1. Colonization

2. Key Colonies St. Augustine Oldest permanent settlement 1565
French Huguenot
Spain: Santa Fe in
1610
French: Quebec in
1608
England: Jamestown
in 1607

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Characteristics of English Colonies
Agriculture
Slave Labor
Economic/Social hierarchies
Tobacco

6. Colonial Regions New England: homogeneous Middle: diverse
Southern: scattered