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Chapter 2 APUSH . The Planting of English America. England’s Exploration. Catholic/Protestant Rivalry Queen Elizabeth I’s Influence Spread Protestant religion Seize Spanish ships and raid their settlements Sir Francis Drake- Circumnavigated the globe and stole from the Spanish.
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Chapter 2 APUSH • The Planting of English America
England’s Exploration • Catholic/Protestant Rivalry • Queen Elizabeth I’s 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
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
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
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.
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.
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.