Colonization of America

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Colonization of America

• By Abby Martin
• Heather Duvall

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Roanoke Island

• Roanoke Island is sometimes known as the Lost
  Colony.
• It was an economic venture that did not succeed.

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Jamestown

• Jamestown was the first permanent English
  settlement in North America.
• It was established in 1607 by the Virginia
  Company in hopes of making money.

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Plymouth Colony

• Was established by separatists from the Church of
  England.
• They wanted to avoid religious persecution.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Was settled by Puritans, who also wanted to avoid
  religious persecution.

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Pennsylvania

• Was settled by Quakers.
• The Quakers wanted to practice their faith
  without interference.

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Georgia

• Was settled by people who had been in debtors
  prisons in England.
• They hoped to be able to start a new life in the
  new world.

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Regions of Colonial America

• Part 2

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New England

• Hilly land, rocky soil, and a jagged coastline.
• Summers were mild and the winters were cold.
• Many people living in the New England colonies
  made a living by fishing, shipbuilding, or
  trading.
• Villages and the church's were the center of life
  for the religious reformers and separatists who
  settled there.

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Mid-Atlantic colonies

• Had coastal lowlands with deep and wide rivers.
• Rich farmlands were in the area, and the climate
  was moderate, or changeable.
• People made a living by raising livestock and
  growing grain.
• Business of the Mid-Atlantic colonies took place
  in the market towns.

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South

• Good harbors and rivers.

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South Atlantic Coastal Plain

• Climate was humid.
• Cash crops were important to the economy.
• There were large farms and plantations.
• Many people had smaller farms.
• On plantations you would find slaves.
• There were few cities and few schools
• People of the South belonged to the Church of
  England.
• For important business, people would come to the
  county seat.

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Relationship between the Colonies and England

• PART 3

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English taxes and trade

• England controlled the trade in colonies.
• Colonies were taxed by England to help pay for
  the French and Indian War. (Stamp Act)
• Taxes helped to pay for the British troops left
  in the colonies.
• Colonies traded raw materials (tobacco) for goods
  made in England.
• England wanted the colonies to trade only with
  England or English colonies.

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Colonies became dissatisfied with English rule
formany reasons.

• Colonists had no representation in Parliament,
  the English lawmaking body.
• Colonists felt that the colonial governors had
  too much power.
• England was strictly controlling the colonial
  legislature.
• The Proclamation of 1763 said that the settlers
  could not move into land west of the Appalachian
  Mountains.