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 –
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 England 1558 - 1603

6. Roanoke – The Failed Colony 1585

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