Queen Elizabeth I

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Walter Raleigh

Philip II / Spanish Armada (1588)

English "enclosure" of cropland

Laws of "primogeniture"

Joint-stock companies

Virginia Company of London

"Charter" of the Virginia Company

Jamestown, Virginia (1607)

Captain John Smith

Pocahontas

John Rolfe

Lord De La Warr

Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1614, 1644)

House of Burgesses (1619)

Lord Baltimore (1634)

Maryland "Act of Toleration" (1649)

Barbados Slave Code

Charles II / Restoration (1660)

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia/James Oglethorpe (1733)

Iroquois Confederacy