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Write the following questions in your notebook. Leave room for the answers. By the end of class, you will be able to answer all of the following questions: Describe the Protestant Reformation. What happened to the Spanish Armada in 1588?

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Warm Up

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  1. Write the following questions in your notebook. Leave room for the answers. By the end of class, you will be able to answer all of the following questions: • Describe the Protestant Reformation. • What happened to the Spanish Armada in 1588? • What would finding the Northwest Passage have allowed sailors to do? Who searched for it? • Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke? • The French: Where did they settle? • The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did they settle? Warm Up

  2. Pages 52-57 in textbook 2-4 The Race for Empires

  3. What was the Protestant Reformation?

  4. EVENTS IN EUROPE Protestant Reformation • 1517 (Germany) Martin Luther • Publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church • Church too wealthy and abused its power • Religious movement began in small German towns but quickly spread to most of Europe • Create political disputes • Protestants – reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church’s practices • Religion should be simple

  5. Printing press spread Reformations ideas • Bible’s, essays • Allowed independent study • Conflict between Catholics and Protestants • Civil war • 1500s French Catholics vs. French Huguenots (protestant) = Huguenots emigrated to Americas • Religious freedom • 1534 Church of England created by Henry the VIII • Challenged Popes authority • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ3AFZXXX-k

  6. Describe the Protestant Reformation. QUESTION 1

  7. What happened to the Spanish Armada in 1588?

  8. Spain and England Go to War • 1500s King Philip II of Spain led Catholic Reformation in response to the Protestant Reformation • Goal: Drive the Protestants out of England • Sea Dogs = English sailors led by Sir Francis Drake • Spanish Armada – huge fleet of warships meant to end English plans

  9. Invade England Overthrow Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican Church • 1588 Smaller English fleet defeated the Armada • Shocked Spain • Spain’s economy is in trouble • Ends Spain’s dominance of the sea

  10. What happened to the Spanish Armada in 1588? QUESTION 2

  11. What would finding the Northwest Passage have allowed sailors to do? Who searched for it?

  12. Search for a Northwest Passage • Northwest Passage – water route through NA that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific • John Cabot – Sailed for England (1497-1498) • Basis for the English American colonies • Giovanni da Verrazano – 1524 (Italy) • Coasts of North Carolina to Maine

  13. Jacques Cartier (France) • St. Lawrence River • Land claimed for France • Henry Hudson (England) 1609 • Found NY • 1st trip he sailed for the Dutch and the 2nd for the English • Hudson Bay

  14. QUESTION 3 • What would finding the Northwest Passage have allowed sailors to do? Who searched for it?

  15. Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke?

  16. EUROPEAN PRESENCE • Spain and Portugal dominated Americas early • England, France, and the Dutch also explored North America

  17. English Presence in the New World • The English wanted to try to set up a permanent settlement in the new world in the 1500s • Sir Walter Raleigh • Received a charter from the Queen • WHAT IS A CHARTER? • A document giving permission to create a settlement colony • 1584 expedition landed in present day Virginia and North Carolina

  18. Roanoke Island founded in NC in 1585 • Hard life – fought with Native Americans, trouble finding and growing food • 1 year later returned to England • John White resettled in 1587, returned to England for supplies but war with Spain prevented him from returning for 3 years. When he did colony was deserted • “lost colony”

  19. Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke? QUESTION 4

  20. The French: Where did they settle? freNCH PRESENCE IN THE NEW WORLD

  21. French Presence in the New World • 1stNorth American settlement was Florida (1564) • Destroyed by Spanish • Settled Present Day Canada • Samuel de Chaplain • Followed Cartier • 1608 colony on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec for fur trade

  22. 1600s New France • Fur traders, explorers, missionaries • Mississippi River – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette (1673) • Mississippi Valley claimed for France called Louisiana • 1700s New Outposts • Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans • 12000 settlers • Allied with Native Americans because of Fur Trades

  23. The French: Where did they settle? QUESTION 5

  24. The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did they settle? DUTCH and SWEDISH PRESENCE IN THE NEW WORLD

  25. Dutch Presence in the New World • Dutch were searching for trade • Claimed the land between the Delaware River and the Hudson River = New Netherlands • 1624Dutch West India Company • Bought Manhattan Island for $24 • New Amsterdam • Religious freedom Swedish Presence in the New World • New Sweden in the same area along the Delaware River – later became part of New Netherlands

  26. The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did they settle? QUESTION 6

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