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=The Planting of English America=

I. England's Imperial Stirrings
> a) Spain's empire trumped England's >> ii) religious rivalry > b) Protestant Reformation >> i) King Henry VIII breaks w/ Catholic Church >> ii) Protestantism - the English church > c) Catholic Ireland sought freedom from Protestant England >> i) English easily crushed uprising >> ii) despite help from Spain >> iii) English takes Irish lands

II. Elizabeth Energizes England
> a) English seadogs raid Spanish >> i) Francis Drake famous plunderer > b) English fail at colonization - Newfounland & Jamestown > c) Spanish Armada >> i) Spanish fleet built for invasion >> ii) Defeated by England - marks end of Span. empire > d) Factors for colonization >> i) nat'ism/nat'l spirit >> ii) religious unity >> iii) naval dominance

III. England on the Eve of Empire
> a) pop. boom > b) joint stock companies >> i) laws of primogenture >> ii) eldest sons inherit land >> iii) ambitious youngest sons invest > c) europe adopts puritanism

IV. England Plants the Jamestown Seedling
> a)VIrginia Company charter > b) colonists had same rights as Englishmen > c) Founded May 24, 1607 > d) John Smith resecues dying/failing colony - disease/malnutrition >> i) est. peace w/ Indians > e) Lord De La Warr brings relief

V. Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake
> a) Powhatan's Confed.loses pwr > b) First Anglo-Powhatan War >> i) England employs Irish tactics - raid villages, burned houses, torched fields > c) Pocahontas-Rolfe marriage ends war (but doesn't perm. end conflict) > d) Indiand retaliate 1622 - kill 347 > e) Second Anglo-Powhatan War >> i) English crush Indians >> ii) Peace treaty 1646 banishes Indians from ancestral lnds > f) powhatans extinct: disease, disorganiztion, disposability - expendable to colonists

VI. The Indians' New World
> a) horses facilitate Indian migration > b) disease struck Indians - led to creation of new tribes > c) firearms trade - skins for guns > d) Inland Indians dominated Europeans >> i) massive pop., traders had to assimilate to do biz w/ Indians >> ii) Coastal Indians dominated Europeans

VII. Virginia: Child of Tobacco
> a) tobacco rush ruined soil required labor > b) basis of VA's econ. > c) Slavery 1619 - expensive initially > d) rep self-gov. -- House of Burg - first assembly in 1619 >> i) Irks King James I - terminates VA's charter, makes Royal VA colony

VIII. Maryland: Catholic Haven
> a) 1634 founded by Lord Baltimore - refuge for Catholics, financial gain > b) Catholics had lux. estates - Jealous protestants rebel - Baltimore family lost proprietary rights > c) Tobacco led MD to prosperity - indentured sevants

IX. The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
> a) Spain loosens control over islands - England takes them > b) Sugar: Cornerstone of West Indian econ. >> i) rich man's crop - required money - tobacco poor man's crop, cheap to make >> ii) demanded labor source > c) Slave codes >> i) gave all rights to slave owners >> ii) Barbados code

X. Colonizing the Carolinas
> a) Civil war in England causes break in colonization > b) Carolina created in 1670 >> i) proprietors given pan american expanse >> ii) aimed to provide provisions for West Indies and export wine, silk, and oil > c) Indian slaves exported to NE > d) Rice became export crop - African Slaves used > e) Charleston became busiest southern pier >> i) religious freedom >> ii) Spanish tried to exterminate Carolinas

XI. The Emergence of North Carolina
> a) Virginian squatters moved south to farm tobacco > b) Frequent Indian conflicts

XII. Late Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
> a) Intended to protect Carolinas from Spanish and French > b) Produced silk and wine > c) Debtors haven > d) Savannah became a melting pot > e) Slowest developing colony

XIII. The Plantation Colonies
> a) Crop exportation >> i) tobacco >> ii) rice > b) Slavery > c) aristocratic except Georgia and North Carolina > d) plantations > e) religious tolerance > f) expansion caused conflicts with Indians