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The Planting of English America 1500- 1733 Chapter 2
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England’s Imperial Stirrings ______________________ –King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic church in the 1530’s launching the____________________________ –Queen Elizabeth made _______________________the dominant religion in England in 1588. –_________________________fought against English domination
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Elizabeth Energizes England Twin goals of England –________________________________ ______________________________ 1588-Spanish Armada –_____________________________ English nationalism arose –_________________________- Shakespeare
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England on the Eve of Empire _______and _________changes in England –_________________________-3 million in 1500 to 4 million by 1600. –“_________________________”- enclosing croplands for sheep grazing- forcing small farmers off the land –England had a “____________________” as opposed to Spanish exploration _________________________-forerunner of modern corporation-allowed investors called “adventurers” to pool their capital
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Continued Reasons for growth of joint-stock companies –_________________________
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England Plants the Jamestown Seedling Virginia Company of London-Joint-Stock Company –_________________________________ ___ –Northwest passage to the______________ –The charter of the Virginia Company is a _____________________________to American history since it guaranteed the same rights to the settlers as of those in England –1607-____________________ –____________________________saved Jamestown from disaster
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Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake _____________________________ –_____________of tribes in the James River area –Peaceful attempts were ________by the Virginia Company’s declaration of war against the Indians. –First Anglo-Powhatan War-1614 ended with __________by marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe –Second Anglo-Powhatan War-1644 ended with ______________________of the Chesapeake Indians –3 D’s-Disease,________________, disposability
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Virginia: Child of Tobacco John Rolfe-father of the____________________ ____________________saved the Virginia colony Tobacco- “King Nicotine” –Ruined the______________ –Virginia became a_________________________ –Promoted the broad- acred_____________________ –Promoted the demand for fresh labor- eventually led to__________________________ –The Dutch introduced ____________to Virginia in 1619 1619-the London Company authorized the ____________________________ First miniature parliament allowing the settlers to elect __________________________ King James I eventually took of Virginia and made it a _____________colony
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Maryland: Catholic Haven 1634-Lord Baltimore-Second “________________” but fourth English colony. Refuge for_______________________ ________________________was the main crop Depended on “______________________” –persons who bound themselves to work for a number of years to pay their passage Act of Toleration-1649- __________________________but death to those who denied the divinity of Jesus
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The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America By 1655 England had developed the _________________as well as the Chesapeake colonies ____________________formed the foundation of the West Indian economy while tobacco was the foundation of the Chesapeake colonies Sugar-____________________________; tobacco- ____________________________crop By 1700 black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indies by______________________ ________________________________- denied almost all rights to slaves while giving virtual control to the slave owners West Indies depended upon North America for _______and_________________________ __
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Continued 1670- __________________was established Carolina officially adopted a version of the _________________________in 1696 Just as the ___________________had been a testing ground for the encomienda system that the Spanish had brought to Mexico and South America, so the Caribbean islands now served as a staging area for the _________________that would take root elsewhere in English North America
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Colonizing the Carolinas 1649 –___________________beheaded King Charles after parliament was dismissed in 1629 Charles II eventually became king and ____________________resumed Carolina was named after_______________ Carolina grew “________________________” to sell to plantations in Barbados and the other Islands of the West Indies. Many came to Carolina from West Indies bringing ____________________ with them Indian slave trade also grew in the _________________and________________ ________ _______________became the major crop of the Carolinas Rice came from Africa-_______________ experienced in growing rice were sent to Carolina ______________________________
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The Emergence of North Carolina North Carolina –____________________from Virginia –______________________to authority –North Carolina and Rhode Island were the most____________________; most___________________________-; and the _____________________________of the original thirteen English colonies South Carolina –Aristocratic
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Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony 1733-___________ of the 13 colonies- Named after King George II of England Georgia was intended to serve as a “_________”. It would protect the Carolinas against the Spaniards from Florida and against the French from Louisiana Haven for those_______________________ James Oglethorpe-founder- ______________; tried to keep out slavery Savannah, like Charleston, was a _________________(German Lutherans, Scots Highlanders; religious tolerance except Catholics ______________________founded the Methodist church in England came from Carolina
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The Plantation Colonies _______________________-Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia ________________________land ______________________-tobacco and rice _________________________ ______________________________(exce pt North Carolina and somewhat Georgia). Plantations and farms _______________________retarded growth of cities, churches, and schools ___________________________ Church of England- ____________________(except North Carolina) “______________________” drove settlers westward
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The Iroquois _____________________-New York State The Iroquois Confederacy or “__________________________________ ____”-five Indian Nations –Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas Founded by Deganawidah and_______________ Vied with neighboring Indians for _____________ supremacy then with the French, English, and Dutch for control of the fur trade _______________building block of Iroquois-two nuclear families-matrilineal (mother’s side) The Revolutionary War ___________the tribes up since many sided with the English. Building block to ___________of the 13 English Colonies
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