Unit 1 - From New World To Revolution Day 3– The English Colonies.

Unit 1 - From New World To Revolution

Day 3– The English Colonies

Warm Up – Walk and Talk

#1) BE SURE TO GRAB YOUR WARM-UP SHEET

#2) Everybody will be getting a slip of paper with a quote from De La Casas

#3) You will need to walk around the classroom and find multiple different quotes.

#4) Create a free response on De La Casas and his accounts

The Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

The English Arrive - 1st Theme – Restless People

Primogeniture (elders benefit)

Enclosure Acts /Overcrowding

Unemployment

Religious Oppression

The English Arrive – 2nd Theme – Political Opportunity

Spanish Wealth and Control inspires

1588 Spanish Armada defeated (opens Atlantic)

Religious Institutions and Government unrest

3 Types of Colonies

Corporate (Joint Stock) – Investment Centered

Royal Colonies – charter from the king under his control

Proprietary – charter from king governed by individuals

****all will eventually become royally****

Settling North America

1st Settlement – Roanoke – Sir Walter Raleigh 1585 Disappeared without

warning

Virginia Company (Joint Stock Company)– Jamestown – John Smith 1607

Virginia - Political

1619 House of Burgesses - 1st elected assembly in N.A.

***Only landowners were elected***

By 1624 Jamestown/VA becomes a royal colony

Virginia - Economic

Seeking Gold

1609-1610 “starving time” leads to shift

John Rolfe makes tobacco GOLD

Turn and Talk -Tobacco Prices: 1618-1710

Turn and Talk -Tobacco Prices: 1618-1710

Why did tobacco prices decline so precipitously?

Virginia - Social

Culture Clash between English and Natives

Powhatan Indians – Positive relationships due to Pocahontas /Rolfe

Virginia - Social

Attempts at positive relationships destroyed by tobacco (land) 1st Powhatan War –

1622 2nd - 1644

Tobacco leads to 2 labor force issues Indentured Servitude

(Headright System) Slavery (1619)

What do you see?

Powhatan fall

The 3 Ds:

Disease

Disorganization

Disposability

Today’s Activity

Small Group Rotations Create Free-Form Picture/Word Map that

categorizes text information Colony details (settlement, etc) Political Aspects Social Aspects Economic Aspects

Divide tasking in group; be prepared to present to class

Classmates will take Cornell Notes on presentations

Key ideas to make sure you now!!!

Maryland: Lord Baltimore, Catholic Haven,1633 Act of Toleration

West Indies: Sugar Plantation (no food), African Slaves, Barbados Slave Codes

Carolinas: Restoration Colonies, Slavery transfer from W. Indies (S.C), Rice and Indigo

Georgia: Buffer state between Spanish FL, Founded by Oglethrope, prisoners haven, last of 13 colonies

Questions to Answer

CHESAPEAKE QUESTIONS DUE IN CLASS 9/24DIRECTIONS: There are 10 questions total on the next

two slides.

On separate sheets of paper, answer the following questions. I expect detailed answers with proof from the Powerpoint, book, and previous historical knowledge.

1) What were the three D’s which finally led to Powhatan’s fall? What would you have done if you were in Powhatan’s position?

2) How did Native life change with the arrival of the English?

3) Describe the Importance AND potential implications of Virginia’s cash crop? Positives and negatives?

4) Describe key points of Maryland. Name at least 5.

5) Highlight developments of Sugar in the West Indies

Remember 6-10 on the next slide!

Questions to Answer

6) To what extent did the Civil War in England affect colonization in the New World?

7) Describe and analyze the development of the Carolinas…founding? Slaves? Crops? Religion?

8) What was the relationship between colonials in the Carolinas and the natives?

9) The purpose of Georgia? Its highlights in foundation? Crops and materials for import/export?

10) Compare the plantation colonies? Religion? System of labor? Other factors?