Chapter 2 APUSH

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Chapter 2 APUSH

• The Planting of English America

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Englands Exploration

• Catholic/Protestant Rivalry
• Queen Elizabeth Is Influence
• Spread Protestant religion
• Seize Spanish ships and raid their settlements
• Sir Francis Drake- Circumnavigated the globe and
  stole from the Spanish.
• Sir Walter Raleigh- Lost colony of Roanoke Island
• Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Marks the
  beginning of the downturn for the Spanish Empire

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Why Now for England?

• Growing population between 1550 and 1600.
• Economic depression in the wool trade in the late
  1500s. (Large populations of Puritans impacted by
  this)
• Only the oldest sons of wealthy landowners could
  inherit estates, so younger sons went in search
  of fortune.
• Law of primogeniture

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Jamestown

• Virginia Company receives charter from James I
  for a New World settlement.
• Was supposed to only be for a few years to turn a
  quick profit (Joint-stock company)
• Charter of the Virginia Company a very important
  document.
• Guarantees to overseas British settlers the same
  rights as if they were at home

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Jamestown

• John Smith (1608)- He who shall not work shall
  not eat
• Starving time- Winter 1609-10
• Lord De La Warr takes over in 1610
• Harsh ruler that took an aggressive stance
  against the Native Americans.

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Conflicts with the Natives

• First Anglo-Powhatan War
• Lord De La Warr raids villages and burns houses
  in a more aggressive stance against the Native
  Americans
• Ends in 1614 with the marriage of Pocahontas and
  John Rolfe
• 1622- Indian attacks kill 347 settlers, including
  Rolfe
• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644)
• Win by the Virginians ends with peace treaty in
  1646 that banishes Indians from their lands and
  separates them from white settlers.

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Important Developments

• Cultivation of tobacco- John Rolfe
• 1619- first Africans brought by the Dutch and
  sold to colonists in Virginia
• House of Burgesses created in 1619- birth of
  representative self-government
• By 1625, population of Virginia is only around
  1,200.