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WARM UPWrite the following questions in your notebook. Leave room for the answers. By the end of class, you will be able to answer all of the following questions:
1. Describe the Protestant Reformation.2. What happened to the Spanish Armada in
1588?3. What would finding the Northwest Passage
have allowed sailors to do? Who searched for it?
4. Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke?
5. The French: Where did they settle?6. The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did
they settle?
2-4 THE RACE FOR EMPIRESPages 52-57 in
textbook
WHAT WAS THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION?
EVENTS IN EUROPEProtestant Reformation 1517 (Germany) Martin Luther
Publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church Church too wealthy and abused its
power Religious movement began in small
German towns but quickly spread to most of Europe Create political disputes
Protestants – reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church’s practices Religion should be simple
Printing press spread Reformations ideas Bible’s, essays Allowed independent study
Conflict between Catholics and Protestants Civil war
1500s French Catholics vs. French Huguenots (protestant) = Huguenots emigrated to Americas
Religious freedom 1534 Church of England created by
Henry the VIII Challenged Popes authority http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ3AFZXXX-k
QUESTION 1
Describe the Protestant Reformation.
What happened to the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Spain and England Go to War 1500s King Philip II of Spain led
Catholic Reformation in response to the Protestant Reformation Goal: Drive the Protestants out of
England Sea Dogs = English sailors led by Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Armada – huge fleet of warships meant to end English plans
Invade England Overthrow Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican Church
1588 Smaller English fleet defeated the Armada
Shocked Spain Spain’s economy is in trouble
Ends Spain’s dominance of the sea
QUESTION 2
What happened to the Spanish Armada in
1588?
What would finding the Northwest Passage have allowed sailors to do? Who searched for it?
Search for a Northwest Passage Northwest Passage – water route
through NA that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific John Cabot – Sailed for England
(1497-1498) Basis for the English American colonies
Giovanni da Verrazano – 1524 (Italy) Coasts of North Carolina to Maine
Jacques Cartier (France) St. Lawrence River Land claimed for France
Henry Hudson (England) 1609 Found NY 1st trip he sailed for the Dutch and the 2nd for the English
Hudson Bay
QUESTION 3
What would finding the Northwest
Passage have allowed sailors to do? Who
searched for it?
Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke?
EUROPEAN PRESENCE Spain and Portugal dominated
Americas early England, France, and the Dutch also
explored North America
English Presence in the New World The English wanted to try to set up a
permanent settlement in the new world in the 1500s
Sir Walter Raleigh Received a charter from the Queen
WHAT IS A CHARTER? A document giving permission to create
a settlement colony 1584 expedition landed in present day
Virginia and North Carolina
Roanoke Island founded in NC in 1585
Hard life – fought with Native Americans, trouble finding and growing food
1 year later returned to England John White resettled in 1587, returned to England for supplies but war with Spain prevented him from returning for 3 years. When he did colony was deserted
“lost colony”
QUESTION 4
Why was it so difficult to start a colony at Roanoke?
FRENCH PRESENCE IN THE NEW WORLDThe French: Where did they settle?
French Presence in the New World 1st North American settlement was
Florida (1564) Destroyed by Spanish
Settled Present Day Canada Samuel de Chaplain
Followed Cartier 1608 colony on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec for fur trade
1600s New France Fur traders, explorers, missionaries
Mississippi River – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette (1673)
Mississippi Valley claimed for France called Louisiana
1700s New Outposts Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans 12000 settlers Allied with Native Americans because of Fur Trades
QUESTION 5
The French: Where did they settle?
DUTCH AND SWEDISH PRESENCE IN THE NEW WORLD
The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did they settle?
Dutch Presence in the New World Dutch were searching for trade Claimed the land between the Delaware River
and the Hudson River = New Netherlands 1624Dutch West India Company
Bought Manhattan Island for $24 New Amsterdam
Religious freedom
Swedish Presence in the New World New Sweden in the same area along the
Delaware River – later became part of New Netherlands
QUESTION 6
The Dutch and the Swedish: Where did they
settle?