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1. The Planting of English America 1500-1733 Pageant Chapter 2

2. 1a. England’s Imperial Stirrings • The Spanish were at Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610 • The French were in Quebec, Canada in 1608 • The English were in Jamestown, VA in 1607

3. Europe In North America

4. 1a. England’s Imperial Stirrings • Queen Elizabeth I – one of England’s greatest rulers – 1558 - 1603 • Competing with Spain for world domination • Dispatches explorers to set up colonies • Francis Drake – a “pirate” who seized and robbed Spanish treasure ships. • Sir Walter Raleigh – tries to set up a colony in Roanoke (North Carolina) but fails in 1585 • After winning a war against Spain and defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588, England is the supreme world power • It restarts its mission to build colonies.

5. Queen Elizabeth I of England1558 - 1603

6. Roanoke – The Failed Colony1585

7. Great Britain in Europe

8. 1b. The Essential Preconditions for English Colonization • 1) England’s victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 ensured it’s naval dominance of the world. • 2) Population growth • 3) Unemployment and a thirst for adventure, money, and religious freedom • 4) Joint stock companies

9. 2a., 2b. Virginia • Joint Stock Company – a company formed by investors who pool their money together to make a profit. • JSCs were formed to make profits for the investors • The VA Company Charter – A very important document in US History because it extended English rights to the overseas settlers.

10. The Virginia Company

11. 2c. Virginia • Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) • The Powhatan try one last time to dislodge the Virginians but failed • A treaty was drawn up in 1646, banishing the Powhatan from their lands and removed them from white areas of settlement • The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War was the reservation system for Native Americans.

12. 2d. Virginia • Positive effects of European arrival: • Horses and firearms introduced to Native population • Many migrated to the Great Plains and became successful nomadic hunters

13. Native American Migration to the Great Plains

14. 2d. Virginia • Negative effects of European arrival: • Diseases extinguished entire cultures • European trade often led to competition and infighting among the Natives

15. 2e. Virginia • Negative consequences of Virginia’s reliance on tobacco • Ruined soil due to overplanting • Virginia’s well-being was dependent on whether the price was up or down and it demanded labor constantly

16. Tobacco Farming

17. Virginia, 2f. • The House of Burgesses, 1619 • IMPORTANT – allowed limited self government in Virginia • These “mini-parliaments” eventually would begin to see themselves and independent and separate from the British government.

18. The House of Burgesses (Re-enacted)

19. 3a. Maryland and the Southern Colonies • 1) A Catholic settlement; founded by Lord Baltimore in 1634 • 2) Allowed freedom of worship, but only to those who accepted the divinity of Jesus

20. Maryland

21. 3b. Maryland and the Southern Colonies • Sugar producing plantations worked by African Americans were started in the Carolina colonies in 1670 • Slaves actually outnumbered their captors 4 to 1

22. Sugar Plantation

23. 3c. Maryland and the Southern Colonies • 1) Slaves had no legal rights under their masters • 2) A feeling of racial and civil superiority was used to justify enslaving Africans

24. 3d. Maryland and the Southern Colonies • Georgia – 1733; founded as a “buffer colony” to protect the English colonies from Spain in Florida

25. The Southern Colonies

26. 3e. Maryland and the Southern Colonies • 1) They exported commercial agricultural products, notably rice and tobacco • 2) With the exception of North Carolina, all the southern colonies had a strong aristocratic atmosphere • 3) The Church of England was the most prominent faith