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Title: England


1
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

2
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

3
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?

4
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
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