HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Local Natives, Powhatan, Joint-Stock Company
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Terms: john cabot, humphrey gilbert, walter raleigh, john rolfe, protestant. **two british colonies emerge, but they are very different: virginia tied to tobacco, structured, hierarchal; massachusetts don"t want to return to england, very religious: early expeditions: Britain, influenced by spanish success, financed an expedition led by john. Cabot using a northern route across the atlantic. Cabot leaves may 20th, 1497 lands on june 24th, 1497, at what he named. Discovers large passage he assumes to go to china (actually the st. lawrence. Cabot returns to england to tell of the discovery and is told to sail back next summer. Cabot"s return voyage is lost at sea and british interest elapses for almost a century: the lost colony of roanoke: 1583, sir humphrey gilbert leads five ships which land in newfoundland. They decide the climate is too inhospitable and abandon the colony (return to.
