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923903580Elizabeth: A: Response to Catholic Irish B: Francis DrakeA: 1570's to 1580's Elisabeth brought troops into Ireland an defeated Catholics. Got rid of Catholic lands and replaced them with Protestant land lords B: Looted many different areas in Europe. Came back with lots of treasure1
923903581C: Sir Walter raleigh/ Roanoke D: 1588 Sea Battle "Protestant Wind"C: Organized a petition to go to North Carolina. Landed there in 1585 and named it Virginia Queen. It was originally called Roanoke Island2
923903582Reasons for Colonizationover population in England Unemployment, hoping to gain fortune in the New World Laws of Primogeniture- sons receive land in new world from parents Northwest passage- explore and to create trading route3
923903583Joint Stock CompanyA company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder gives some money to a company and the group receives some share of the company's profits and debts.4
923903584JamestownA: Early struggles- settlers died of disease, malnutrition and starvation B: John Smith- "He shall not work shall not eat" kidnapped and fake execution by Chesapeake Native Americans. Pocahantus pretends to save him C: Powhatan Leader of Chesapeake Native Americans, father of Pocahontas, rules over smaller Native American tribes5
923903585JamestownD: Pocahontas: Daughter of Bowhatan pretended to save John Smith's life E: Powhatan's Confederacy: Powhatan has control of many small tribes that are not associated with each other F: Lord De La Warr: Harsh military based system in Jamestown. Preparing to fight Native Americans6
923903586JamestownG: John Rolfe: Married Pocahontas. father of tobacco company H: Irish Tactics: Lord De La Warr led the fight against the Chesapeake Native Americans. Raided the Chesapeake Villages, Burned houses and cornfields and took all necesities.7
923903587JamestownI: First Anglo-Powhatan War: Involved "Irish tactics" enfed in 1614 and marriage of Pocahontas and John Wolfe J: Second Anglo-Powhatan War: 1644 Indians tried to get rid of Viriginians. Virginians were able to banish Chesapeake Native Americans from their sacred lands K: Three D's: Why the Chesapeake Native Americans lost: Disease, diorganization, disposability8
923903588Tobacco "bewitching weed"A: Rolfe- Father of tobacco Industry B: Effects of Tobacco 1. Increased demand 2. Increase in desire for land 3. Needs lots of soil 4. Used in plantation system 5. demand for more laborors a. indentured servatns b. slaves9
923903589Tobacco "bewitching weed"C: House of Burgesses 1. Self governments 2. Seminary of sedition a. 1624 London Company carter cancelled by royal company10
923903590Maryland:A. Founded by Lord baltimore 1634 B. Catholic C. Catholics were prosecuted by Protestants so.... D. Act of toleration: Allowed toleration of all types of Christianity11
923903591West IndiesA. England claimed Jamaica in 1655 after Spain moved military forces away from Caribbean 1. Sugar main trade in Jamaica B. Sugar Cane "Rich Man's Crop" 1. Took a lot to clear land C. African slaves outnumbered the White settlers in Jamaica around 1700 D. Barbados Slave Code: 1661 denied simple rights ti slaves and gave their owners complete control over their slaves12
923903592CarolinasA.Became English Colony in 1670, B. Increase of Slaves to Carolinas to grow rice C. Had close connections with sugar palntation in the West Indies E. Main town: Charlestown13
923903593North CarolinaA. Separated from Carolina in 1712 B. poor, strong inhabitatns C. Less aristocratiic than th other colonies D. very democratic14
923903594GeorgiaA. Established: 1733 B. Buffer state between Carolinas and Flordia C. Founded by Philanthropists 1. Debters 2. No slavery until 1750 3. James Oglethorpe: soldier-statesman: helped repell spanish attacks. leadership saved the colony with sacrifice of own future 4. known as the charity colony15
923903595Plantation Colonies Effect:A. Exports agricultural products B. Slaves to work on plantation C. Aristocratic, less in North Carolina and Georgia D. Limited city growth E. Limited school and church development16

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