England

1
England The New World

• 1.5

2
Spains Success

• England, France, Netherlands interested
• 1500s
• Explorers
• Fishermen
• Pirates
• Fur traders
• 1600s settlements

3
1500s Religious Unrest

• 16th Cen. England second rate power
• Racked w/ internal conflict
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI (1547)
• Mary (1553)
• Elizabeth (1558-1609)

4
Ireland

• Conquest lasted into 1600s
• Catholic threat
• Methods developed later used in America on
  Indians Wild Irish/ American Indian
• Slaughter
• Military conquest
• Land seizure
• English economics
• Settlement

5
Charters

• Right to build colony at own expense
• 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh settlement on Roanoke
  Island NC
• 100 people young military men
• Raid Spanish too
• 1586 return to Eng.

6
Lost Colony of Roanoke

• 1587 100 people mostly families permanent
  settlement
• 1590 supply ship arrives people are all gone
• Croaton
• Raleigh bankrupt
• Colonies will need govt support

7
English Motivation

• Gold, Glory, God
• Spain bad anti-Catholicism,
• Black Legend English freedom
• Liberate New World
• Indians will welcome us
• England repeats Spanish behaviors
• Empire Freedom

8

• England could rival Spain France if the build
  empire.
• NA could be source of trade (land animals) not
  gold sugar.

9
England grows weary of her inhabitants

• Population growth
• 1550 3M 1600 4M
• Landowners evict small farmers for sheep
• Cities overcrowded wages fall
• Unemployed a burden
• Whipped, army, forced labor, forced to leave
• America the solution - productive

10
Masterless Men

• Those who control their own labor are truly free.
• America unique opportunity
• Land freedom
• 1623 J. Smith every man a master owner of own
  land labor
• 200 acres impossible in England
• Economic freedom is the gold