Theme 4: Dylan DeFatta

AMERICAN COLONIES

• France and Spain began to explore the coast of Florida and Nova Scotia in the sixteenth century.

• The English began to colonized where the French and the Spanish hadn’t explored.

• The English began to settle in Virginia, named after their queen.

AMERICAN COLONIES 6-VIRGINIA

• Ironically it was the poor “gamblers” that crossed the Atlantic hoping for a brighter future.

• The “West Country men” began looking for another conquest after Ireland.

• Their motives were to “Plant Christian religion, to trafficke, to conquer.”

AMERICAN COLONIES 6- VIRGINIA

• Only 5% of England was considered wealthy while the common people took up the other 95%.

AMERICAN COLONIES 6- VIRGINIA