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North American Colonies

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Objectives

Students will categorize and arrange information

about the colonies in North America in a map
format.

RH.11-12.3 Analyze a complex set of ideas or

sequence of events and explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events interact and
develop over the course of the text.

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Warm Up

How do you think the colonization of North

America will be different from Latin America?

Different farming systems, spread Christianity

differently, different ways of making money

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Agenda

North American Colonies Guided Notes

To be turned in!

Outline Map for Homework (pg 123 in your book)

Exit Ticket Video

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Terms and People

New France French possession in present-day

Canada from the 1500s to 1763

revenue income

Pilgrims English Protestants who rejected the

Church of England

compact an agreement among people

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Terms and People (continued)

French and Indian War a war between

France and England that erupted in 1754 in
North America and ended in 1763

Treaty of Paris the agreement that officially

ended the French and Indian War as well as
other fighting between France and England, and
ensured British dominance in North America

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How did European struggles for power

shape the North American continent?
France and England followed Spain in settling
North America. Though their hopes for gold or
passage to Asia were not met, they did turn
profits in their new domains.
By 1700, the two nations controlled vast parts
of North America. Their colonies were very
different from those in Spanish America.

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France claimed vast amounts of land in North

America during the 1500s.
The nation called these claims New France.
Jacques Cartier explored the coastline in 1534 and
discovered the St. Lawrence River.
French missionaries followed the explorers,
attempting with little success to convert Native
Americans to Christianity.

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Despite large French land claims and wide

exploration, settlement was slow.

The first permanent

French settlement
was not founded until
1608.

Farming was hard in

the cold Canadian
climate, so many
settlers became fur
trappers and traders.

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Louis XIV wanted to increase revenues from

New France in the 1600s.
He sent more settlers and soldiers to North America.
However, he forbade Protestants from settling in
New France.
Partly as a result, the population of New France was
smaller than that of the growing English colonies.

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England established colonies along the Atlantic

seaboard in the 1600s.

The English founded their first permanent colony

at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

The settlement was organized by an English

company hoping to gain wealth from the New
World.

Many early settlers died of starvation. Jamestown

began to thrive once the colonists started growing
and exporting tobacco.

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The Pilgrims arrived in present-day

Massachusetts in 1620.
They were English Protestants who rejected the
Church of England.
Seeking religious freedom, they set sail from
Plymouth, England, in the Mayflower.

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While still on their ship, the Pilgrims signed

the Mayflower Compact.
This compact, or
agreement, set
guidelines for
governing the
new colony.
The Mayflower
Compact was an
important step
toward selfgovernment.

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In time, a new wave of

English Protestants
arrived and founded
the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.

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The English established additional colonies

in the 1600s and 1700s, for many reasons.
Virginia
New York

Commercial ventures
organized for profit

Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Maryland

Havens for persecuted

religious groups

Georgia
South Carolina

Gifts from English kings

to loyal supporters

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English
colonists
learned
to create
wealth by
using native
resources.

People in New England built

fishing, timber, and
shipbuilding industries.

Those in the middle colonies

grew grain.

Settlers in the South grew cash

crops such as rice and tobacco
and developed a plantation
economy.

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English colonists had a large degree of

self-government.

This grew out of English tradition in which both

Parliament and the rights of citizens tempered the
power of the king.

Colonists expected the same rights as freeborn

English citizens.

Each colony had its own representative assembly

that advised the royal governor appointed by the
king.

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European powers in North America began

to fight in the 1600s to protect their
interestsand to expand them.

The two main

rivals were France
and England.

The French and

Indian War erupted
between them in 1754.

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The French and Indian War was part of a

worldwide conflict known as the Seven Years
War.

France won several victories early on.

The tide turned in 1759 when British troops

captured Quebec, the capital of New France.

In 1763, the Treaty of Paris officially ended

the war and established British dominance in
North America.

However, France regained sugar-producing islands

in the Caribbean and slave-trading outposts in
Africa that the British had seized during the war.