1. ENGLISH COLONIZATION

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What political, economic, religious, and social reasons led to the establishment of the thirteen English colonies?
Which historic documents and colonial practices contributed to the growth of representative government?
What differences existed between the main regions of the thirteen colonies?
What was life like in colonial America?
What factors contributed to religious freedom in the thirteen colonies?

4. Religion was a major Source of Conflict between European nations
Until the 16th century, the Roman Catholic Church was the Christian church.
After the Reformation, some nations adopted forms of Christianity that were different from the Catholic tradition
Some nations adopted a Protestant form of Christianity
England was one such nation
Spain remained Catholic, and the relationship between Spain and England became increasingly worse

5. SPANISH ARMADA

6. ENGLAND IN AMERICA
English made several failed attempts to colonize the New World
1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert – Newfoundland
1585 Roanoke (part 1)
1587 Roanoke (part 2)

8. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE ENGLAND IN AMERICA Who paid for it?
How did it survive?
How did the settlers govern themselves?

9. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE Who paid for it?
Joint-stock company: a company in which wealthy people put their money together to start a business/colony hoping that the colony will make them more money
King James of England gave a charter to the Virginia Company to form a colony

10. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE How did it survive?
The settlers did not find gold, but instead faced disease and hunger
The original leader, John Smith, forced everyone to work for their food and received help and food from the Powhatan natives
When he returned to England, the colony struggled, facing a very difficult winter called the “starving time”

11. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE How did it survive?
The colonists of Jamestown wanted to abandon their colony and return home, but supplies arrived from England
The colony finally figured out a resource that would make them money and make money for the Virginia Company: tobacco
Because of this cash crop, the colony not only survived, but thrived.

12. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE
How did it survive?

13. JAMESTOWN 1607 CE How did the settlers govern themselves?
The Virginia Company gave the colonists the right to govern themselves
In 1619, male colonists elected members of the colony to be law- making representatives, creating the HOUSE OF BURGESSES

14. House of burgesses
The first legislative body of elected representatives in North America