English Colonies to American Independence “No Taxation without representation”

On the road to “America”…Focus Questions:

• What motivated English Colonization?

• To what extent does geography play in determining the type of economy and government of each American Colony?

• What important ideas and major events led to the American Revolution?

Non- English European Colonies (Recap)• Spain:•Mexico, Central America, and South America•Western US Present day Texas, New Mexico, California• Florida• They established “presidios” or forts within Mission Communities

• French (The Northwest Passage / “New France”)•Canada Nova Scotia and St. Lawrence River• Fishing and Fur trading•1690’s established Louisiana along the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico

English Colonies• Roanoke Colony •Sir Walter Raleigh… Becomes the Lost Colony

• Jamestown 1607• In Virginia founded by the Virginia Company and led by John Smith.•First permanent settlement in the North America•Survived by growing Tobacco as a “cash crop”•The House Of Burgesses• First Legislature in the New World• Partnered with the Royal Governor to

govern the colony.

New England Colonies

•The Puritans 1620•“Model Moral (Religious) Communities”•The Mayflower Compact•Provided the framework for colonial “Self-government”•What are the differences between Jamestown and Plymouth?

The New England Colonies• Comprised of Four separate colonies

by 1700.•Massachusetts•Rhode Island•Connecticut•New Hampshire

• Focus: Religious Freedoms and toleration

Middle and Southern Colonies• New York• New Jersey• Delaware• Pennsylvania• Maryland• Virginia• North Carolina• South Carolina• Georgia

• Middle Colonies

focused on Trade, Sea Ports, and Shipping Commerce. • Southern Colonies

focused on Agriculture and Cattle Farms•Because of Agriculture, the Atlantic Slave Trade begins.