The American Pageant Chapter 2 Summary
The American Pageant Chapter 2 Notes/Summary:
The Planting of English America
England’s Imperial Stirrings:
-17th century showed that European crops/livestock had altered the landscape of the Americas
-New diseases and conquests led by Europeans had eliminated many native tribes, and killed many natives. Several hundred thousand Africans were brought from Africa as slaves by Europeans, and forced to work in Caribbean and South American plantations (primarily sugar plantations).
-Going from New Mexico and southward, the Americas were controlled almost entirely by Spain.
-North America itself, however, was largely unclaimed until the 1600’s.
-Three European nations had begun to make claims in North America during the 1600’s. These were the Spanish who had Santa Fe (the southern …show more content…
-Economic depression forced many people into lives of poverty, causing contemporaries to conclude that England had too large of a population.
England Plants the Jamestown Seedling:
- Virginia Company received a charter from King James in 1606 to make a settlement in the New World. Such joint-stock companies usually did not exist long, as stockholders invested hopes to form the company, turn a profit, and then quickly sell for profit a few years later. The charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed settlers the same rights as Englishmen in Britain.
-5/24/1607, roughly 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown. Forty of the colonists died along the way. Once they arrived, a multitude of problems emerged including…
1: Jamestown was based in a swampy environment, which meant the colonists had access to poor drinking water. Mosquitoes in the area were also a problem, causing malaria and yellow fever to spread.
2: Men wasted time looking for gold rather than doing useful tasks (digging wells, building shelter, planting crops)
3: There were zero women on the initial
The Planting of English America
England’s Imperial Stirrings:
-17th century showed that European crops/livestock had altered the landscape of the Americas
-New diseases and conquests led by Europeans had eliminated many native tribes, and killed many natives. Several hundred thousand Africans were brought from Africa as slaves by Europeans, and forced to work in Caribbean and South American plantations (primarily sugar plantations).
-Going from New Mexico and southward, the Americas were controlled almost entirely by Spain.
-North America itself, however, was largely unclaimed until the 1600’s.
-Three European nations had begun to make claims in North America during the 1600’s. These were the Spanish who had Santa Fe (the southern …show more content…
-Economic depression forced many people into lives of poverty, causing contemporaries to conclude that England had too large of a population.
England Plants the Jamestown Seedling:
- Virginia Company received a charter from King James in 1606 to make a settlement in the New World. Such joint-stock companies usually did not exist long, as stockholders invested hopes to form the company, turn a profit, and then quickly sell for profit a few years later. The charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed settlers the same rights as Englishmen in Britain.
-5/24/1607, roughly 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown. Forty of the colonists died along the way. Once they arrived, a multitude of problems emerged including…
1: Jamestown was based in a swampy environment, which meant the colonists had access to poor drinking water. Mosquitoes in the area were also a problem, causing malaria and yellow fever to spread.
2: Men wasted time looking for gold rather than doing useful tasks (digging wells, building shelter, planting crops)
3: There were zero women on the initial