Colonists decided to settle North America for a variety of reasons including religious freedom, opportunities, land, exile, and to escape the tyranny of English royalty. Although the settlement in Jamestown wasn 't the first attempt at colonization in the new world for England it was the first successful colony. The settlers in Jamestown were funded by the Virginia Company to create and colonize a civilization. The Virginia Company was an opportunity for people to explore the new world funded by wealthy men, who were hoping to make a profit off the new land. Early in the process of colonization there was a high death rate among the settlers, because of unknown diseases and the scarceness of supplies such as food. Since the Jamestown colonists
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They were on the search for religious freedom. Not the kind of religious freedom that meant everyone could believe in whatever they wanted. No, the Plymouth settlers did not want that at all. Infact when they went to the Netherlands first to escape the English 's corruption of the church, they were appalled at the behavior of the Dutch. People worshipping gods of nature? Ridiculous, or that 's how the Pilgrims saw it anyway. The strict Separatists could not allow their children to run amuck in the Netherlands. So they packed up and sought out the New World, a place where they could be separate from the church of England, but not around the heathens of the Netherlands. Although the Pilgrims planned on joining the Jamestown colony their ships swung off course and they ended up at plymouth rock and then they decided to make their own colony. SInce they arrived in the middle of winter the Pilgrims really struggled to stay warm and fed, after the winter ended half the Pilgrims had died. They all would have died if they wouldn 't have met an Indian named Squanto, who happened to speak English. Squanto 's tribe taught the Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and survive the next
They were on the search for religious freedom. Not the kind of religious freedom that meant everyone could believe in whatever they wanted. No, the Plymouth settlers did not want that at all. Infact when they went to the Netherlands first to escape the English 's corruption of the church, they were appalled at the behavior of the Dutch. People worshipping gods of nature? Ridiculous, or that 's how the Pilgrims saw it anyway. The strict Separatists could not allow their children to run amuck in the Netherlands. So they packed up and sought out the New World, a place where they could be separate from the church of England, but not around the heathens of the Netherlands. Although the Pilgrims planned on joining the Jamestown colony their ships swung off course and they ended up at plymouth rock and then they decided to make their own colony. SInce they arrived in the middle of winter the Pilgrims really struggled to stay warm and fed, after the winter ended half the Pilgrims had died. They all would have died if they wouldn 't have met an Indian named Squanto, who happened to speak English. Squanto 's tribe taught the Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and survive the next