J A M E S T O W N T O P E N N S Y LVA N I A

ENGLISH COLONIES

COLONIAL ACTIVITY

• Break up into groups of 4• Grab one textbook for each member of the group• Read the following sections on different colonies:• Jamestown (Virginia) pg 21 and 23• Mass. Bay Colony pg 24• Rhode Island pg. 24-25 • Pennsylvania pg. 26

• You will be making a travel brochure and argue which colony you would want to join

TO BE TURNED IN

• 2 Brochures that would prompt someone to come to one of the colonies• Should have pictures • Tell the history of the colony• Gives reasons to go there• Will need to have at least 2 additional facts you found in research

via the tablets• 15pts each

• Argument: should write down which colony you think would be best to join and why. Needs to compare to the others (counterclaim) and demonstrate that your colony is still the better choice (5pts) This portion should be done by each member

JAMESTOWN

• First English Settlement in 1607 by John Smith

• A joint-stock company project What's this?

• Not very successful at first. Why?

• Cash Crops: Tobacco saves Virginia• Indentured Servants start the labor

JAMESTOWN CONT.

• Issues: Native people are eventually driven off or killed (no mestizo class develops)

• Attractions: • Offered 50 acres for anyone who paid their passage over

or another's. • Tobacco was made quite a bit of money. • Mild climate

NEW ENGLAND

• Background: English citizens were members of the Anglican church. Many felt it was too Catholic for them so wanted to “purify” the church and became Puritans.

• John Winthrop and the city upon the hill

• Government controlled by the church

NEW ENGLAND CONT.

• Products: Industry (shipbuilding, lumber, fishing)

• Issues: Pretty gung ho about their church• Church attendance required by law• Only church members could vote• Religious fighting• Native conflict (King Philips War with Metacom)

• Attractions: Above

PROVIDENCE-RHODE ISLAND

• Roger Williams disagrees with the Puritans and breaks off• Separatist• Said we had no claim to the land (should buy it)• Everyone should be free to choose their religion• Separation of church and state

PENNSYLVANIA

• William Penn inherits a ton of land from daddy and Charles II

• Quakers (society of friends)• No formal ministers• Plain living• Opposed war

Attractions: 50 acres of land per settler, freedom of religion and better relationships with natives

PROBLEMS IN THE COLONIES

• Mercantilism runs the economies of Europe• Mercantilism claims there is a set amount of wealth in the

world• Wealth needed to be extracted from the colonies for the

mother country

• Navigation Acts• No country could trade with the colonies unless in

English/colonial ships• Most goods could only be sent from America to England

FREE WRITE NAVIGATION ACTS

• Its easy to criticize England for enforcing these laws but do we do this in our country today or ask our government to do it? Millions of dollars and jobs are sent oversees because of cheaper labor prices etc. should we keep them in the country to gain the profits? Or would this simply make us the England in this scenario? Is that ok for the government to enforce those kinds of laws to help the local economy? What would you do and why?

COLONIAL MOVEMENTS

• Although colonies felt somewhat unified they had many differences

• Plantation south vs Free north• From 1690-1750 the number of slaves increased from

13k to over 200k

• Northerners hear horror stories of the way the slaves were treated and begin to resist it but do they have a right to tell the southerners how to live?

ENLIGHTENMENT

• Movement of the early 1700’s encouraged people to learn and experiment to find truth

• People like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin both encouraged this

• John Locke and the social contract claimed that government had to look out for the best interests of the people

• Thomas Paine and Common Sense claimed that British tyranny was hurting the colonies

GREAT AWAKENING

• 1730-50’s a religious revival spread throughout the colonies

• In Massachusetts the power of the Puritan church began to fade

• Revivalists like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards• “Sinners in the Hands of an angry god”• Itinerant preachers (no formal schooling)• New religions rise up focusing more on individual

conversion and less about organized religion

IMPACT OF TWO MOVEMENTS

• The Enlightenment and Great Awakening both encouraged people to find their form of truth or to accept truth that was based on data

• People became disillusioned with traditional authority figures like England and organized religion

• Feelings of independence among colonists are going to help lead to the Revolutionary War