1. Setting the stage for a New Nation

2. Roots of Government Magna Carta 1215 Limited the power of the king.
Had to ask to raise taxes

3. Roots of Government Salutary neglect Hands off policy
Passed laws but didn’t enforce

4. Spanish Armada 1588 Spain sent its Navy to destroy England.
England was able to defeat the Armada

5. Spanish Armada
The consequence of the defeat. Spain was weakened. England and other countries settled Northern Colonies

6. Differences in Style English settled and stayed French traded and left
Spanish Destroyed

7. St. Augustine
The first successful settlement in North America
1513

8. Roanoke - The Lost Colony
Started by Sir Walter Raleigh
Early settlers more interested in Gold than fishing
When Gold ran low, they returned to England
In 1587, Raleigh sent a second group but they arrived too late in season to plant crops
Their leader (John White) sailed back to England for more supplies. While there fighting broke out between England and Spain.
His return was delayed for three years.
When he finally reached the island, the colonist had disappeared.
Carved on the doorpost was the word CROATOAN

9. Jamestown
First successful English colony in America.

10. Jamestown Pocahontas “saving” John Smith
Settled by the river, the land was marshy. The Natives lived deeper into the forest.

11. Jamestown John Smith almost killed himself with gun powder.
Two years earlier the colony would have rejoiced. This time they almost died.
While John Smith left, the colony experienced a “starving time. 60 of the 214 lived

12. Land Disputes
Native-Americans found out what the settlers wanted and cut them off.
What did they want?

13. John Rolfe Married to Pocahontas Developed high grade tobacco
Gave England a reason to care about America

14. Bacon’s Rebellion
1676
By 1670 ¼ of free white men were former servants.
Resented land owners
Lost the rebellion, but forced laws to change.

15. New England Colonies Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island
Connecticut

16. Why Come? These settlers came here mostly for religious freedom.
Highly religious people.

17. Subsistence Farming Growing mainly just enough for your family.
Sell very little of what you grow

18. Staple Crops Crops that are a main part of the diet
Corn is a prime example

19. Town Hall Meetings Close communities.
Town meetings to settle problems.
Met in the Church

20. Puritan Theocracy
Church is political
Punishments come from the Bible

21. Middle Colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey

22. The Middle Colonies/ Jobs
Most of the Craftsman and merchant traders came from here.
Still had some slaves.

23. Religion Had religious freedom throughout
Pennsylvania mostly Quaker though
William Penn

24. Why Come?
Came here for both religious freedom and Jobs/Money

25. Southern Colonies Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
Georgia

26. Land determines social position. You own land you have power.
Importance of Land
Land determines social position. You own land you have power.
Voting restricted to white male land owners

27. Commercial Farmers
Had large farms (plantations) for the purpose of making money.

28. Cash Crops
Crops that are highly profitable

29. Why Come? Came here for the purpose of making money
Land = Power and Money

30. Charter
A legal document that gives you rights to the land.

31. Colony
A distant area that is controlled by the home country.

32. Market A place to buy and sale goods.
The goal of the Colonies was to create a market for English goods.

33. Indentured Servant
Work for a term of time and then receive your freedom.
Free trip to the Colonies

34. Apprentice
Training to become a master craftsman. Work for little or no pay and then you start your own business.

35. Triangular Trade
Columbian Exchange
Trading goods between 3 ports.

36. Plantations Had to have many slaves to operate.
Cash crops-crops raised for trade, not consumption. This is industrial agriculture.

37. Slavery
Plantations and Commercial farming led to the need for free labor.
This is a part of the Triangular Trade
Called the Middle Passage
First African Slaves in America were in 1619

38. Push/Pull Factors Pull- Good things that draw you to an area.
Push- Bad things that make you leave.

39. Puritans
Wanted to “purify,” clean up the Church of England. They were forced to leave England.

40. Pilgrims
People that left England for a new home and religious freedom in 1620.
They are Puritans.

41. Great Migration
Pilgrims leaving England for religious freedom in the mid 1600’s

42. Trade
The job in which you do or exchanging goods.

43. The Great Awakening
A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730’s and 1740’s

44. Why is it important Changed colonial religion
Affected social and political life
Drew people of diff’t regions, classes and races together
This is one of the few times people from diff’t colonies exchanged ideas
People were introduced to new ideas, colonies with less political freedom were introduced to more democratic systems

45. Enlightenment
A movement that took place during the 1700’s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society

46. Why is it important
Ideas of the Enlightenment influenced colonial leaders
John Locke’s social contract theory – which stated there was a contract between gov’t and citizens
Also said people had natural rights such as equality and liberty

47. King Phillip’s War
A conflict that started in 1675 between the Wampanoag, led by Metacomet (also known as King Phillip) and colonists who wanted Indian lands. Ended in 1676, after 600 colonists and nearly 3,000 Indians had died

48. Why is it important
Alliances developed among the colonists and certain Native groups, such as the Iroquois League, and they fought with the colonists against Metacomet.

49. French and Indian War
War fought between the French and their native allies and the English and their native allies over land in the Ohio River Valley

50. Why is it important England and the colonists won the war
Treaty of Paris was signed
Benjamin Franklin came up with the Albany Plan of Union
Tried to unite the colonies for the first time
Didn’t pass, local governments and peoples didn’t want to give up power

51. Franklin’s political cartoon

52. Treaty that ended the French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that ended the French and Indian War

53. Why is it important The treaty gave Canada to Britain
Britain also gained all French lands east of the Mississippi River with the exception of the city of New Orleans and two small islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Britain also received Florida from Spain, who had allied with France
Changed the balance of power in N.A. Opened up the west to British settlers

54. Pontiac and his Rebellion
Pontiac was an Ottawa chief who had fought with France, he tried to keep British settlers from coming west. His rebellion started in 1763 within a month he had destroyed or captured 7 British forts. Surrendered in 1766

55. PONTIAC = DETROIT

56. Why is it important
Britain was scared more fighting would take place if colonists kept moving west
King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763 – this law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, and ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River valley
The Proclamation angered colonists and went mostly ignored by them

57. Navigation Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament between limiting colonial trade

58. Why is it important
These acts did such things as forbade colonists from trading with other countries
Required them to use English ships to transport goods
Required all good to pass through English ports and pay duties or taxes

59. John Peter Zenger Case
Officials arrested Zenger claiming he printed false statements about the Gov. of New York thus damaging the Governor’s reputation
Zenger’s attorney argued that Zenger could publish anything he wanted as long as it was true

60. Why is it important The jury sided with Zenger and his attorney
This shows that colonists believed that people had a right to voice their opinions and ideas openly without the threat of prosecution.
This concept would later be guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.