Theme 4: Dylan DeFatta

AMERICAN COLONIES

• France and Spain began to explore the coast of Florida and Nova Scotia in the sixteenth century.

• The English began to colonized where the French and the Spanish hadn’t explored.

• The English began to settle in Virginia, named after their queen.

AMERICAN COLONIES 6-VIRGINIA

• Ironically it was the poor “gamblers” that crossed the Atlantic hoping for a brighter future.

• The “West Country men” began looking for another conquest after Ireland.

• Their motives were to “Plant Christian religion, to trafficke, to conquer.”

AMERICAN COLONIES 6- VIRGINIA

• Only 5% of England was considered wealthy while the common people took up the other 95%.

• Few commoners even had property.

• 25 percent of the men were all that owned enough property to be allowed to vote.

AMERICAN COLONIES 6- VIRGINIA

AMERICAN COLONIES 6- VIRGINIA

• Population grew from 3 million in the 1500’s, to 4 million by 1600. The population continued to grow to 5 million by 1650.

• 80 percent lived on farms and had livestock.

• Many people were still jobless, and roamed the area looking for work. They were called “sturdy beggars.”

AMERICAN COLONIES 9- Puritans and Indians

• The native Indians had most of the skills the colonist had, seemingly only lacking political skills, for the most part.

• Not all Indians spoke the same language however. They were separated into tribes determined by ethnicity and native language.

• Their settlements could be up to a few hundred people.

AMERICAN COLONIES 9- Puritans and Indians

• Horticulture was the Indians main source of food and nourishment.

• Indian harvests were often more substantial than the English harvests.

• The Indians grew a large variety of vegetables, giving them more of a balanced diet.

AMERICAN COLONIES 9- Puritans and Indians

• Wars between Puritans and Indians ended in fierce death and often execution of the chiefs.

• Puritans would enslave and sell other captured Indians.

• Sometimes they would sell a mother and son as a slave set to be “compassionate” instead of separating them.

AMERICAN COLONIES 9- Puritans and Indians

• Some Indians were able to escape and headed north to New England or New France.

• Puritan officials forced Indians to work and be servants.

• The Puritan population nearly doubled in 30 years, despite the ongoing war.