Colonial American Essays Notes
Expectations
- Explain how and why various European colonies developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
- Explain how and why environmental and other factors shaped the development and expansion of various British colonies that developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
Notes
- Protestant Reformation → competition for Americas
- Spain winning → England Spain rivals
- Protestant Queen Elicabeth I hired Sir Walter Raleigh to go colonize- 1584
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- created Roanoke- late 1580s
- King Hames I hires Virginia Company to colonize east coast (Chesapeake Bay)- 1606
- Virginia Company + Jamestown
- intended to make a profit (unsucsessful)
- settles Jamestown on James River
- strategic spot against Spain
- hunger was big problem
- communal- no incentive to make food
- too focused on money crops
- drought
- lots of Native attacks
- by 1608, 2/3 colonists dead
- John Smith (silly guy)
- lead expeditions and trade
- captured by Powhatans (very powerful)
- made Chief Powhatan decide English were chill
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