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The Planting of English America From Henry VIII to the First Colonists
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Henry VIII Defender of the Faith, 1521, excommunicated Catherine of Aragon (wife) Mary (daughter) – 1 st woman heir Divorced – no son Protestant Reformation Anne Boleyn (next wife) Elizabeth (daughter) Beheaded – for no son Jane Seymour Edward - son Died (birth complications)
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Queen Elizabeth Reigned 1558-1603 Protestantism restored Thirty-nine Articles Conflict with Philip II English “sea dogs” (privateers) Protestantism Refused marriage
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“Don’t Touch my Golden Hind.” Sir Francis Drake Golden Hind 1577-1580 California
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Spanish Armada 1588 Sir Francis Drake Sir John Hawkins “Protestant Winds” Beginning of English naval superiority
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Gilbert and Raleigh Humphrey Gilbert 1583 Newfoundland Charter Walter Raleigh 1584 – Roanoke, no go “Virginia”
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Roanoke Island 1587 114 Settlers Virginia Dare John White (grandpa) returned for supplies Returned 1590 to no one “Cro” and “Croatoan” on two trees
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Reasons for Colonization Economic Primogeniture Enclosure movement Unemployment Joint-stock Company Mercantilism – Spanish peace Religious Spread Protestantism Puritans and Separatists Catholics & Quakers
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James I Reigned 1603-1625 “Divine Right of Kings” 1605 - Gunpowder Plot King James Version (KJV) Gave Virginia Co. Charter to settle Virginia Puritans - Calvinists
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Jamestown Virginia Company of London Entrepreneurs – find gold or no more support, not frontiersman Charter from King James 1607 Godspeed Discovery Sarah Constant
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Jamestown – Problems and Salvation Drought Disease Bad climate Laziness Starving Time (1609-1610) John Smith Pocahontas Tobacco – John Rolfe
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John SmithLord De La Warr
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What was the primary purpose of the English settlement of Jamestown, and how successful were the colonists in achieving that goal in the first twenty years?
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Development of Jamestown John Rolfe Tobacco – made it “sweeter” (1612) Headright system Changes Women Indentured servants Slaves - 1619 Representative Government
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Powhatan – Two Wars, final defeat, 1644 Pocahontas – Saved John White, Married John Rolfe, moved to England
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Colonists and Native Americans Clash First Anglo-Powhatan War John Rolfe and Pocahontas are married First bi-racial couple in America Second Anglo-Powhatan War 1644 Last attempt to drive out colonists, drove out N.A.
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Development of Jamestown Royal Colony 1624 – “Seminary of Sedition” 1 st Representative Government - House of Burgesses - 1619
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In what ways did the relationship between whites and Native Americans in Virginia establish the pattern for later relations across North America?
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Maryland Cecil Calvert, 2 nd Lord Baltimore 11633 - Founds colony Named after Queen Henrietta Maria Set up as a haven for persecuted Catholics Quickly became minority so passed Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) – all that don’t deny Christ’s divinity
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The English Civil War, 1642 - 1646 King vs. Parliament – Suspended Parliament “Roundheads” Puritan Parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell – Commonwealth, Lord Protectorate “Cavaliers” Anglican Royalist King Charles I
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The Carolinas, 1670 Named after Charles II Squatters 1663 - Carolina chartered by 8 proprietors to grow food stuffs for the W. Indies, as well wine silk, and olive oil, later rice 1670 - Charles Town (Charleston) founded by Barbadians, settled by “English sons” and French Huguenots Used lots of slaves
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N. Carolina, 1712 Poor Virginians looking for small farms and religious freedom. No slaves. Mostly squatters. Area of resistance to authority and individualism. “Vale of humility between two areas of conceit”. Harassed governors into their own colony. Like Rhode Island was most democratic, individualistic, and least aristocratic of the 13 colonies.
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Carolina and Native Americans Spain would incite the Indians to harass the English settlements Huge Indian slave industry in this area. They were captured and sent to the W. Indies. Aided by the Savannah Indians, but when they stopped helping the whites wiped them out. The Tuscarora fought with the Carolinans and were pushed out of the area. They moved to NY and became the 6 th tribe of the Iroquois Nation. The Yamasees also fought the Carolinans. With this defeat the coastal Indians in this area were wiped out by 1720.
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Georgia James Oglethorpe Philanthropist (prison reform) 1733 – George II granted charter Purposes Refuge for debtors Utopian experiment Secular Enlightenment ideals Buffer - defense against Spanish Florida (King’s idea) No slaves, no alcohol, no rebel rousers, no land sale Utopia failed (human nature can be a real bugger) 1752 – became royal colony as Oglethorpe gave up Savannah – ministers, missionaries, Methodists
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Commonalities of the Southern Plantation Colonies Broad-acred Exported commercial agricultural products Slavery (Georgia & N. Carolina finally gave in) Aristocratic Slow city growth and few of them Slow school and church growth Religious toleration with Anglican as top religion
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Iroquois Iroquois Confederacy Hiawatha
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To what extent was the South English and to what extent were they uniquely American?
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