Chapter 3, Section 1
Early English Settlements
The Spanish Armada
rivals
• Spain & England became major _________________
Religion
– _____________________
– Trading rivalries
• Sir Frances Drake, English adventurer
Spanish ships
– Attacked ____________
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on his own ship after
– _____________
becoming the first Englishman to circumnavigate the earth
angered King Phillip II
– Knight ship __________
• 1588- War begins!
– King Phillip II sends Spanish Armada, most powerful navy in
England to install _______________
Catholic
the world, to attack ____________
monarch
Elizabeth I rightful queen
– Did not consider ________________
The Spanish Armada
• 132 ships; 30,000 troops; 2,400 guns
• England’s ships _____________
& faster; outmaneuvered
smaller
•
•
Spanish ships
retreated
Spanish Armada __________________
to Scotland to
regroup
Huge storm destroys half the Spanish fleet
• GREAT Story, but WHY does it matter?!?!?!!?!? 
• End of Spain’s _______________,
leads to England’s rise in
dominance
power
• England begins to ___________________________________
establish settlements in the New World
The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island
• England is trying to establish a
settlement in North America.
Gilbert in 1578, then
• Sir Humphrey _________
1583
– Never found a place to make a
settlement
• Sir Walter _____________
(Humphrey
Raleigh
Gilbert’s half-brother) in 1585
– This attempt failed
– All 100 men returned
The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island
• Second Attempt (pg. 59)
– 1587
– 91 men, 17 women and 9
children
White
• Led by John ____________
• Virgina Dare
English child
– First _________________
born in America
_____________________
• White went to England to
•
•
•
get _____________
supplies
Delayed for 3 years by
Spain
war with _______
Croatoan
The ________
Lost Colony
Jamestown
• First _________________
permanent
•
•
English
_____________
settlement
1607
___________
144 settlers
– 40 died on the trip
• Built a fort on the James
•
River
Very difficult at first
–
–
–
–
–
Land was swampy
Water contaminated
No good farmland
Malaria
Most settlers too proud or lazy to
work
Jamestown
Jamestown
• Common __________
System
Store
– All food placed in a common
store house
– Socialism
gold
• Looking for ___________
rather
than growing food
• Only ______
38 remaining in
January 1608
Smith
• John _________
work
– Any who would not ________
eat
would not ________
– II Thessalonians 3:10
– _____________
the colony
Saved
– Injured and forced to return to
_____________
in 1609
England
The Starving Time
• Winter 1609-1610
• Smith replaced by Lord De La Warr
– Strict rule
• Settlers forced to remain inside fort because of
•
•
•
•
________________________
Native American attacks
drought
Most severe _____________
in 770 years
Ate cats, dogs, horses, rats, snakes, and even
reports of cannibalism
Of 300, only _________survived
60
supply ship
Prepared to leave, but __________________
arrived and they stayed
Jamestown Survives
• John Rolfe saves the colony
•
•
•
•
by introducing a less bitter
type of _____________
tobacco
Jamestown begins to
prosper
___________
Rolfe marries Pocahontas,
daughter of Chief Powhatan
She becomes a Christian
and changes her name to
Rebecca
They move to England
where Pocahontas dies at
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Virginia’s Government
• 1619
• House of Burgesses
– Two
representatives
called
burgesses from
____________
each town
representative
• First _______________
government in
America
• Set precedent for
later governments