Download WHY COME TO AMERICA?

WHY COME
TO AMERICA?
DANGERS
-SHIP WRECKS
-DISEASE
-STARVATION
-ATTACKS BY NATIVES
-WILD ANIMALS
-FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
MOTIVATING FORCES
• RELIGION (Personal)
• MONEY (Personal)
• EMPIRE (National)
ENGLISH
SETTLERS
IN VA.
ROANOKE ISLAND
The Lost Colony
• Founded for
economic reasons
by the English.
• 1st permanent
English
settlement
JAMESTOWN
LOCATION
GOOD
THINGS
BAD THINGS
BAD
PEOPLE
JAMESTOWN
$$$$$$
HARD WORK
Make 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
Mayflower
PENNSYLVANIA
• settled by
Quakers in
search of
religious
freedom
GEORGIA
settled by debtors from
prisons in England