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The English Establish 13
Colonies (1585 1732)
Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Review of Previous Material
Queen Elizabeth I
English defeat of Spanish Armada in 1588
Huguenots Fort Caroline and St. Augustine
Sir Francis Drake
Mercantilism
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The Lost Colony of
Roanoke
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English Plan Colonies
By the late 1500s Spain had many
colonies in the Americas.
Can you give any examples of Spanish
colonies in the Americas?
Peru, New Spain, Cuba.
How many colonies did the English have
in the Americas by the late 1500s? Zero
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Richard Hakyluts Plan
Who was Richard Hakylut? There were two Richard Hakyluts. Uncle and
Nephew.
History books talk about them as if they are one
person.
We do not know much about either of them
except the fact that they were both geographers/
cartographers.
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Richard Hakyluts Plan
Hakylut urged the English crown to start acolony in North America.
Why start a colony?
Colonies would provide a market for Englishexports.
Colonies would serve as a source of raw
materials for England.
Increase trade and build up gold supply. What is
this type of economic system called?
Mercantilism.
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Richard Hakyluts Plan
Were there anymore reasons for England
to start a colony in the Americas?
Spread Protestantism.
Who created Protestantism?
Lack of economic opportunity and stories
of gold mines lured people to leave
England for the Americas.
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Sir Walter Raleighs Expedition
1584 Raleigh leads a
reconnaissance
expedition along the
eastern coast of NorthAmerica.
He lands on an island
off the coast of
modern day NorthCarolina and meet the
natives.
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Sir Walter Raleighs Expedition
Two natives were persuaded to return to
England with Raleigh.
They helped to generate excitement about
exploration and settlement in North America.
1585 Raleigh, who was favored by Queen
Elizabeth I, was granted a charter
(permission to establish a temporarysettlement) on the island of Roanoke.
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Sir Walter Raleighs Expedition
April 1585, Raleigh leftEngland with 6 boatsand 700 people.
Upon arrival at Roanoke,100 people stayed withthe promise that therewould be a reliefexpedition the nextspring. These were verywealthy investors with noexperience in setting upa colony.
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Settling Roanoke
Those who remained on Roanoke wrotetheir accounts about interactions with theNative Americans.
Most accounts said that the NativeAmericans were gentle, loving, andfaithful. They posed no threat to securityand they coexisted with the English for awhile.
The natives helped the settlers gather andgrow food.
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Settling Roanoke
The silver cup incident.
When a colonist found his silver cup missing,he immediately blamed the nearby Native
Americans. To show their force the English burned the
village to the ground.
This event ruined the relationship between the
settlers and the Native Americans. The settlers would now have to fend for
themselves.
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Settling Roanoke
The next spring, the settlers began
growing impatient with the slow arrival of
their relief.
Sir Francis Drake happened to be in the
area and agreed to let the settlers ride on
his boat back to England.
What do you think Drake was doing?
Raiding Spanish ships and ports.
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Settling Roanoke
About six weeks later the relief expedition
returned to find the colony abandoned.
The relief ship left twenty men to guard the
fort in 1586.
1587 another relief ship returns with 110
people led by John White, Raleighs
brother-in-law.
This group becomes the lost colony.
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Settling Roanoke
The next relief expedition did not arrive foranother three years in 1590. Why so late?
Because in 1588 the Spanish Armada and
English navy began fighting. This occupiedall available English vessels.
In 1590, when John White arrived, the
colony had been abandoned with no traceof any settlers. The only sign was the wordCroatoan carved into a door frame.
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What happened to the Lost
Colony of Roanoke.
Did the leave the area and join with the friendly
Croatoan tribe?
Were they massacred by Spanish sailors?
Were they killed in warfare with surroundingNative American tribes?
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John White the Artist
John White was an excellent artist and
recorded much of the animals and Native
American customs of the region.
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John White the Artist
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John White the Artist
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John White the Artist
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John White the Artist