ENGLISH COLONIZATION ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What political economic religious

ENGLISH COLONIZATION

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: • What political, economic, religious, and social reasons led to the establishment of the thirteen English colonies? • Which historic documents and colonial practices contributed to the growth of representative government? • What differences existed between the main regions of the thirteen colonies? • What was life like in colonial America? • What factors contributed to religious freedom in the thirteen colonies?

RELIGION WAS A MAJOR SOURCE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN EUROPEAN NATIONS • Until the 16 th century, the Roman Catholic Church was the Christian church. • After the Reformation, some nations adopted forms of Christianity that were different from the Catholic tradition • Some nations adopted a Protestant form of Christianity • England was one such nation • Spain remained Catholic, and the relationship between Spain and England became increasingly worse

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ENGLAND IN AMERICA • English made several failed attempts to colonize the New World • 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert – Newfoundland • 1585 Roanoke (part 1) • 1587 Roanoke (part 2)

ENGLAND IN AMERICA • JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • Who paid for it? • How did it survive? • How did the settlers govern themselves?

JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • Who paid for it? • Joint-stock company: a company in which wealthy people put their money together to start a business/colony hoping that the colony will make them more money • King James of England gave a charter to the Virginia Company to form a colony

JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • How did it survive? • The settlers did not find gold, but instead faced disease and hunger • The original leader, John Smith, forced everyone to work for their food and received help and food from the Powhatan natives • When he returned to England, the colony struggled, facing a very difficult winter called the “starving time”

JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • How did it survive? • The colonists of Jamestown wanted to abandon their colony and return home, but supplies arrived from England • The colony finally figured out a resource that would make them money and make money for the Virginia Company: tobacco • Because of this cash crop, the colony not only survived, but thrived.

JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • How did it survive?

JAMESTOWN 1607 CE • How did the settlers govern themselves? • The Virginia Company gave the colonists the right to govern themselves • In 1619, male colonists elected members of the colony to be lawmaking representatives, creating the HOUSE OF BURGESSES

HOUSE OF BURGESSES • The first legislative body of elected representatives in North America