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North America in ___ was largely unclaimed, though the ___ had much control in Central and South America.
1600, Spanish
Spain had only set up ____, while ____ had founded Quebec and Britain had founded ____.
Santa Fe, Quebec, Jamestown
In the ____s, Britain didn’t really colonize because of internal conflicts.
1500
_____broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the ____s and launched the ____ ____ _____.
King Henry VIII, 1530's, English Protestant Reformation
After ____ became queen, Britain became basically ____ , and a rivalry with Catholic COUNTRY intensified.
Elizabeth I, Protestant, Spain
In COUNTRY, the Catholics sought Spain’s help in revolting against England, but the____ crushed the uprising with brutal atrocity, and developed an attitude of sneering contempt for natives.
Ireland, English
After Britain basically defeated Spain (i.e. ____ _____ defeat), British swarmed to America and took over lead in colonization and power.
Spanish Aramada
After ____ circumnavigated the globe, Liz I knighted him on his ship.
Drake
Britain and Spain finally signed a peace treaty in ____.
1604
1500's- RELIGION took a strong root in the woolen districts of western and eastern England.
Puritanism
By the 1600s, the____-_____ company was perfected, being a forerunner to today’s corporations.
joint-stock
In ___, the Virginia Company received a charter from King _____ to make a settlement in the New World.
1606, James I
On May 24, ____, about a 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown.
1607
In ____, a Captain John Smith took over control and whipped the colonists into discipline.
1608
in ____, a relief party headed by Lord __ __ ____ arrived to alleviate the suffering.
1610, De La Warr
By____, out of an original overall total of 8000 would-be settlers, only 1200 had survived.
1625
TRIBE possibly considered the new colonists potential allies and tried to be friendly with them, but as time passed and colonists raided Indian food supplies, relations deteriorated and eventually, war occurred.
Powhatan
First Anglo-Powhatan War ended in ____ with a peace settlement sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe.
1614
Later, in ___ , the Indians struck again with a series of attacks that left 347 settlers, including John Rolfe, dead.
1622
The Second Anglo-Powhatan War began in ___, ended in ____ and effectively banished the TRIBE Indians from their ancestral lands.
1644, 1646, Chesapeake
_____ created a greed for land, since it heavily depleted soil and ruined the land.
Tobacco
___ ____ _ detested tobacco.
King James I
Representative self-government was born in Virginia,in___, settlers created the ___ __ _____
1619, House of Burgesses.
Slavery in the Americas was born in _____
1619
Founded in ____ by Lord ____, _____ was the second plantation colony and the fourth overall colony to be formed
1634, Baltimore, Maryland
_______ was a place for persecuted ______ to find refuge.
Maryland, Catholics
Lord Baltimore gave huge estates to his Catholic relatives, but the poorer people who settled there where mostly _____, creating friction.
Protestant
Maryland prospered with____ and It had a lot of indentured servants.
tobacco
As the British were colonizing Virginia, they were also settling in the ____ _____
West Indies
By mid-1600s, England had secured claim to several West Indies islands, including Jamaica in ____
1655
Thousands of African slaves were needed to operate ____ plantations, in Jamaica
sugar
To control slaves _____ were set up that defined the legal status of slaves and the rights of the masters.
codes
In England, King Charles I had been beheaded. _____ _____ had ruled for ten years before tired Englishmen restored Charles II to the throne
Oliver Cromwell
Carolina was named after ____ ____and was formally created in ___.
Charles II, 1670
____ emerged as the principle crop in Carolina.
Rice
Many newcomers to Carolina were ____” people who owned no land.
squatters
In ___, North and South Carolina were officially separated.
1712
_____ was intended to be a buffer between the British colonies and the hostile Spanish settlements in Florida and the enemy French in Louisiana.
Georgia
Georgia was last colony founded in ___
1733