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Who was involved? Where did the event take place? When did the event take place? What happened? Why is it significant?


Good example or poor example? What do you think the teacher’s comments

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Good example or poor example? What are the differences between the first

example and this example?


Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian

explorers(who) Participated in a race to claim land in America (what) Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where) 1400-1600’s (when) Competition between nations – global leadership

(why)Desire for wealth (why)Spread of Christianity (why)

Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)

Exploration

Mayflower Compact Guided Reading

1. Where are these loyal subjects from (lines 2-3)? Great Britain, France, Ireland

2. Where do these loyal subjects expect to land and settle (line 5)? Northern Virginia

3. What body/group are these people forming (lines 6-7)? Civil Political Body (government made up of citizens)

4. This groups is promising to make fair and just laws (line 8).

Mayflower Compact Guided Reading

5. True/False: This group is only looking out for the best interests of the rich (line 10).

6. Where did this group land (line 11)? Cape Cod, Massachusetts

7. On what date did this ship land (line 12)? November 11, 1620

8. How many subjects took this pledge? Forty-one

So what is the Mayflower Compact?

Setting sail from England Landing at Plymouth Rock – 1620 Group of 41 survivors Thinking: What will help allow this

colony to survive? Drafted the Mayflower Compact Precursor to the U.S. Constitution

So what is the Mayflower Compact?

First attempt at self-government here in the colonies

Pact among subjects to govern themselves with the priority being what is best for the whole group (not just the rich)

Create laws that are just and equal

Why do people explore/experiment?








If you were searching for wealth on new land, what would you dig up?






Who explores?

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Who explores?

Why do people

explore?

What European powers began

exploring North America around

1400?

Dutch English French Spanish Scandinavian

Early European Exploration

Why were Europeans Exploring?

Reasons

Competition between nations(other countries were doing it)

Desire for wealth(natural resources on the new land – I don’t have it and I want it)

Spread of religion(Christianity)

Results(short term)

Land acquisition Countries had more land with resources

on it, this makes countries rich, to be rich means you also have power

Colonies were established Permanent settlements/towns

Columbian Exchange Natural resources were shared between

the mother country and its colonies (see map)

War(s) over this land

To take control of an area and have To take control of an area and have people live therepeople live there

Cultures that already existed in North America

were forever changed Who had lived in North American before us?

Destruction of Native American empires Through war: French and Indian War Unintentional: Disease

Great Britain wins the east coast of North America Thirteen original colonies are established

Effects/Impacts(Long Term)

Map Day

See Colonial America packet: p. 4

British Exploration (why) and British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)Colonization (where)

Land of the free!(freedom of religion)

Lets strike it rich!(wealth)

GB is on its way to the top!

(world power)

Political Strength (competition)

Becoming/maintaining world power status Spain on the way out, GB on the way up in terms of world power

Everyone else is doing it and I don’t want them to be bigger and better than me

Desire for wealth (wealth=power) Mercantilism

Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with few resources, America few people with great resources) Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for manufacturing turn

them into finished goods and resell them to colonies

Religious freedom Pilgrims/Puritans/Catholics

Why the British explored…

Did GB find instant success (world

dominance, wealth, and freedom from

persecution)in North America?

Brand new world…

No “colonial” traditions Limited/no guidance No government/authority physically present

Life in the colonies?

What/who was there as the colonists

landed? Houses? Businesses? Roads? People?

Did these Native Americans live life the way colonists had been accustomed to (life in GB)?

Were there ways of life that could be shared though? Exchange of ideas – farming, agriculture, travel

Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer

flags?

What are the benefits of a homogeneous group?





What are the benefits of a heterogeneous group?





And Why?And Why?

How did colonists get houses?

Businesses? Had to bring people with these skills to

the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)

Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow

Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer

flags?

Move to one of the posters around the Move to one of the posters around the room.room.

(New England, Middle Colonies, Southern (New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies)Colonies)

1. Climate/Weather

2. What natural resources were most

important to this region?

Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

British Colonies

Long growing season Fertile, vacant land Sun Access to ports/water Freedom of religion (Maryland)

What did the South offer to Great Britain?

What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

First (successful) British settlement

Jamestown, Virginia (1606) “deadly” experience (initially)

Sent money, no experience and limited skill

Can you survive w/o shelter, food, water and defense? Finally, colonists recognize the formula for

success = diverse population (skills)

Southern Colonies

Farming culture dominated the South

Due to the weather/climate and landscape

Many, many small farmers Grew enough food for their families and

local town markets Very few large farmers

Grew crops for profit (lots of profit)

Economy of southern colonies

Plantations (really big farms)

Tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice = CASH CROPS!

Required labor: Who did all this work? Slaves As the demand for cash crops increased

(industrial revolution, desire for American tobacco), what happened to the demand for labor? By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor

on southern plantations

Economy of southern colonies

Was everyone in the south a

wealthy plantation owner?

Did everyone have slaves?

In Reality…

Southern Colonies


New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island

British Exploration

Ports for trading companies Timber Whale oil Fisheries Religious freedom (reformation)

What did the New England colonies offer

Great Britain?


What is the climate/environment like

in New England? Little demand for farm labor/slaves

Subsistence/community farming

Creating demand for skilled professionals

New England Economy

Diversity among colonists

Trades/skills Merchants, lumberjacks,

fishermen, ship builders, blacksmiths, weavers, printers

New England Community

Mercantilism

Trade based in raw materials Whale oil, timber/lumber,

fish Natural resources (shipped to

GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies

New England Economy

If we are going to survive as a

community, we must… Be family oriented Have women and children involved Maintain faith in religion Provide education

Why is this a need? Read what?


John Harvard – 1636

Boston, Massachusetts William and Mary College –

1693 Virginia

Education

Mayflower - 1620 Mayflower Compact

Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)

Court system Representative government (elections)

Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)


New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native

Americans

Will you teach us how to grow crops?

Absolutely, in exchange for resources

and finished goods.

Exchange of information,

techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)

Celebration of successful harvest Survival of the new colony

Thanksgiving

Southern Colonies


New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island

Middle Colonies New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,

Delaware

British Exploration

Blend of New England and Southern colonies Staple crops

Wheat, barley, oats (grains) Trade (beaver pelts) Hunting (deer, wild turkey) Mining (iron, coal) Minimal slave labor

What did the Middle colonies offer to Great

Britain?


William Penn

Establish a safe home for Quakers Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania

1681 granted a charter by King Charles II

Penn limited his own power Created an elected assembly (representative

self-government)

Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love(Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)

Largest colonial city - 1760

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania

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