The document discusses the dangers and motivating factors for coming to America, including shipwrecks, disease, attacks by natives, and religious and economic motivations. It mentions several early English settlements including the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island, Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement which faced difficulties, and settlements in Massachusetts, Plymouth, Pennsylvania and Georgia founded by religious groups seeking freedom or debtors from English prisons.

1. WHY COME TO AMERICA ?

2. DANGERS - SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY NATIVES -WILD ANIMALS -FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

3. MOTIVATING FORCES RELIGION (Personal) MONEY (Personal) EMPIRE (National)

4. ENGLISH SETTLERS IN VA.

6. ROANOKE ISLAND The Lost Colony Founded for economic reasons by the English. 1st permanent English settlement

7. JAMESTOWN LOCATION

8. BAD THINGS

9. JAMESTOWN $$$$$$

10. HARD WORK Make someone else do it.

11. Massachusetts Bay Colony

12. SETTLED BY PURITANS

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

14. STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY

15. The Mayflower

16. PENNSYLVANIA settled by Quakers in search of religious freedom

17. GEORGIA settled by debtors from prisons in England