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What Are The Effects Of Colonial England On The Eve Of Empire
* Queen Elizabeth daughter of Henry 8 and Anne Berlin * Protestant but partly protestant * Defeated Spanish armada * England on the Eve of Empire England Eve of Empire * England Population growing rapidly 1550 3.5 mil, 1600 4 mil * Economic Depression in wool trade. * Enclosure forcing people off land * Unemployment raising * People leaving countryside to go to cities * Primogeniture- oldest son gets everything and chooses what to do with it * Because of law younger sons would look elsewhere for fortune * Younger sons formed stock companies that enabled them to go out and colonize * Spain had found gold, farmer needed to return to farming …show more content…
Colonizing the Carolinas * Civil War in England momentarily stopped colonization while Oliver Cromwell ruled * When Charles II came to power colonization restored with Carolina being named after him * Carolina was officially formed in 1670 by 8 nobles * Carolina prospered by developing close economic ties with flourishing sugar islands of the West Indies * Wanted to set up trade with West Indies * Carolina adopted the slave code and also enslaved and traded Indians from the

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