 1600’s
Group of English Merchants
What they wanted:
To start a colony in Virginia

9. Jamestown: England’s First Permanent Colony
Leader:
Captain John Smith
What happened:
Land was swampy
No one planted crops or wanted to work
Half the colonists died the first year
Captain Smith made a rule:
Anyone who doesn’t work, doesn’t eat!

10. Growth and Government in Jamestown
Leader:
John Rolfe
Cash Crop: crops sold for money
tobacco
Newcomers Arrive:
Indentured servants
People who agreed to work for free for a certain length of time
Slaves
House of Burgesses
When: 1619
It was Virginia’s legislature or law making group

11. Powhatan Problems Powhatan Confederacy Powhatan Wars
All tribes living in Virginia belong to this group
Trouble developed between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan people
Powhatan Wars
Fighting broke out between Powhatan and settlers
King James I made Jamestown a royal colony

12. The Plymouth Colony
Chapter 4 Lesson 3

13. The Pilgrims Journey Who: Where: When: Ship:
Pilgrims were looking for religious freedom
Where:
Virginia
When:
1620
Ship:
Mayflower

14. The Mayflower Compact
Signers agreed to make fair laws for the good of the colony
Two Important Ideas:
Self - government
People have the right to make their own laws
Majority Rule
If more than half agree to a law, then everyone must follow it

15. Building a Colony Who helped the colonists How: Tisquantum ( Squanto)
He showed the colonists where to fish
How to plant crops
Helped them trade with neighboring tribes

16. Plymouth Grows How colonists prospered: Trouble Starts
Farming, fishing, and fur trading
Trouble Starts
When:
1630
Why:
New colonists not friendly to Native Americans and were taking more and more of their land

17. The French and the Dutch
Chapter 4 Lesson 4

18. New France French merchants wanted wealth from the fur trade
The King wanted to start colonies in North America
First French settlement:
Quebec
Founder:
Samuel de Champlain
When:
1608
New France grew slowly

19. New Netherland Where: What the Dutch wanted:
Along Hudson River in what is today New York and New Jersey
What the Dutch wanted:
Profit from the fur trade
They believed they bought Manhattan Island
Name of settlement:
New Amsterdam
Good location for trade
Conflicts:
Disagreements with Native Americans over land
Many colonists and Native Americans killed
Algonquian tribe almost wiped out

20. Exploring New France Explorers: They found the Mississippi River
Jacques Marquette
Louis Joliet
They found the Mississippi River

21. Exploring New France Explorer:
Sieur de la Salle
Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France
Named this region
Louisiana
Settlement was a failure

22. Louisiana French King made Louisiana a What is a proprietary colony?
Proprietary Colony in 1712
What is a proprietary colony?
A colony owned by one person
Capital:
New Orleans
What happened:
Failed to attract many people