Bell Work 8/28
● What was the first English colony in North
America?
● What was the first successful English
colony in North America?
○ What made it successful?
Bell Work 8/29
What is reciprocal impact? mutual, or shared
impact
What was the reciprocal impact of early
European contact with Native Americans in
terms of the following:
-Disease?
-Religion?
-Food?
-Economy?
For Wednesday’s Bell Work:
What group had the best colonial travel ad?
(Can’t vote for your own!)
Group Eval:
-How did you work with your group mates?
Life in the Colonies
Unit 1: Discovery and Settlement
Review:
New England Colonies
Geo/climate:Rocky soil,
cold winters
Economy/Trade:
Shipbuilding, fishing,
lumber, fur trade
Social/Political:
Puritans: strict/disciplined,
church was central part of
life.
John Winthrop
● Led Puritans to Mass.
to establish ideal
Christian community
● First governor of the
Massachusetts Bay
Colony
Anne Hutchinson
● Puritan leader who
angered other Puritans
● challenged Puritan
authority
● claimed people didn’t
need a minister’s
teachings to be spiritual
● banished from Mass.
● later established a colony
in Rhode Island
Roger Williams
● Puritan leader, radical
views against church
● believed in:
○ religious tolerance
○ that religion and govt. should
be separate
○ Native Americans should be
paid for land taken by settlers
● banished from Mass.
● later established a colony in
Rhode Island
Review:
Middle Colonies
Geo/climate: fertile
farmland, warm
summers/cold winters
Economy/Trade: Mix
of farming (grains) and
trade
Social/Political:
Religious Tolerance
William Penn
● Quaker leader
● founded Pennsylvania
colony
○ religious tolerance
Review:
Southern Colonies
Geo/climate: Farmland,
hot summers, mild/short
winters
Economy/Trade: Cash
crops, slave labor
Social/Political:
Religion had little impact,
wealthy had most of the
power/land
The House of Burgesses
● founded in 1619 in
Virginia
● 1st law making body
in English colonies
● representative selfgovernment
Indentured Servants
● system to bring labor to colonies
● in exchange for the passage to the colonies,
servants had to work for a time (usually 5
years) for no pay
● servants became free at the end of indenture
Slavery
● Slaves captured in
Africa, sold and
shipped to colonies
● owned as property
for life
● often born into
slavery (children of
slaves were born
into slavery)