Early English Settlement in North America

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Early English Settlement in North America
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Rise of the Modern English Nation State

• The Tudor Dynasty
• Henry VIII - 1509-1547
• Edward VI - 1547-1553
• Mary I - 1553-1558
• Elizabeth I 558-1603

• The Protestant Reformation in Europe
• Martin Luther
• John Calvin

• The Protestant Reformation in England
• Henry VIIIs break with the Church in Rome

Elizabeths Glorious Reign
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More Internal Developments

• Stuart Dynasty (1603-1688)
• Population Expansion
• Commercial Revolution
• Religious Turmoil
• Missionary Zeal

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English Exploration of North America

• John Cabot, 1490s
• Elizabeths Sea Dogs
• Sir Walter Raleighs Failure at Roanoke, 1584

• Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
• Richard Haykluts Principal Navigations,
• Voyages, and Discoveries of the English
• Nation
• Formation of Joint Stock Companies

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Settlement at Jamestown
The Virginia Company
Disasters with Indians
Environmental Struggles
Captain John Smith to the Rescue
John Rolfe and Tobacco
Towards a Tobacco Colony
John Smith
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Settlements in New England

• Calvinism in England
• Virginia Company and English Separatists
• (Dutch connection)
• Foundation of Plymouth Colony (1620) (Few
  Indians, Little Interaction with Atlantic World)

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More Settlement in New England

• Puritan Colonies

Massachusetts Bay Company
Colony formed in 1629
A City on a Hill
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The City on a Hill

• Political and Economic Structure
• Role of Church and Education

• Demographic Patterns

• Indian Affairs
• Pequot War
• King Phillips War

• Dissenters
• Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson
• More Colonies
• Connecticut, New Hampshire

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