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Began when Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church. Catholics battled Protestants for decades, and the religious balance of power seesawed.
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Protestantism became dominant and rivalry with Catholic Spain intensified
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The English crown confiscated Catholic Irish lands and "planted" them with new Protestant landlords from Scotland and England. This policy also planted the seeds of the centuries-old religious conflicts that persisit in Ireland to the present day.
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This pathetic English failure at colonization contrasted embarrassingly with the glories of the Spanish Empire, whose profits were fabulously enriching Spain.
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This defeat dampened Spain's fighting spirit and helped ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic. It started England on its way to becoming master of the world oceans - a fact enormously important to the American people.
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Proved the oppurtunity for English colonization
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Jamestown was named in honor of King James I
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Tobacco later becomes the main source of income for the colonies, as well as the stability of the ecomony
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Peace settlement ended the war by sealing the marriage of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe
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The simple commercial transaction planted the seeds of the North American slave trade
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The first miniature parliament to be established in the Americas
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James I then becomes hostile to Virginia and revoked the charter, thus making VIrginia a royal colony directly under his control
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Maryland becomes a Catholic haven, Lord Baltimore permeritted freedom of worship in his colony
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Labor needed to run mills and work in fields of the sugar plantations, more than a quarter of a million Africans were imported. This led to Barbados slave code
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Indians made one last effort to dislodge the Virginians. The indians were defeated which led to Peace Treaty 1646, which effectively banished the Chesapeake Indians from the white areas. This was the origin of the later reservation system.
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Guarenteed toleration to all Chrsitians, but decreed the death penalty on those who denied the devinity of Jesus such as Jews or Atheist
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Europe makes a religious change from Catholic to a strict Protestant leadership. Cromwell ruled for a decade and then Charles the II took over the throne
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He took even more royal involvement in the colonies
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Denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves and gave masters virtually complete control over their laborers. Included the right to inflict severe punihsment for even the smallest infractions
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Named after Charles II. Charles II granted to eight of his court favorites the Lord Proprietors and and expanse of wilderness stretchy across the continent to the Pacific. Also established a vigorous slave trade in Carolina itself
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Tuscarora Indians fell upon the fledging settlement at Newbern in 1711. North Carolinians armored by their brothers form the south retaliated by crushing the indians, selling hundreds of them into slavery and leaving the survivors to wander northward to seek the protection of the Iroquois.Eventually, the Tuscarora Indians became the SIxth Nation of the Iroquois Confederation.
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North Carolina had a strong resistance to authority, and were known for being irreligious and hospitable to pirates. North Carolina was inhabitated by the less wealthy persons of the Carolinas. After the official seperation, North Carolina did not at first import large numbers of slaves, and was not plantation based but more small farm oriented. However, North Carolina did share South Carolinas constant battles with the native indians.
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It was four years after the Tuscarora War. It defeated and despersed the Yamasee Indians, virtually all the coastal indian tribes in the southern colonies had been utterly devastated by about 1720.
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Created by English crown to serve as a buffer state. It would protect the more valuable Carolinas against vengful Spanish from Florida and against the hostile french. It was named after King George II
