Queen Elizabeth Chapter 1 Summary

One important person mentioned in this chapter is Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth was born September 7th 1533 in Palace of Placentia in England, and died March 24th 1603 in Richmond Palace England. Queen Elizabeth was also sometimes called “The Virgin Queen” or “Good Queen Bess”, as she was also the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Queen Elizabeth’s half brother Edward VI, died in 1533, giving the crown to Lady Jane Grey and became Queen by setting out rule by good counsel. Queen Elizabeth encouraged English buccaneers “...to promote the twin goals of Protestantism and plunder by seizing Spanish treasure ships and raiding Spanish settlements…” (26). Sir Walter Raleigh set up an expedition that landed on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in

This event changed the social and economic way of life. “Its population was mushrooming, from some 3 million people in 1550 to about 4 million in 1600” (27). In the countryside, landlords were enclosing croplands for sheep grazing and forcing smaller farmers off the land. The woolen districts of eastern and western england supplied many immigrants to America. The Economic depression hit the woolen trade in late 1500s, and many farmers were unemployed, and ended u as beggars. This event changed the lives of the English, and alarmed the contemporaries. This depression alarmed England and still have a surplus population. Overall, this depression alarmed those from England, and helped them to replenish their

This picture is illustrates a sugar mill in Brazil, by Frans Post. Fras Post was born on November 17 in 1612 in Haarlem and died on February 17 of 1680 in Haarlem. Frans Janszoon Post was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of both North and South America. This rich crop required extensive planting and land clearing. “The cane stalks yielded their sugar only after an elaborate process of refining in a sugar mill” (34). Sugar became a way for constant income, and created a capital-intensive business, as only wealthy growers who could invest would