BELLWORK

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BELLWORK

• Why did people want to leave England and live in
  the new English colonies in America? (3 reasons!)
• What was the Iroquois Alliance?
• What is Beringia?
• What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
• THINKER What do YOU think is the most important
  characteristic of an effective government?

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Columbian Exchange

• Columbian Exchange Exchange of animals, plants,
  cultures, slaves, and diseases between the New
  World and the Old World.
• Traded crops and livestock
• Diseases, especially smallpox, killed 50-90 of
  Native populations.
• First appearance of African slaves

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Old World Native Plants

• Citrus, apple, banana, mango, rice, wheat,
  coffee, and onion.

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New World Native Plants

• Corn, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cocoa, and
  tobacco.

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Smallpox
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Themes in the English Colonies

• Freedom of Religion
• Maryland Catholic
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan
• Pennsylvania Quaker
• Rhode Island 1st to allow choice of religion

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Themes in the English Colonies

• Pursuit of economic freedom, particularly land
  ownership and private property.
• Companies invested in the development of colonies
• Indentured servants could come to America and
  earn land
• Virginia and North Carolina Tobacco
• South Carolina rice

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Themes in the English Colonies

• Colonies created political institutions similar
  to England, but with more protection from the
  government
• 1619 Jamestown elected the first legislative
  assembly
• 1620 Mayflower Compact established a civil
  government
• Englands Declaration of Rights established
  freedom of speech, due process, right to bear
  arms, and forbade cruel and unusual punishment

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CLOSURE

• What were the advantages and disadvantages of the
  Columbian Exchange?
• Explain the three themes in the English colonies.
  

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The Mayflower Compact

• The Mayflower Compact was an important document
  written by Puritans in 1620.
• It became the foundation for other significant
  contracts, like the U.S. Constitution.
• We are now going to discuss the components of the
  Mayflower Compact and its importance to the
  English colonies.

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• In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are
  under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread
  sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God,
  of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
  Defender of the Faith.
• Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and
  advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of
  our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first
  colony in the northern parts of Virginia, (do by
  these presents solemnly and mutually, in the
  presence of God, and one of another, covenant and
  combine our selves together into a civil body
  politic, for our better ordering and preservation
  and furtherance of the ends aforesaid and by
  virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame
  such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,
  constitutions and offices, from time to time, as
  shall be thought most meet and convenient for the
  general good of the Colony, unto which we promise
  all due submission and obedience.) In witness
  whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at
  Cape Cod, the eleventh of November New Style,
  November 21, in the year of the reign of our
  sovereign lord, King James, of England, France,
  and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the
  fifty-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.