Colonization
Key Colonies St. Augustine Oldest permanent settlement 1565 French Huguenot Spain: Santa Fe in 1610 French: Quebec in 1608 England: Jamestown in 1607
If the Spanish were here first what was so important about Jamestown? English supremacy begins Spain had grown corrupt and lazy (commerce or invention) Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII) Spanish Armada (Sea Dogs)
Walter Raleigh and Roanoke (NC) Supply ships were delayed because of the Armada joint-stock companies-corporations/pooling resources of many entrepreneurs. (Virginia Company of London established the settlement on the Chesapeake Bay at Jamestown in Virginia)
Characteristics of English Colonies Agriculture Slave Labor Economic/Social hierarchies Tobacco
Colonial Regions New England: homogeneous Middle: diverse Southern: scattered