Chapter 2 APUSH

•The Planting of English America

England’s Exploration

• Catholic/Protestant Rivalry• Queen Elizabeth I’s Influence

– Spread Protestant religion– Seize Spanish ships and raid their settlements

• Sir Francis Drake- Circumnavigated the globe and stole from the Spanish.

• Sir Walter Raleigh- Lost colony of Roanoke Island• Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Marks the

beginning of the downturn for the Spanish Empire

Why Now for England?

• Growing population between 1550 and 1600.

• Economic depression in the wool trade in the late 1500s. (Large populations of Puritans impacted by this)

• Only the oldest sons of wealthy landowners could inherit estates, so younger sons went in search of fortune.– Law of primogeniture

Jamestown

• Virginia Company receives charter from James I for a New World settlement.

• Was supposed to only be for a few years to turn a quick profit (Joint-stock company)

• Charter of the Virginia Company a very important document.– Guarantees to overseas British settlers the

same rights as if they were at home

Jamestown

• John Smith (1608)- “He who shall not work shall not eat”

• Starving time- Winter 1609-10

• Lord De La Warr takes over in 1610– Harsh ruler that took an aggressive stance

against the Native Americans.

Conflicts with the Natives

• First Anglo-Powhatan War – Lord De La Warr raids villages and burns houses in a

more aggressive stance against the Native Americans– Ends in 1614 with the marriage of Pocahontas and

John Rolfe• 1622- Indian attacks kill 347 settlers, including Rolfe• Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1644)

– Win by the Virginians ends with peace treaty in 1646 that banishes Indians from their lands and separates them from white settlers.

Important Developments

• Cultivation of tobacco- John Rolfe

• 1619- first Africans brought by the Dutch and sold to colonists in Virginia

• House of Burgesses created in 1619- birth of representative self-government

• By 1625, population of Virginia is only around 1,200.