The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625

Chapter 2

Portugal

Involvement in Africa

The search for gold

Introduction to the slave trade

New Slavery

Early Exploration

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Christopher Columbus

Sailing West

Reasons?

A new world?

Other major explorers?

Early Exploration

God, Gold, and Glory!!!!!

Which one is the most important to the explorers?

Reasons Simplified

Amerigo Vespucci

Charting new territory

Conquistadores

“Indian” slaves

Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs

Francisco Pizaaro and the Incas

Effects of the Spanish on the Natives

Spanish Conquerors

Ruling the Aztecs

The Encomienda System

Encomenderos

New Rules

A Biological Encounter

Changes in the population

Peninsulares

Criollos

Mestizos

Mulattos

The Columbian Exchange

Florida

Texas

New Mexico

California

Mexico

Spanish Territory

Late 1500s

St Lawrence Valley

South Carolina (Huguenots)

Florida

Quebec

Louisiana

Fur Traders

The French get in the game

The French were also influenced by God, Gold, and Glory…….fur became the french “gold”.

Late 1500s

Problems between Spain and England

Roanoke (1585)

England

Jamestown

The Virginia Company

Joint Stock Company

John Smith

The “Headright” System

Indentured Servants

England

Royal – A colony governed directly by a king through an appointed governor.

Proprietary – colonies granted to a group of private owners for development.

Charter Colonies – colonies to which the

crown granted a charter for the purpose of establishing a government. Purpose is to make a profit.

England’s 3 types of colonies

The House of Burgesses (1619)

Representative Government

King James revoked the Charter

Jamestown becomes a royal colony (1624)

England

The Pilgrims (1620)

The Mayflower

Religious Reasons not freedom

New Jurisdiction

The Mayflower Compact

England

More Puritans

1630s

Self governing farm community

“City on a hill”

Salem Witch Trials

Religious tolerance

England

Workbook Chapter 2:Multiple Choice 1-10

Short Answer 3 and 5Essay number 2

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