HIST 2055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Puritans, Company Rule In India
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Background for english settlement: differs how from spanish pattern, difference in areas they settled, rather than incorporation (spanish) replacement (english) b. i. Part is nature of english society; part is excess population enclosure (private land owners fence in their land) b. i. 1. Wandering poor people moving from countryside to city b. i. 2. Those with money want to ship the poor to america or: english have no centralized empire. Everyone agrees that any colonies they find belong to the king a. ii. Not only don"t create overall bureaucracy, they use various ways to settle a. ii. 1. Company colonies/proprietary colonies settlement by: two overall patterns privatization. Initial settlements 1607, jamestown followed by new england b. i. b. ii. Over time, colonies tend to become more like and more involved in. Settling the chesapeake: virginia and maryland: a deadly company a. Goal: 17th century venture capitalists send 104 people to virginia and settle jamestown a. iii. Local chief, pouhattan, is in a position of trying to consolidate his power a. iii. 1.
