WHY COME TO AMERICA?

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WHY COME TO AMERICA?

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DANGERS
-SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY
NATIVES -WILD ANIMALS -FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
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MOTIVATING FORCES

• RELIGION (Personal)
• MONEY (Personal)
• EMPIRE (National)

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ENGLISH SETTLERS IN VA.
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ROANOKE ISLANDThe Lost Colony

• Founded for economic reasons by the English.
• 1st permanent English settlement

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JAMESTOWN LOCATION
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GOOD THINGS
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BAD THINGS
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BAD PEOPLE
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JAMESTOWN
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HARD WORKMake someone else do it.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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SETTLED BY PURITANS
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PLYMOUTH

• settled by separatists from the Church of England
  to avoid persecution

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STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY
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The Mayflower
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PENNSYLVANIA

• settled by Quakers in search of religious freedom

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GEORGIAsettled by debtors from prisons in
England