• Technology advances
• Need for resources
• Increased wealth
• New Route to Asia
• Three G's - God, Gold, Glory

Arrival of Columbus

and the

Columbian Exchange

• World wide exchange of goods (food, medicine,government, arts,  ,animals,language,technology,tools)
• Europeans use tobacco and potatos
• Exchange of ideas between Native Americans and Europeans
• Founding of the Jamestown colony
• Led to spread of disease to the Native Americans

• Europeans establish colonies in North America
• Millions of Native Americans die from diseases
• Enslaved Africans arrive in the Americas
• Foods from the Americas are introduced in Eurpoe

• Plymouth (Massachusetts)
• Rhode Island
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• Maryland
• Carolinas

• rocky soil
• short growing season (corn, squash)
• fishing
• trade
• shipbuilding
• close knit communities

• good rivers for travel
• large farms
• moderate growing season
• trade
• quaker communities
• secure religious freedom

• few cities
• tidewater areas
• plantations
• long growing season
• farmed tobacco, rice, indigo
• farming workers led to African Slaves - SLAVERY

• See religions freedom (england)

• Rules established by pilgrims for their new settlement before going ashore
• Men agreed to consult one another about laws for the colony and promosed to work together to make the colony succeed

• English Colony in Virginia
• Difficult start - workers wanted to look for gold and did not farm
• starvation and recovery - John Smith saved the colony by forcing the colonists to work if they want to eat
• Tobacco was the cash crop that helped Jamesown surninv

• in Virginia
• important step in the development of democracy in colonial America because it began the first representative government in America