AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enclosure, Protestantism
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There is a social cast within england that isn"t a part of the aristocracy or a part of the wealthy class. England has an overpopulation problem under elizabeth the fourth. The english had a very powerful developing merchant class. Wealth no longer measured in land, it is measured in gold and silver. Feel rightly so that they already populate ireland. The colonists in roanoke wanted to go home. During the 1590"s another attempted to populate roanoke. Being taken away, being made into more productive agricultural farm. Go to the new world with some potential. That potential is very alluring for some englishmen. The obstacles the colonists faced and overcame when coming to the new world is a man can get liberty when he can get his own land. 200 initial colonists being funded by the london co. Indentured servants are the ones that went over to the new world. For every head of the family, their family gets 50 acres.
