Englands 1st Colonies Queen Elizabeth

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Englands 1st Colonies (Queen Elizabeth)

• I. Ireland
• 1. Protestant (Anglican) Britains fear
• a. Catholic Ireland may unite with Spain
• b. Britain brutally conquers Ireland
• -savage murder of many Irish Catholics

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II. Central America

• 1. Compete with Spain
• a. Trans-Atlantic slave trade
• -free laborbrutal treatment
• b. Cultivate tropical goods
• -sugar, tobacco, bananas
• c. Millions of profit for Britain

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III. Sir Walter Raleigh

• 1. Roanoke Enterprise
• a. Survey land for potential profits
• b. Sets the stage for large-scale British
  colonization
• c. Spain outraged
• d. Sir Walter crew mysteriously disappeared
• -Natives, Spaniards or environment?

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IV. Jamestown (1607) John Smith

• 1. The Virginia Company
• a. Conflict with Algonquin Tribe
• -Pocahontas Peace Treaty
• b. Vast Tobacco cultivation
• -need more land
• -conflict with natives
• -need more labor
• -demand for slaves
• V. Maryland
• 1. British and Irish Catholic Refuge
• a. Escape persecution in U.K.
• b. Cultivate tobacco

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VI. Spains Reaction to British Colonies

• 1. Spanish King Philip II
• a. Non-Catholics
• not welcome to New World
• b. Declare war on Britain
• SPAIN V. BRITAIN
• I I
• Catholic V. Protestant
• c. Storm destroys Spanish Fleet
• -Britain claimed Divine Intervention
• -New World open to Britain