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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
16th Century England
Sixteenth-century England was a difficult place.
many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food.
led to a food shortage & many agricultural workers lost their jobs. -
Roanoke
first English settlement established July 22, 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children) settled on the island of Roanoke. -
roanoke vanished
colony had vanished entirely. -
Division of the Atlantic Seaboard
King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two -
Jamestown
the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. -
Life in Jamestown
Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, it seemed the colony might survive. -
jamestown first slaves
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619 -
Pilgrims
First English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth -
House of Burgesses
King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony. -
The Middle Colonies
King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia (already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners) to his brother, the Duke of York. -
The New England Colonies
Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven -
the middle colonies
king granted 45,000 sq. miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland -
the southern colonies
In its southern half, there were large estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and--starting in the 1690s—rice -
The Southern Colonies
inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony.