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Louisiana Purchase

Who: Thomas Jefferson (Robert Livingston & James

Monroe), United States, France What: United States bought the Louisiana territory

for $15 million; doubles the size of the United States Where: Louisiana (Mississippi River through the

Great Plains) When: October 20, 1803 (Jefferson’s presidency) Why: Jefferson wanted to protect American trade

routes – New Orleans, France needed money for military supplies (war with Great Britain); Lewis and Clark exploration, route to the Pacific Ocean, contact with Native Americans

Louisiana Purchase

Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian

explorers(who) Participated in a race to claim land in America (what) Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where) 1400-1600’s (when) Competition between nations – global leadership

(why)Desire for wealth (why)Spread of Christianity (why)

Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)

Exploration

Why not stick with what we know and Why not stick with what we know and just be satisfied?just be satisfied?

To populate an areaTo populate an area

Dutch English French Spanish Scandinavian

Early European Exploration

Why Explore?

Causes Competition

between nations Desire for wealth Spread of

Christianity

Effects Destruction of Native

American empires French and Indian War Disease

Columbian Exchange Good brought from Europe;

goods brought back from the Americas

Colonies in America established

British Exploration (why) and British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)Colonization (where)

Map Day

See Colonial America packet: p. 4

Search for wealth (wealth=power)

Mercantilism Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with few

resources, America few people with great resources) Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for manufacturing

turn them into finished goods and resell them to colonies Political Strength

Becoming/maintaining world power status Religious freedom

Pilgrims/Puritans Catholicism

Why the British explored…

Brand new world…

No “colonial” traditions Whose did they follow then?

No government/authority physically present What happens when the King of England isn’t

there to tell colonists what to do?

Life in the colonies?

What/who was there as the colonists

landed? Houses? Businesses? Roads? People?

Life in the colonies

How did colonists get houses?

Businesses? Had to bring people with these skills to

the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)

Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow

Life in the colonies

What did they find when they got there?

What were they able to establish?13 colonies

Diverse lifestyles

Colonists’ Toolbox

Who (what country) founded the

original thirteen colonies? What are the three regions that make

up the original thirteen colonies? What were the strengths/weaknesses

of each of the colonial regions? What did each of the regional colonies

provide for Mother England?

British Colonies

Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

British Colonies

Long growing season Fertile, vacant land Sun Freedom of religion (Maryland)

What did the South offer to Great Britain?

What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

First (successful) British settlement

Jamestown, Virginia (1606) “deadly” experience (initially)

Sent money, no experience and limited skill

What is the formula for success in an early settlement? = diverse population (skills)

Southern Colonies

Among the diverse population of the southern

colonies were… Farmers Bankers Catholics

Maryland – first American colony established for “religious freedom”

Toleration Act of 1649 Plantation owners (rich) Slaves

Southern Colonies

Plantations (really big farms)

Tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, pigs, corn Required labor: indentured servants (not

slaves) As the demand for cash crops (cotton,

tobacco) increased, what happens to the demand for labor/workers?

Therefore, slave trade developed By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor

on southern plantations

Economy of southern colonies

Was everyone in the south a

wealthy plantation owner?

Did everyone have slaves?

Economy of southern colonies

Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island

British Exploration

Ports for trading companies Timber Whale oil Fisheries Religious freedom (reformation)

What did the New England colonies offer

Great Britain?

What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

What is the climate/environment like

in New England? Little demand for farm labor/slaves

Subsistence/community farming

Creating demand for skilled professionals

New England Economy

Trade

Raw materials Whale oil, fish, timber/lumber

Natural resources (shipped to GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies Mercantilism

New England Economy

Diversity among colonists

Trades/skills Merchants, fishermen, ship builders,

lumberjacks, blacksmiths, printers, weavers

Wealth Education/languages Religion

New England Community

Who used to be the colonists’

government?

Where was the King now?

New England Community

In an attempt to avoid chaos and

inequality…

Mayflower - 1620 Mayflower Compact

Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)

Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)

New England Community

First to establish local government that included…

Court system Representative government (elections)

Do we have these things today?

New England Community

Religion and government closely tied together

What makes that different from today’s US society? Separation of Church and State

Government leaders were also church leaders Where do you think the government leaders

found their voters/followers?

New England Community

Religious escape (1620-1640) Puritans

Wanting to purify the Church of England Boston, Massachusetts

Pilgrims Wanting to separate from the Church of

England Plymouth, Massachusetts

Great Migration

New England Community

If we are going to survive as a

community, we must… Be family oriented Have women and children involved Maintain faith in religion Provide education

Why is this a need? Read what?

New England Community

John Harvard – 1636

Boston, Massachusetts William and Mary College –

1693 Virginia

Education

New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native

Americans

Will you teach us how to grow crops?

Absolutely, in exchange for resources

and finished goods.

Exchange of information,

techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)

Celebration of successful harvest Survival of the new colony

Thanksgiving

Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,

Rhode Island Middle Colonies

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

British Exploration

Blend of New England and Southern colonies Staple crops

Wheat, barley, oats (grains) Iron and wood Trade Indentured servants/slaves

What did the Middle colonies offer to Great

Britain?

What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

William Penn

1681 granted a charter by King Charles II

Establish a safe home for Quakers

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania

Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance

Quakers

Penn limited his own power

By creating an elected assembly (must vote representatives into government)

Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love(Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)

Largest colonial city - 1760

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania