Theme 4 pt 2 the english in north america

Theme 4 part 2American Colonies

English Colonies of North America

By Melissa Skarnas

American Colonies 8: New England

Captain John Smith explored the coast in 1614 and named it New England saying the climate and soil was like that of home

First Puritan emigrants were known as the Pilgrims, crossing over on the Mayflower in 1620, and founding the town of Plymouth, MA

In 1630, what became known as the “Great Migration” began – a larger emigration of Puritans under the leadership of a lawyer, John Winthrop


The Puritans that Winthrop brought over, settled in Boston and established a radical government in which the men elected the governor, deputy governor, and legislature

From the coastal towns, the colonist later expanded further inland during 1630's and 1640's creating new colonies

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were the 4 colonies of New England


New England was inhabited primarily by English who could pay their own way across the Atlantic – more of a “middle class”

Colder, smaller but healthier environment for the Puritans who were not afraid to work the land and were able to have large pieces of land

Puritans worked the land themselves, building and farming on their properties


Land was granted to a group of men who banded together to found a town in New England

Legislature defined town boundaries but let each corporation of men allocate the land for farms, church, school and a village center

Colonists had to cut clearings, build fences, build homes and barns and plant and plow fields by hand, relying on family labor

Most farmers had complete ownership of their land unlike in England where land was leased

American Colonies 11: Carolina

3 ships from Barbados, carrying 200 colonists arrived in Charles Town in 1670

Charles Town (later modified to Charleston) was named in honor of King Charles II

The English claim to the area, was to signify it's rising power over that of the weakening Spanish power, which had laid claim to that coast


The Carolinas attracted mostly farmers and artisans

At least a third of the earlier Carolinians started as indentured servants from either England or Barbados

If a male servant survived his term, he received his own land, barrel of maize, ax and hoe, and a set of clothes as part of the “Freedom dues”


A new colony was founded in the 1720's by British imperialists and Carolinian officials which they named Georgia in honour of King George II

90% of the colony's funding came from Parliament which made Georgia the first colony actually funded by British taxpayers

The Georgia Trustees freely transported and provided farms to charity colonists from 1733-1742


Georgia Trustees preferred to have more small farms worked by free families rather than the larger plantations that depended on slaves

Georgia was the first and only British colony to reject the slave system that was so fundamental in the rest of the British colonies

The Trustees tried to prohibit rum-drinking saying it was a hard work and morals, but the colonists resented this and the ban was later lifted

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Theme 4 pt 2 the english in north america