Notes

Reasons for Settlement

After 1730 settlers began to come to the frontier – (area just beyond settlement) Why?

• Beauty and adventure
• Hedge against French (frogs)
• Middle colonies- filling up. (Pa. Md. Ny. Nj. De.) good land in these colonies already taken.
• Va.- land policies changed- speculators given 1,000 acres (about the size of football field minus the endzones) for each family setteled.
• Under policy Va. Settlers couldn't leave. So most came from other colonies.
• Of German, Scots Irish, English
• Result- denominations- page 310- list 12 examples.

Summary- 3-2-1

• 3 reasons for frontier settlement
• 2 groups that came
• 1- sentence explaination why some many denominations existed on the frontier.