Chapter 2 Flashcards
Elizabethton England
Elizabeth I is Queen
England was neutral power
Privateers attacked Spain
Brutally subdued Irish Catholics
Protestant reformation
Henry VIII broke with Catholic Church
Decades of religious strife
England and Spain became enemies
Sir Francis duke
Circumnavigated the world
Plundered many Spanish ships
Queen Elizabeth’s boyfriend
Roanoke island
Established by Sir Walter Raliegh
CROATOAN
1588 Spanish Armada
England wins because of more maneuverable ships
Allows England to take control of Atlantic waters
Protestant wind
Weird storm hits Spanish navy while they’re on their way home from attacking England and destroys a large part of Spain’s navy and kills many of their best captains
England on the eve of the empire
- rapidly growing population due to wood selling
- economic depression of late 1500s created when wool is no longer needed
Joint stock companies
Early corporations
“Surplus population”
Landowners kicked peasants off their land and many people of England were poor and homeless
Jamestown
- starving time 60/400 live
- John smith-saves colony in short term “no work no food”
- John Rolfe-saves colony for long term-marries pocohantas
Head rights
- Every adult in the new world gets 50 acres of land
- Indentured servants could have someone else pay for them to get to the new world then work 7 years and get their land
House of burgesses
Jamestown
Representative assembly
1619
First slaves come to Jamestown in the year
1619
Jamestown becomes a royal colony
1624 English govt takes over
De la warr
Introduced Irish tactics against the Indians when he took over Jamestown in 1610
First Anglo Powhatan war
Settled in 1614 when John Rolfe marries pocohantas
3Ds
Disease
Disorganization
Disposability
Effects of trade on Indians
Great Plains Indians for horses
Indian vs Indian violence increased for best hunting grounds so they could trade for more euro goods
DISEASE
Maryland
4th colony settled in 1634
Proprietary colony-land granted to Lord Baltimore aka Cecilius Calvert
Intended as safe haven for Catholics and feudal system
Became mostly Protestants with plantations
First colony with no starving time
Act for religious toleration
Drafted by Baltimore
Didn’t protect non Christians
West Indies
More money to be made
Sugar cane
Labor intensive crop
Barbados slave trade
Denied slaves fundamental rights
Gave slave owners complete control over slaves
Carolina founded
Proprietary colony given to 8 lords by King Charles II
Carolina
Rice and sugar
Indians were enslaved