Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
Identification: People & Terms
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Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake
Sea Dogs
Sir Walter Raleigh
Spanish Armada
Primogeniture
Joint stock company
Virginia Company of
London
Charter of the
Virginia Company
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Kings James I
Jamestown
John Smith
Powhatan / Powhatan
Confederacy
Pocahontas
Lord De La Warr
Anglo-Powhatan War of
1614
Second Anglo-Powhatan
War of 1644
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John Rolfe
Tobacco
House of Burgesses
Lord Baltimore
Indentured servants
Act of Toleration
Rice
Barbados Slave Code of
1661
James Oglethorpe
Iroquois Confederacy
Chapter 2 Focus Questions:
1. By 1600, what was the status of the Spanish and the English with respect to exploration and
colonization?
2. What were the England’s motives for colonization?
3. What were the goals of the Jamestown colonists?
4. What problems existed with the Jamestown settlement?
5. Describe De La Warr’s tactics and their impact on Anglo-Powhatan relations?
6. Why did the Powhatan-Anglo relationship develop so differently from the native-Spanish
relationship?
7. What problems did James I have with Virginia?
8. What kind of a colony did Lord Baltimore envision? What actually developed?
9. What was significant about Maryland’s religious laws?
10. How were tobacco and sugar cane farming different? Why did smaller English farmers move to
Carolina?
11. What did the Lord Proprietors hope to use the Carolina land for?
12. How was the Carolina culture and development similar to Barbados?
13. What was the Carolinian relationship with the Savannah Indians? Why did it deteriorate?
14. What were the characteristics of people who settled North Carolina?
15. Why was Georgia created?
16. What were the strongest commonalities of the plantation colonies?