Impact of Migration to N. America - Jamestown and Massachusetts (AQA History Migration GCSE)

This lesson is part of the AQA History GCSE ‘Migration, Empires and the People’ module, specifically section 2: Britain and the Atlantic Trade

Lesson begins by looking at why people chose to emigrate from Britain to N. America. It then looks at the English/British settlement of North America, with a case study and comparrison of Jamestown and Massachusetts. Also introduces the ‘companies’ behind this (link to the British East India Company later). Worksheet to fill in included in the PPT. This will require one or both of the text books (blue singular Migration text book, or the larger textbook with all the options in).

Finishes with a 16 mark exam question plan.