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Ch. 2 Notes
The Rise of the Atlantic World: 1400-1625
WHY EXPLORATIONS FROM EUROPEANS?
WHAT MADE EXPLORATION A REALITY?
PORTUGAL leads the way
Why?
Portuguese Exploration:
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1487 – Bartholomew Diaz
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1498 – Vasco da Gama
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1500 – Pedro Cabral
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Amerigo Vespucci
Effects of Portuguese explorations:
SPANISH EXPLORATION
1492 – Christopher COLUMBUS
TREATY OF TORDESILLAS – 1494
1513 – Vasco Nunez de BALBOA
Ponce DE LEON
1519 - Ferdinand MAGELLAN
Hernan CORTES
1528 – Panfilio de NARVAEZ
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1539 – Hernando de SOTO
1539 – Priest Marcos de NIZA
1540 – Francisco Vasquez de CORONADO
1565 – Spain does it first!
1598 – Spain does it again…
FRENCH EXPLORATION
1534 – Jacques CARTIER
1564 – French HUGUENOTS (Calvinists)
ENGLAND
1577 - Sir Francis DRAKE
NEW FRANCE
1608 – Samuel de CHAMPLAIN
1637 – Jacques MARQUETTE –
1682 – Sieur de LA SALLE
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NEW NETHERLANDS
1609 – Henry HUDSON
1624 – Holland establishes trade outposts on Manhattan Island & Albany
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PATROON system
ENGLAND & COLONIZATION
1576 – Martin FORBISHER
1578 – Sir Humphrey GILBERT
1584 – Sir Walter RALEIGH
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July 1585 - ROANOKE ISLAND #1
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July 1587 – ROANOKE ISLAND #2
VIRGINIA
1.
1607 - Virginia Company of Plymouth – Maine to the Potomac River (Washington DC)
2.
1607 - Virginia Company of London – Cape Fear (coast of NC) to Hudson River
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PROBLEMS AT JAMESTOWN
1608 – John SMITH
1611 – Thomas HALE
1612 – John ROLFE
1617
Sir SANDYS plan:
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Headright –
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Quitrent -
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Give settlers a voice in management of the colony:
HOUSE OF BERGESSES
1619
INDENTURED SERVENTS
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1624
GREAT MIGRATION (1620 – 1640)
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Nov. 1620 - Mayflower Compact
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1620 - Plymouth Colony
PLYMOUTHS Contributions:
WHY? Great Migration
Contributions of European countries to the New World
SPAIN:
FRANCE:
ENGLAND: