English Colonization
What were the motivations that
pushed England into the New World?
Protestant Reformation
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Holy Roman Catholic Church
Martin Luther and Challengers
95 Theses: Faith and Indulgences
Henry VIII and John Calvin
Spain and The Counter Reformation
Religious Wars
England & Rise of Nation State
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Historical Setting
War of the Roses
Tudor Dynasty: Henry VII & Exploration
Henry VIII and schism
Bloody Mary and Parliament
Reign of Elizabeth: Roanoake
The Stuarts: James I
Virginia
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Joint Stock Enterprise: London Merchants
Charters, 1606-07
Jamestown & Captain John Smith
Powhatan Confederacy
Starvation and Survival: Tobacco
Labor Shortage: Servitude Questions
House of Burgesses and Slavery
Chesapeake Setting
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Tidewater Elite
George Calvert and Maryland
Act of Toleration
Monocultural Orientation
Population Expansion & Instability
Bacon’s Rebellion
Westward Expansion
New England
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The Separatists
Plymouth Setting
Puritans in England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Zion and City on Hill
Theocratic Orientation
Pre destination
The English Civil War
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Parliament and past precedent
Divine Right Monarch
Rights of the people
Clash: Roundheads and Cavaliers
Cromwell and the Republic
Wars of Empire
Restoration Colonies
Carolinas
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The Royal African Company
Transplanting Slaves via West Indies
Indigo, Rice, Cattle
Charlestown
North and South
Scot-Irish
Pennsylvania
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Society of Friends: Quakers
William Penn
Promotional Skills
Indian Relations
Philadelphia
Other Colonies from Penn
Germantown Protest: 1688
New York
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The Dutch Experience
Cosmopolitan Society
Anglo Dutch War
The Duke of York
Colonial Economy
Government and Discontent
Glorious Revolution
Columbian Exchange
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What were the consequences?
Biological
Environmental
Slavery
Ongoing Reassessments