OFF THE TEE

Using, the first letter of the colonies

create an acronym, in the order listed.Ex: Never Match Chewbacca Racing Natalie

Portman’s Nissan During Valentine Magic Nominating Selena Gomez

Ex 2:New England: Never Mock Rapping Children

Middle: No No Puff DiddySouthern: My Very Nosy Students Gripe

New HampshireMassachusetts ConnecticutRhode IslandNew YorkPennsylvaniaNew JerseyDelawareVirginiaMarylandNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaGeorgia

Off the Tee1. What N.E. colony grew the fastest?2. What N.E. colony did Thomas Hooker start?3. What was the name of America’s first representative council?4. Compare and contrast at least two reasons why the Puritans came to the New World versus the motives of the Jamestown settlers.

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Colonizing the New World

•PUSH / PULL Factors

•PUSH: Religious persecution, Overcrowding, Unjust governing, over taxed

•PULL: Money$$$, Land, Freedom, Frontier, Glory

Bell Ringer•List the New England Colonies

•What were they characterized by?

New England Colonies•Connecticut•Rhode Island•Massachusetts•New Hampshire~ Characterized by: Puritan Religious Values Fishing, Shipping, & Trade Subsistence Farming

• The Puritans came in masses to New England / John Winthrop was their governor, “We shall be as a city upon a hill.”

• Strict people / incredible work ethic / no starving time / Established the 1st full REPUBLIC system of self governing

• Created our 1st forms of PUBLIC EDUCATION…Desired their children to read the BIBLE.

• Didn’t believe in TOLERATION for other religious groups / religious freedom only for Puritans.• Drove off many people due to harshness of trying to attain perfection.• Eventually, educated themselves out of existence

Plymouth…1620Pilgrims brought saints & strangers that needed to be governed…

The MAYFLOWER COMPACT= 1st Self Governing document in American history. Started the legacy.

MASSACHUSSETTS…1630

CONNECTICUT…1636• Thomas Hooker established a farming community

where he could preach as he wished.• Established our 1st WRITTEN CONSTITUTION…the

Fundamental Orders, which est. rules and rights for everyone.

RHODE ISLAND…1636• Roger Williams was driven out

of Mass. for contrary opinions• Established a SEPARATION of

CHURCH & STATE• Allowed religious toleration

NEW HAMPSHIRE & MAINE …1629• Established with religious toleration / recruited many middle class with free land opportunities• Economy based on timber, trade, & shipping / NOT SIGNIFICANT to colonial make-up

NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

Exit TicketWhy did the Pilgrims

and Puritans establish colonies?

Why did John Winthrop state “We

shall be as a city upon a hill” about the Massachusetts

colony?

Bell Ringer

1.List all 5 of the New England Colonies…

2.Explain how all 5 of these colonies were established

New England Colonies• Plymouth

• Pilgrims – Mayflower Compact

• Massachusetts • Puritans – City on the

Hill/Education

• New Hampshire/Maine • Not super significant

• Connecticut • Thomas Hooker – 1st written

constitution

• Rhode Island • Roger Williams – Separation of

church/state

The Middle Colonies•New York •New Jersey•Pennsylvania•Delaware~ Characterized by:

Breadbasket Colonies Diverse Ethnic Groups Shipping & Trade

Cash Crop of GRAIN

The Bread Basket Colonies•Bread= CARBS Makes your Middle grow•BREADBASKET= like a dozen different doughnuts

• Business, Trade, Cities, Artisans and Merchants • Rich soil, mild climate, with a long growing season:

important for growing grains.• Grains and Meat became CASH CROPS• CASH CROPS: Crops produced for profit instead of for use of grower.

• Goods shipped through New York or Philadelphia

The Dutch Colonize•1621 Dutch West India Company: trading colony

•Governor paid NA $24 worth of beads/goods in exchange for island

•Slow growth: No push factors •No elected governing body• Toleration was practiced and brought many diverse groups.

• Many young families• Many were poor and lower class

• Many languages, at least 16.

The Dutch and Swedes: Dwedes

• Swedes: “pulled” by fur trade• Dutch and Swedes = trade rivals• England and the Dutch Empires

go to war: the American colony becomes the main target of the King of England.

• Dutch seize the colony (Delaware) and join with New Netherlands

• Swedes teach the Dutch • Log cabins: most common

frontier home• Dutch teach the Swedes

• How to make pretzels

New York is Born•The Goal was close the gap between the N.E. colonies in the North and the Chesapeake (Southern) Colonies in the South•New Netherland was to be taken by the King’s brother…The Duke of York•He floated up to the harbor at the tip of Manhattan and without a fight, took the city from Stuyvesant. New Netherland surrenders!•In 1664 he became the Proprietor of NEW YORK

New York is Born• Allows Dutch to keep their lands and religions but appoints

government and council to rule• Prospered greatly as the English most diverse of all the

colonies.

•Greatest harbors in the world at the time.

New Jersey

• The Duke granted two of his friends land in modern day New Jersey

• Established for religious freedom • Developed a charter that

created a toleration law• Many diverse people came

and made the two men rich• The King bought out the men

and made it a Royal Colony in 1702.

Pennnnnsylvania• King Charles owed William Penn’s Father a

debt.• Penn got a land grant to become a

PROPRIETOR over a colony• He brought 2,000 colonists• Established Philadelphia as the

capital city. Means= “City of Brotherly Love”

•Penn was a Quaker• A radical form of Protestantism• They sought an “Inner Light” to

understand the Bible• Equality for all was key to their faith,

including N.A.

Pennsylvania Thrives• Religious toleration• Peace and fair treatment to the N.A• Pennsylvania prospers

• Fertile land / Navigable river / just need access to the ocean?

• Temperate climate for growing GRAIN (cash crop)

• Colony Multiplies = 18,000 inhabitants by 1700

• William Penn leased the land to create a harbor and access to the sea for Pennsylvania.

- Ruled both colonies with the same Governor and assembly

- Division between people: breaks off and becomes Delaware

New Sweden (Delaware)• 1638: Swedish traders founded

it on the lower Delaware river • Established by the Swedes for $

$$• Fur Trade and grain farming

• Hostile takeover by Peter Stuyvesant and the Dutch in 1655.

• Eventually governed by Pennsylvania for their access to the Atlantic.

The Southern Colonies •Virginia

•Maryland•N. Carolina•S. Carolina•Georgia~ Characterized by: Large Plantations SLAVE LABOR

Cash Crops of Rice, Indigo, & TOBACCO

The 1st SUCCESSFUL English settlement • John Smith / Pocahontas / Captain Newport• Survived brutal winter starving conditions twice with help from the Powhattan Indians.• Made a success after JOHN ROLFE brought the cash crop of TOBACCO.• Population grew quickly due to free land / many indentured servants created labor force.• 1st REPRESENTATIVE ASSMEBLY in history in 1619 with the formation of the

Virginia House of Burgesses.• Only for ADULT / MALE/ WHITE /LAND OWNING / CHURCH MEMBERS

NORTH CAROLINA…1677

GEORGIA…1732

MARYLAND…1634VIRGINIA…1607

SOUTHERN COLONIES

SOUTH CAROLINA…1670

Refuge for pirates / great place to get Timber to build boats / Tar was a byproduct of tobacco / Naval Stores were main export / Very Democratic people / Religious Freedom

Rice, Indigo, Tobacco, & Wine were the main cash crops / Large plantations meant a much needed labor force = SLAVERY / Aristocracy brought by the French Huguenots

Refuge for debtors. James Oglethorpe was the proprietor. Military buffer against the Spanish & NA in Florida and the French to the west

Refuge for Catholics, yet inhabited by more Protestants. Religious freedom / Lord

Baltimore= proprietor 1st TOLERATION ACT

South: Plantationville•Long, hot, humid summers, heavy rainfall•CASH CROPS:

•Tobacco•Indigo•Rice

•Barrels of tobacco were sent downriver to the coast= less major port cities then N.E or Middle colonies

Virginia• 1st successful English Settlement:

• John Smith/Pocahontas/ Captain Newport• Survived two “starving times” with help from

Powhatans• John Rolfe brought tobacco and made Jamestown a

success• Virginia House of Burgesses:

• 1st Representative Assembly in 1619• Adult/Male/White/Land Owning/Church Members

MARYland•Refuge for Catholics: religious tolerance•Lord Baltimore Jr. is granted charter

•Settlers given land: extra acres for every child and servant he brought: PULL factors

• Excellent water ways: Potomac River= easy trade• Great source for fish, oysters, crabs,• Religious toleration attracts Protestants • TOLERATION ACT 1649: guaranteed religious tolerance

for all Christians

North and South Carolina

•North Carolina: Settled by outspread of Virginians• Needed more land

for farming tobacco and corn

• Most democratic colony

• Pirates made them a safety port

• South Carolina:• Pulled people from the

West Indies• Brought indigo • Rice

• Used African slaves to grow rice and tend cattle

• Had thick, pine forests• Supplied English navy

with lumber, tar and pitch

• Slow growth, humid and swampy,• Large amounts of land offered to noblemen

Georgia: colony for the poor

•1732: James Oglethorpe founded Georgia• Refuge for debtors

•Eng. Gov. wanted to make it a military outpost

“BUFFER”• Spanish in Florida• French in Louisiana

•Oglethorpe= strict rules• King made it a royal colony in

1752