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Bill Fell Mr. Rowells AP US History 20 August 2009 Chapter Two  In Chapter two, I have learned that before 1600, North America was not claimed by Europeans. Spain arrived at Santa Fe in 1610, French to Quebec in 1608, and England in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Queen Elizabeth is the cause for England to go out and pursue land since she wanted to spread Protestantism and to take Spanish treasure and to raid Spanish settlements. England’s victory over Spain’s Armada helps weaken Spain’s will to fight which let England control most of the seas. Virginia is emerged from Queen Elizabeth’s’ nickname, “Virgin Queen.” There was an economic depression that existed in England in the late 1500’s. The main reason why King James wanted to put settlement into the new world was to find the gold of Virginia and to find a shortcut to the Indies. The charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed oversea settlers the same rights they would have on the main land. In 1606, the Virginias Company ships landed in Chesapeake Bay. When landed, they got attacked by Indians, so they settled by place that was easy to defend. The place would be called Jamestown and it would be very mosquito-infested. Smith took over in 1607 making people work for food. Smith got captured by the Powhatan, who Pocahontas saved by trying to show Smith that Powhatan’s power and that Powhatan wants peace with the colonists. Colonists were hungered so much that they resulted upon eating dead corpses. Pocahontas also stopped the First Anglo-Powhatan War by marrin John Rolfe, who died form an Indian attack. The treaty of the Second Anglo-Popayan War destroyed any peace of Indians and Colonists living together, early part of the reservation system. In 1685 colonists thought Powhatan people were extinct. In 1612 tobacco planting was perfected by John Rolf. The House of Burgesses was made in 1619. Maryland was founded in 1639 b Lord Baltimore. Maryland killed anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus (Jews and atheists). England took over some West Indian Islands by mid 17th century. North Carolina and Rhode Island were the most democratic and the most independent- minded.