Chapter 2 – The Planting of English AmericaColonist: ______

(If we name our first colony on Mars after Captain Kirk, will it be called Jamestown too?)

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

  1. Explain why England was slow to enter the colonization race and what factors finally led it to launch colonies in the early 17th century.
  2. Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity.
  3. Describe the cultural and social interaction and exchange between English settlers and Indians in Virginia and the effects of the Virginians’ policy of warfare and forced removal on Indians and whites.
  4. Compare the tobacco-based economic development of Virginia and Maryland with South Carolina’s reliance on large-plantation rice-growing and African slavery based on West Indian models.
  5. Identify the major similarities and differences among the southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Pg. 25 Quote: What was Walter Raleigh determined to do? ______

Which initial outposts by European powers set the stage for conflict over control of North America?

-1610 ______

-1608 ______

-1607 ______

Glossary definition – Protestant Reformation ______

Glossary definition – Spanish Armada ______

Pg. 26 – Image: Elizabeth I – The ‘Armada Portrait’ is an effective use of propaganda portraying the queen in a position of power. What does she have under her right hand? What does this symbolize? ______

England following the defeat of the Spanish Armada found itself on the cusp of a blooming national spirit. What factors caused this new spirit to develop? ______

How did population and primogeniture help to encourage migration from England to North America? ______

Glossary definition – Joint-stock company ______

Glossary definition – Charter ______

Captain John Smith made the first ‘law’ of English North America saying, “he who shall not ______, shall not ______.” What is your opinion on this law?

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In the blank space below on this page, sketch the Chesapeake Bay region of modern day Virginia and Maryland.

Chief Powhatan ______

Lord De La Warr ______

Pg. 30 – Image: A Carolina Indian Woman and Child

What did the child receive from the English? ______

Why is this significant (some speculation required here)? ______

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Pg. 31 – Quote from Franklin

What is Benjamin Franklin saying about quality of life when comparing English and Native American

societies?

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Pg. 32 – Image: Advertisement for a voyage to America 1609

If you were down and out looking for a job in the nearest big city to you, and saw this ad in a window today, offering voyages and jobs in the following faraway lands, would you seriously consider going?

Western Australia: DefinitelyMaybeNo

Antarctica:DefinitelyMaybeNo

Colony on the Moon:DefinitelyMaybeNo

‘King Nicotine’ – the pros and cons of Virginian tobacco

The first transport of Africans to Virginia was in the year: ______

Explain the economic situation of Africans slaves in Virginia up to the year 1650. ______

Glossary definition – House of Burgess ______

Why do you think that King James I referred to the House of Burgess as a ‘seminary of sedition?’ ______

Glossary definition – Act of Toleration ______

Glossary definition – Indentured servants ______

Pg. 34 – Image: Sugar mill in Brazil

How does this image illustrate the difference between ‘poor man’s’ tobacco and ‘rich man’s’ sugar cane?

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Pg. 34 - Excerpt from the Barbados slave code: Give an example of punishment from the code. ______

Glossary definition – Barbados slave code ______

The Stuart king ______was (rather shockingly) executed by ______. After a decade or so, the Stuart dynasty was restored when ______was made king. How did geography and agriculture influence the development of the Carolinas? ______

Glossary definition – squatters ______

Pg. 36 Map: What river formed the border between Carolina and Georgia? ______

James Oglethorpe: ______

Explain the geographical reasons that motivated England to create Georgia as a buffer colony.

  1. Spain: ______
  2. France:______

List the plantation colonies: ______