England and the New World

Period 2

Do Now:

•  After analyzing the image, what evidence can you find regarding reasons for English emigration to the New World?

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Enclosure Movement:

•  ______in Europe ______with modern farming practices

•  Large farmland owners ______farms and evicted small farmers and tenants à ______

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Social Crisis:

•  ______:

-1550: ___ million à 1600: ___ million

•  Low economic growth

•  Low wages

•  “vagrants”, ______

•  Prices increased

“All our towns complain of the burden of poor people and strive by all means to rid any such they have.”

- John Winthrop, 1629

What does Winthrop mean by this? ______

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English Government Policies:

•  Unemployed could be ______

•  Queen Elizabeth attempted to regulate hours and wages

•  Vagrants had to accept any job offered

•  Changing employment could result in ______

Religious Strife:

•  Protestant Reformation

•  1500s: Mary ______, Elizabeth ______

•  ______to stability of Protestant rule

- English seized land, power, killed Irish

à ______

- barbaric “wild Irish” compared to ______

Richard Hakluyt:

•  ______

•  Advocated for the establishment of colonies

•  Wrote, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584), listing ______reasons Queen Elizabeth should ______

•  Read your assigned section. What reasons does he provide in support of colonization in this excerpt?

Land Left for England?

•  Spanish claims to the south & French claims to the north and west

•  Left England with ______

- ______

- couldn’t cultivate ______

Emigration Propaganda:

•  Promoted colonization with images of ______, abundant ______, and endless ______

Hopes in the New World:

•  Economic independence

•  Religious freedom

•  ______: land owning possibilities

•  A “second chance”

•  Freedom

- enter as ______(work for 5-7 years)

- 1600s 2/3rds of English came as indentured servants

- “______”

à England produced far higher percentage of their population willing to brave the new world:

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•  Wrap Up: Compare and contrast England and Spain’s reasons for colonization in the New World.