Migration

• Sir Walter Raleigh


  English explorer and writer
• Sir Walter Raleigh's achievements

  • Attempted to find Dorado
  • Founded Roanoke
• Spanish Armanda 1588
• Liberty, fraternity, egality
• Indian trade goods 1600-1750

  • Silk
  • Indigo
  • Tea
  • Cotton
  • Opium
  • Spices
• INDIAN MUTINY 1857 : Enfield rifles lined with pork + beef fat
• Control of India passed to Queen Victoria, as Empress
• Robert Clive led the EIC's army to fight the Battle of Plassey, that defeated Newab of Bengal, making Warren Hastings Govenor General of Bengal +India
• Boston Tea Party


  1774
• Americans dumped £11,000 tea into the Sea
• 56 American leaders of the colonies met in Philadelphia to make a plan (George Washington, Ben Franklin)


  1974
• They declared war on British
• Declaration of independence
• New Plymouth, Massachusetts


  1621
• New Plymouth was soon profitable from selling cod

  1620-91
• 20,000 Puritans arrived


  1629-40
• Squanto taught how to farm corn (native leader)
• Became a centre of trade
• Local Wampanoag helped 1621 first Thanksgiving
• Harsh winters, disease and poor soil caused over half to die
• Population increase
• Conflict with native Americans
• Jamestown, Virginia


  1607
• 1612 John Rolfe made profit off crops + tobacco
• 1613 Rolfe married Pocahontas
• Relations with natives improved, less conflicts
• New laws, plantations set up

  1619
• Became a royal colony


  1624
• By 1699, 60,000 settlers +6000 enslaved
• Attacks from Powhatan tribe
• Starvation, cannibalism spread
• Crops died, malaria spread. Climate made it hard to farm
• Women + indentured servants transported from UK, worked in fields + for sexual+ physical abuse
• Printing press
• Puritans come due to persecution in England
• Britain taxed tea, and Navigation Act. America made no profit
• Britain couldn't afford war, colonies weren't worth it
• Benjamin Franklin spoke out against Stamp Act, Anti-British Pamphlets, alliance with France
• Britain interfered in Americans' lives + controlled trade
• Unfair taxes 'Stamp Act' 1765 on tea, paper