Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Elizabethton England

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Elizabeth I is Queen
England was neutral power
Privateers attacked Spain
Brutally subdued Irish Catholics

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Protestant reformation

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Henry VIII broke with Catholic Church
Decades of religious strife
England and Spain became enemies

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Sir Francis duke

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Circumnavigated the world
Plundered many Spanish ships
Queen Elizabeth’s boyfriend

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Roanoke island

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Established by Sir Walter Raliegh

CROATOAN

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1588 Spanish Armada

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England wins because of more maneuverable ships

Allows England to take control of Atlantic waters

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Protestant wind

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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

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England on the eve of the empire

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  • rapidly growing population due to wood selling

- economic depression of late 1500s created when wool is no longer needed

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Joint stock companies

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Early corporations

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“Surplus population”

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Landowners kicked peasants off their land and many people of England were poor and homeless

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Jamestown

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  • 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
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Head rights

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  • 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

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House of burgesses

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Jamestown
Representative assembly
1619

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First slaves come to Jamestown in the year

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1619

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Jamestown becomes a royal colony

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1624 English govt takes over

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De la warr

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Introduced Irish tactics against the Indians when he took over Jamestown in 1610

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First Anglo Powhatan war

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Settled in 1614 when John Rolfe marries pocohantas

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3Ds

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Disease
Disorganization
Disposability

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Effects of trade on Indians

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Great Plains Indians for horses
Indian vs Indian violence increased for best hunting grounds so they could trade for more euro goods
DISEASE

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Maryland

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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

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Act for religious toleration

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Drafted by Baltimore

Didn’t protect non Christians

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West Indies

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More money to be made
Sugar cane
Labor intensive crop

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Barbados slave trade

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Denied slaves fundamental rights

Gave slave owners complete control over slaves

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Carolina founded

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Proprietary colony given to 8 lords by King Charles II

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Carolina

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Rice and sugar

Indians were enslaved

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North Carolina
Settled by virginia squatters Democratic Grew tobacco
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Georgia
``` Last of 13 colonies Named in honor of King George II Founded by James Oglethorpe Debtor colony Buffer colony Slavery introduced in 1750 ```
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Plantation lifestyle
Few cities Tobacco and rice were cash crops Most of population was make indentured servants
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Primogeniture
First sons get land
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African diaspora
Cast scattering of African peoples throughout the new world
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Five tribes of Iroquois
``` Seneca Cayuga Onondagas Oneidas Mohawks ```
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What led to their demise
Disease | American revolution they picked British side and lost