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Chapter 2: The Plantings of English America 1500-1733  · While Spain controlled land south of New Mexico, much of North America in 1600 was unexplored Three outposts were planted: Santa Fe (Spanish, 1610); Quebec (French, 1608); Jamestown, Virginia (English, 1607) · King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church, the English Protestant Reformation began, battle occurred until 1558 when Elizabeth took the throne and Protestantism became dominant (Elizabeth- virgin queen) · Ireland, under English rule, sought aid from Spain in remaining Catholic and was not successful ·  Englishmen seek Spanish treasure, first English colony, founded by Sir Humphrey Gilbert on the coast of Newfoundland, fails. The Roanoke Colony off the coast of West Virginia vanishes · Philip II of Spain invades England in 1588, the English fight until a storm scatters the Spanish ships- England’s victory helped the country to become dominant in the North Atlantic · Social and economic change: the English had faith in the future of their nation, the population grew <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Unemployment and the search for adventure, markets, and religious freedom sent people to the New World through joint-stock companies. The Virginia Company of London set sail in 1606 with three ships after receiving a charter from King James I, charter guaranteed the rights of Englishmen <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">May 24, 1607: 100 Englishmen landed in “Jamestown” <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many died as a result of disease or starvation <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">John Smith: kidnapped by Powhatan, “saved” from a fake execution by Pocahontas, who helped to preserve peace between the English and the Indians <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lord De La Warr refuses to allow escape, created military <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">All Indians referred to as Powhatans. Lord De La Warr declares war on the Indians using Irish tactics. Anglo-Powhatan War ends with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A second war ends with the Indians defeated again and banished, Europeans wanted land. Indians migrated to the great plains <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Disease took lived and cultures, competition between Indians occurred because Europeans would trade goods <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Inland, Natives possessed more power than on the coast <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">John Rolfe saved the colony economically, as father of the tobacco industry, Europeans demanded it <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Demand for labor increased, in 1619, twenty Africans were bought- slavery was born as well as representative self-government (House of Burgesses-summoned assembly). In 1624, James I made Virginia a colony under his control by revoking the charter <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lord Baltimore’s colony of Maryland was successful- he guaranteed toleration to all Christians, (Act of Toleration, 1649) although Jews and atheists were sentenced to death <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">England colonized several West Indian islands, as, well, where sugar crops helped the economy to flourish. Many slaves (African) were imported to work on plantations <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1670, Englishmen from Barbados brought their slave code to Carolina, Carolina prospered in exporting Indian slaves <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">King Charles I dismissed Parliament in 1629, was beheaded in 1649 after he recalled it, and Charles II took the throne <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">William Penn founded a Quaker colony (Pennsylvania) and rice became an export of Carolina. Charles Town was the busiest seaport <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">North Carolina and Rhode Island: least aristocratic colonies; Georgia: created as a buffer. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Plantation colonies: southern mainland colonies