The British Colonies Jamestown & Plymouth

Early European exploration and colonization resulted in the redistribution of the world's population as millions of people from Europe and Africa voluntarily and involuntarily moved to the new world. Most Europeans wanted to migrate to North America, and they forced Africans to leave their homelands and settle in the Americas. When settling in North America, the Europeans created colonies, which are states under the immediate political control of a state The explorations and settlements of the English in the American colonies and the Spanish in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America often led to violent conflicts with the American Indians, also called Native Americans. The Natives lost their traditional territories and fell victim to diseases carried from Europe. By contrast, French exploration of Canada did not lead to large-scale immigration from France, and relations with native peoples were often more cooperative.HOW DID EXPLORATION CHANGE THE WORLD'S POPULATION? HOW DID FRENCH EXPLORATION DIFFER FROM OTHER COUNTRIES? WHAT WAS THEIR PRIMARY GOAL? Jamestown, established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture, was the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia Company of London was a joint-stock company, which is a company in which investors buy shares to share risk. The major reason for the settlement of Virginia and the other Southern colonies was economic opportunity. The early Virginia "cavaliers" were English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England. Many European immigrants to Virginia came as indentured servants. Indentured servants were people who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a fixed period of time to pay for passage to North America. The Virginia House of Burgesses, was the first elected assembly (representative democracy) in the New World. As an assembly, the purpose of the House of Burgesses was to make laws for colonial Virginia, subject to approval by first the Virginia Company of London and later the King.WHAT WERE THE SETTLERS OF VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTHERN COLONIES ORIGINALLY SEEKING? IN YOUR OWN WORDS, DESCRIBE THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES. Several reasons existed for European settlement in the English colonies. While the Southern Colonies was primarily settled for economic opportunities, the New England colonies were settled to escape religious persecution in Europe. Puritans were members of a seventeenth century English religious group that believed the Anglican Church should purify itself by abandoning much of its ritual and ceremony. The Anglican Church was another name for the Church of England. An extreme group of Puritans, known as Separatists, settled at Plymouth in Massachusetts, 1620. A Separatist was an individual in seventeenth century England who believed that the Anglican Church could never be purified and who called for a total break with it. The Separatists , called Pilgrims, formed a covenant community, which is a religious group that binds itself together by an agreement. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement signed by the male passengers aboard the Mayflower to respect the laws agreed upon for the general good of the colony. In 1629, approximately 20,000 Puritans immigrated to New England and formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The basic unit of the colony was the church congregation, which established a town. The focal point of each town was its meetinghouse, where those living in the town met for church services as well as for town meetings. Through these town meetings the Puritans practiced a form of direct democracy. Direct democracy is a form of government for which people make decisions for themselves, rather than electing a representative.WHAT WAS THE PRIMARY MOTIVATION FOR THE PURITANS (INCLUDING PILGRIMS) TO TRAVEL AND SETTLE IN THE NEW WORLD? IN YOUR OWN WORDS, DESCRIBE THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. WHAT IS A DEMOCRACY? Jamestown and Plymouth VENN Diagram For Each Side Include the Following:DATE FOUNDEDLocationReason for SettlementEconomicsGovernmentAdd in a MISCELLANEOUS DetailFor the CENTER, Who was the mother country for each of these colonies?