WHY COME TO

AMERICA?

DANGERS-SHIP WRECKS

-DISEASE

-STARVATION

-ATTACKS BY NATIVES

-WILD ANIMALS

-FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

MOTIVATING FORCESMOTIVATING FORCES

•RELIGION (Personal)•MONEY (Personal)•EMPIRE (National)

ENGLISH SETTLERS

IN VA.

ROANOKE ISLANDThe Lost Colony

• Founded for economic reasons by the English.

• 1st permanent English settlement

JAMESTOWN JAMESTOWN LOCATIONLOCATION

GOOD GOOD THINGSTHINGS

BAD BAD THINGSTHINGS

BAD BAD PEOPLEPEOPLE

JAMESTOWN $$$$$$

HARD WORKMake someone else do it.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

SETTLED BY PURITANS

PLYMOUTH•settled by separatists from the Church of England to avoid persecution

STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

The The MayflowerMayflower

PENNSYLVANIA

•settled by Quakers in search of religious freedom

GEORGIAsettled by debtors from

prisons in England