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Spanish Exploration and
Colonization
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Hernan Cortez
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Fransisco Pizarro
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English Colonization
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Key Questions
• What were the driving causes behindEnglish colonization
• !id the colonists succeed in theiroriginal ob"ectives
• What was the end result o# earlyEnglish colonization What legaciesdid it leave behind
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Elizabeth $
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Sir Walter %aleigh
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%oano&e Colony
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'a(es $
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)irginia Co(pany
• $nvestors would invest #or *ve years+
• ,#ter *ve years- the investors would(eet to discuss whether or not tocontinue the colony+
• ./ 0ay .123 'a(estown #ounded+
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Early Proble(s
• Poor location+
• PowhatanCon#ederacy+
• Poor choice in *rstcolonists+
• Early governance+
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'ohn S(ith
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Starving 4i(e
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Charter o# .125
• Colonists could now buy into the)irginia Co(pany+
• )irginia Co(pany would invest #oranother 3 years+
• 6ew govern(ent+ 7overnor o#)irginia appointed with dictator li&e
powers+
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8ater %e#or(s
• Headright Syste(9.1.:;
• 7eneral ,sse(bly
– 7overnor – Council
– House o#
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'ohn %ol#e
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.1== 0assacre
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Slavery and s%ebellion
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)irginia Conclusions
• )irginia started out as a businessventure- but ulti(ately #ailed+
• 4he colony did succeed at giving
England a #oothold in 6orth ,(erica+
• 4he colony established the *rst #or( o#representative govern(ent+
• , speci*c type o# slavery would beused in )irginia and the rest o# thecolonies a#ter s %ebellion+
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0assachusetts
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'ohn Calvin
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Henry )$$ and English%e#or(ation
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Separatists 9Pilgri(s;
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6on?Separatists 9Puritans;
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0assachusetts
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'ohn Winthrop and @City ona HillA
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%oger Willia(s
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,nn Hutchinson
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English Civil War
Charles $$ Bliver Cro(well
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Sale( Witch 4rials
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Puritan 8egacy
• Four 6ew England Colonies0assachusetts- Connecticut- 6ewHa(pshire- and %hode $sland+
• Education Harvard Dniversity
• Separation o# Church and State
• Puritan Wor& Ethic and Econo(ics
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Puritan Conclusions
• 4he 0assachusetts
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Early English Colonization
Conclusions
• Foothold in 6orth ,(ericaEstablished by the English+
• Creation o# ,(erican $ndividualis(+
• Econo(ic precedents set+
• $nuence o# 0assachusetts and)irginia on the Dnited States+