Chapter 2: The Planting of English America



Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Identification: People & Terms

• Queen Elizabeth I

• Sir Francis Drake

• Sea Dogs

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Spanish Armada

• Primogeniture

• Joint stock company

• Virginia Company of London

• Charter of the Virginia Company

• Kings James I

• Jamestown

• John Smith

• Powhatan / Powhatan Confederacy

• Pocahontas

• Lord De La Warr

• Anglo-Powhatan War of 1614

• Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644

• John Rolfe

• Tobacco

• House of Burgesses

• Lord Baltimore

• Indentured servants

• Act of Toleration

• Rice

• Barbados Slave Code of 1661

• James Oglethorpe

• Iroquois Confederacy

Chapter 2 Focus Questions:

1. By 1600, what was the status of the Spanish and the English with respect to exploration and colonization?

2. What were the England’s motives for colonization?

3. What were the goals of the Jamestown colonists?

4. What problems existed with the Jamestown settlement?

5. Describe De La Warr’s tactics and their impact on Anglo-Powhatan relations?

6. Why did the Powhatan-Anglo relationship develop so differently from the native-Spanish relationship?

7. What problems did James I have with Virginia?

8. What kind of a colony did Lord Baltimore envision? What actually developed?

9. What was significant about Maryland’s religious laws?

10. How were tobacco and sugar cane farming different? Why did smaller English farmers move to Carolina?

11. What did the Lord Proprietors hope to use the Carolina land for?

12. How was the Carolina culture and development similar to Barbados?

13. What was the Carolinian relationship with the Savannah Indians? Why did it deteriorate?

14. What were the characteristics of people who settled North Carolina?

15. Why was Georgia created?

16. What were the strongest commonalities of the plantation colonies?

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