The Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire 

 The First British Settlements

 A Rough Start

 Equality and Exploitation

 Economic Exploitation

Joint-Stock Company - Push/Pull Factors

First Colony - 1607 

Disease - Starvation - Pocahontas 

Tobacco - Virginia - Fail Upwards

Religiously Motivated

England, Holland, Massachusetts - Mayflower - Pilgrims 

First Thanksgiving 

 Puritans - John Winthrop - City Upon A Hill

 House of Burgesses (Virginia) - Mayflower Compact (New England)

Only Male Property Owners 

Maryland 

Acts of Toleration - Protestant Revolt 

High Death Rate - Tobacco 

7 Year Contract - Balloon Payment 

50 Acres To Immigrants 

 Institution Has To Be Created - For Life - Hereditary

Overproduction 

Bacon's Rebellion - Lasting Problems 

Puritan Dominated

 Roger Williams - Anne Hutchinson - Tolerant to Other Religions & Indians

First Written Constitution - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 

Last New England Colony 

Conversion Experience - No Longer Required 

Military Alliance - First Multistate Action 

Metacom Unites Indians - Colonists Win 

Charles II - Late 17th Century 

Tobacco - Rice - Slavery 

New Amsterdam - Taxation With Eventual Representation 

Split From New York 

 Quakers - God Is Within - Equality - Friends

Buffer State - Debtors Prison - Poorest Colony  

Colonies Exist to Enrich Mother Country 

Combat Smuggling - Control Trade - Mixed Results and Enforcement 

Combine Colonies - Remove Representation - Resentment 

50% of Virginia - 66% of North Carolina 

Reduced Migration - Dependable Workforce - Cheap Labor 

Children of Slaves - No Interracial Marriage - Integral to Society 

Raw Goods - Manufactured Goods - Slaves 

 Male Property Owners Only

 The Holy Experiment - Attempted Utopia