Colonization and the 13 Colonies

Slide 1

• 1500s Europeans explored North America to find North west passage to Asia
• left Europe to escape religious persecution
• first English colony Jamestown Virginia 1607
• first representative government in the American colonies Virginia House of Burgesses
• 1620 Mayflower Compact = provide self government in pilgrims New Plymouth colony
• New France = lived and worked in the woods — trading knives, kettles, cloth, ect

Slide 2

• Jamestown = Atlantic Coast
• ( mayflower compact )
• shorter route to Asia , religious freedom
• Quakers pennyslavania = religious tolerance
• lumber dried fish rum = New England States
• Geography and Climate = variety of products
• New France = fishing and fur trading
• “the Virginia house of Burgesses led to development of democracy in colonial America because it created a representative for mom of government”