North American Colonization:

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North American Colonization
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North American Colonization

• What Brought Europeans and Africans to America?

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1.The Aristocratic Impulse
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1.The Aristocratic Impulse

• -Primogeniture

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Primogeniture

• A custom practiced in Great Britain were the
  first son inherited all land, title and privilege
  of a noble father.

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1.The Aristocratic Impulse

• -Primogeniture
• -Sir Walter Raleigh

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Sir Walter Raleigh

• In 1585, Walter Raleigh transported 100 English
  gentleman to settle permanently on Roanoke
  Island, off the coast of North Carolina. In 1586
  Raleigh brought 100 more gentlemen. In 1587, he
  returned to find no one alive on the settlement
  on Roanoke.

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2.The Profit Motive
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2.The Profit Motive

• -Mercantilists

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Mercantilists

• Individuals who lobbied the kings and Queens of
  Europe that their was wealth in the colonies
  through the creation of commercial colonies.
  These colonies would export natural resources in
  short supply in Europe as well as crops exotic to
  European markets.

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2.The Profit Motive

• -Mercantilists
• -Jamestown (1607)

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2.The Profit Motive

• -Mercantilists
• -Jamestown (1607)

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2.The Profit Motive

• -Mercantilists
• -Jamestown (1607)
• -Indentured servants

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Indentured servants

• Indentured servitude was a credit arrangement
  were a ships captain would pay for the cost of
  transportation across the Atlantic ocean in
  exchange for years as a servant.

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3.Involuntary Servants
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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests

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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests
• -African Slaves

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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests
• -African Slaves

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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests
• -African Slaves
• -Middle Passage

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Middle Passage

• The "Middle Passage" was the journey of slave
  trading ships from the west coast of Africa,
  where the slaves were bought or kidnapped,
  transported across the Atlantic to be sold. The
  Middle Passage was the longest, hardest, most
  dangerous, and also most horrific part of the
  journey of the slave ships.

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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests
• -African Slaves
• -Middle Passage

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3.Involuntary Servants

• -Her Majestys Seven Year Guests
• -African Slaves
• -Middle Passage

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven
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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation

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The Reformation

• The reformation began when Martin Luther wrote
  and nailed his 95 theses on the doors of
  Wittenberg Church, criticizing the Catholic
  church, papal abuses and the sale of indulgences
  by church officials.

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther

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Martin Luther

• A catholic monk, he published an nailed his 95
  theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg.
  His theses would start a continental wide
  revolution.

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation

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Protestant Reformation

• The attacks started by Luther against the
  religious order eventually quickly spread
  throughout Europe and touched many aspects of
  life. It then called the protestant reformation.

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation
• -Henry VIII

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation
• -Henry VIII
• -Catherine of Aragon

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation
• -Henry VIII
• -Catherine of Aragon
• -Pilgrims

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Pilgrims

• A groups of radical puritan separatists, they
  first fled to Leiden, Netherlands, and then in
  1621 to America.

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation
• -Henry VIII
• -Catherine of Aragon
• -Pilgrims
• -Mayflower Compact

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Mayflower Compact

• Fearing a complete breakdown of their potential
  colony, the elders of the pilgrims sign a compact
  on board the ship Mayflower. This document
  called for the creation of a government that
  would have the power to create and enact laws and
  ordinances when they landed.

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4.America as a Religious Safe Haven

• -The Reformation
• -Martin Luther
• -Protestant Reformation
• -Henry VIII
• -Catherine of Aragon
• -Pilgrims
• -Mayflower Compact

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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans
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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• -John Winthrop

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John Winthrop

• The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay, he
  ruled the colony as theocratic republic.

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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• -John Winthrop
• -Thomas Hooker

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Thomas Hooker

• Arrived in Massachusetts in 1633, he began to
  challenge the churches of only church members
  having a vote in the community. He was soon
  forced into exile and were he formed the
  Connecticut Colony.

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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• -John Winthrop
• -Thomas Hooker

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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• -John Winthrop
• -Thomas Hooker
• -Roger Williams

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Roger Williams

• Arrived in Massachusetts in 1631, and like
  Hooker began to questions the churches practices.
  He took issue with mandatory church attendance,
  taxes, and the taking of Indian land. He was
  banished into exile and form a colony at
  Providence.

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5.Massachusetts Bay Puritans

• -John Winthrop
• -Thomas Hooker
• -Roger Williams