History 105 Exam 1: TAMU Lenihan (2023/2024) Rated A

History 105 Exam 1: TAMU Lenihan (2023/2024) Rated A Spain First conquerors of North America France Established post in Quebec. They find animal pelts, fishing England Arrive later in 1607 with establishment of Jamestown. Why overseas? expanding trade and commerce but found rich resources instead. Christopher Columbus He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India. Leif Ericson Viking who was the first European to visit America Roanoke Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them. What England found in America tobacco,, a high demand cash crop in England grew in America in abundance. It was very labor intensive How Native Americans came to the Americas Came nomadically from Asia during Ice Age. About 7 million natives in America during time of discovery. Colombus Exchange English got land and Natives died to disease, war, and lost cultural values. European and Natives (marriage) French and Spanish intermarried thus successfully evangelizing while English were arrogant with the natives. Equiano, Olaudah author & former slave who published an autobiography which is one of the most important insights into slavery Jamestown (1607) first permanent English colony in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607 - 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts - Initially, the settlers spent too much time trying to find gold and neglected to prepare for the winter. The "Starving Time" of 1609-10 saw 80% of the settlers die. Only after several more shipments of immigrants and the widespread adoption of TOBACCO cultivation did the colony begin to thrive. Company origins Colonizing for a profit Headright system in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Virginia Indentured Servants Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years Company Rule Expansion of British control () in which they created the Indian Civil Service, estabished an army of Indians known as seypoys, established colonial economic policies, and expanded territory through direct coquest and indirect rule. House of Burgesses This was the first elected legislature in the colonies and was composed of two representatives from each plantation. The representatives