APUSH Unit Guide
?Chapter 2 Reading Objectives? 1. ?State the factors that caused the English to start late on colonization.? -Internal religious conflict: the Protestant Reformation in England caused fighting between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and power changed hands between the two for a long time. -Alliance with the Spanish: the two were at peace in the first half of the 1500s, but with the plundering of Spanish ships later in the century, England broke that peace and began to colonize. 2. ?Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity.? -Virginia Company of London sends people to the New World - Chartered by King that guaranteed settlers all English rights