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Chapter 2 Notes Even though North America was discovered in 1492, most of America was still undiscovered. As all the countries were trying to get a piece of the New World, except England. There were very busy because they were fighting with itself for the dominate religion. The New World tried to colonize themselves, but it did not work. Spain gained its independent. They were able to fight of their own enemies. England gained interest in the colonization of the New World. In the 1500s there was an economic depression in England. John Smith and his crew suffered new diseases on their adventure to Virginia. When Pocahontas married Rolfe, the First Anglo-Powhatan war ended in 1614. Indians started to fight and dislike other Indians with in their tribe. Virginia’s prosperity was built on tobacco. Tobacco began its rise and fame in 1612. The horrible slavery sale began in 1650. England was still killing Roman Catholics. Sugar was quite popular in the Caribbean. The labor and the punishment of the slaves began to become very cruel, horrible, intense, and vicious. Theft was becoming quite common. Sugar was now a very popular and valuable item. England had a civil war of their own, which resulted in Charles I dismissing the Parliament in 1640. Carolina began to need the aid of the Savannah Indian. When the Savannah Indians decide to flee the country and migrate to the Maryland and Pennsylvania country, the Carolinians decided to annihilate the Indian tribes in 1710. England’s exotic food was rice. The Cure for Malaria was disease that now made them a target for sickle-cell anemia. Pirates were also becoming horrible and worse by the minute. Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies. Georgia was founded in 1733. The economic system was bad and was slowly becoming better. In England, the Church of England became the dominant faith.