The Great MigrationBy: Ethan Gaiser, Billy Reed, Kayla Cross, Briana Leon, Keegan Olson

Jamestown, Virginia

Sir Francis Drake “Sea Dog” James RiverJamestownJohn Smith60 totalStrugglesTobacco

Reason for Migration

Huge European population explosionLand shortage in EnglandEconomic depressionReligion repression by King Charles ICivil war

John Winthrop

Led 1,000 people to Boston“As a city upon a hill”Elected governor“A Modell of Christian Charity”

City Upon a Hill

15,000-20,000 migrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Under the leadership of John WinthropVery strict Puritan values Religion based society and government

Work Cited1. Bremer, Francis J. "John Winthrop." American Historians, 1607-1865. Ed. Clyde Norman Wilson. Detroit: Gale, 1984.

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