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Colonial America chapter 2 to 6

By Amir A.Tamaddon
  • 1530

    Henry VIII breaks up with the Roman Catholic Church

    Launching of the English Protestant Reformation
  • 1558

    Protestant Elizabeth Ascendance to English throne

    After that the Protestantism became dominant in England, and rivalry with Catholic Spain intensified
  • 1570

    1570s and 1580s Elizabethan suppression of Irish rebellion

    Effects: 1585 to 1603 Anglo-Spanish and Irish War
    Development of the “‘savage’ native” contempt by English soldiers
    Confiscation Of Irish lands and appointing English and Scottish landlords in Ireland

  • First English Attemt for colonization: Sir Hemphry Gilbert

    In New foundland it collapsed because of Gilbert’s death

  • Reanoke Colony : The first But unfortunate

    Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585
    Swallowed by wilderness
  • Period: to

    Nine years’ war

    War between Elizabethan England and Spain and Irish lords’ Confederation
    Effects: Treaty of Mellifont 1603

  • Spanish Armada and “Protestant wind”

    Philip II Of Spain tried to invade England with an “invincible Armada”
    Reason of defeat: overladenness and cumbersomeness Of Spanish Ships and maneuvarbleness and swiftness Of English navy
    Effects on Spain : Start point of the End Of Spanish glory as they Holland secured it’s independence during the Eighty years’ war, and as they started to lose their grasp on Spanish Caribbean.
    Importance and Effects on England :