HIS-1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Squanto, Cash Crop, Elizabethan Religious Settlement
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Not capitalism: according to sir william keith, all products of the colonies must first go to. England before they can be traded anywhere else: the colonies cannot place any tax on goods traded from europe. Staking claims in america: giovanni verrazzano (1524) claims america for france, john cabot (1497) claims america for england. Raleigh"s failed colony: roanoke island: sir walter raleigh, the lost colony: land in 1587, expedition led by john white who sails back to. England for supplies and gets stuck there for three years and returns to america to find everyone gone: croatan mark left on tree, never found the colony. Defeat of the spanish armada (1588: war between england and spain that prevented white from being able to return to america, spanish navy not as skilled as the english navy, fire ships. Virginia: jamestown: virginia company leaves england in 1606.
