The document discusses the history of England's growing interest and involvement in North America between the 1500s-1600s, starting with privateers like Gilbert and Raleigh launching exploratory missions. It then covers the founding of Jamestown in 1607, its struggles and eventual success due to the cultivation of tobacco. The colony expanded and became a prosperous royal colony of England involved in tobacco plantation and the slave trade.
27. Church of England (Anglican Church)
The Pope would not allow him to divorce Queen Catherin, daughter of Isabella of Spain.
28. Henry had Parliament declare him the head of the Church in England, and divorced her.
The Reformation Changes England
29. Church of England
Henry’s Protestant Church
expropriated the money, killed
and destroyed much of the
Roman Catholic Church in
England.
The Reformation Changes England