2. • Between 1580-1620 the English got
the name to the entire mid-Atlantic
coast between Florida and Acadia.
• There was a search for gold mines on
the land and for Spanish treasure
ships by sea.
3. • In 1616 they found what tobacco
• The expansion lifted to a cruel confrontation between the
English colonists and the Algonquain Indians who
defended their lands and culture against the bad people.
4. • The Colonists accepted such leaders so long as it came
along.
• In 1676 Virginia became rebellious when the servants
started ruling planters.
• In both Chesapeake colonies had to share power with
other colonists.
• They lived in a political hierarchy with fourtiers.
5. • The social economic pressures within England that
started the Chesapeake colonies also developed the
colonization of a region to the north named New England.
• They preserved their freedom because they could pay
their own way across the Atlantic.
• Labor was cheap, but land was expensive.
6. • The southern New England Indians possessed
cultural, but lacked political unity.
• The natives highly supplied most of their diet but all
Indians were nothing more than hunters.
• During the 1620’s and 1630’s the puritan settlers did little
to the Indians, putting there eye on things instead on
expanding their towns and farms.
7. • In 1670 three ships from the Barbados had 200 colonists
towards the Ashley River.
• They found Charles Town there.
• Rice was very important and even guns.
• During the 1720’s Carolina and British held on the
southern frontier by founding a new colony south and
west of the Savannah River.
8. • They grew in great power.
• There was the Dutch colony on the Hudson River.
• They were very wealthy.
• During the early 17th century the Netherlands emerged as
an economic and military. Small population of about 1.5
million.
• The Dutch were very smart and ambitious.
