Chesapeake Colonies

John Smith was born in 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. He eventually made his way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. In his early life, John decided on a life of combat and served with the English Army abroad. He worked as a soldier for hire. Smith eventually embarked on a campaign with the Turks in Hungary. There he was captured and enslaved. He was sent to what is now Istanbul and served a kind-hearted mistress who did not want Smith to be enslaved. She sent him…

New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, Chesapeake, and the Southern Colonies. The colonies that made up the New England region were “New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island” (Olson-Raymer).…

century at the time of English exploration. The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World. It was located in what was then called Virginia, named in honor of England's ruling monarch and "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth 1. The new colonists wisely resolved to cultivate the friendship of the…

Due to this decision it helped American in a very big way. It cleared a way for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. So that they can discover things like a route for a water way , just for the American colonies . Also, it help double the size of the United States, making a great expansion for the colonies to settle. Which is great because that’s what people wanted , to expand the territory . It’s good for farmers so they can plant and due other things. The Monroe Doctrine was issued in 1823 , to…

established two major colonies: New England, a region in the northeast, and Virginia, which was part of the Chesapeake region. During the 1630s, the idea of colonization in both Virginia and New England seemed bleak, yet by 1700, New England and Virginia were respectively prosperous colonies, with populations substantially larger than they had been within that same century (Taylor 170) The disparity between the New England and Virginia settlements by 1700 stems from the colonies’ distinct…

In the first half of the 17th century, the primary labor source in the Chesapeake region was indentured servitude. Many poor whites, who had previously been laborers in the English working class, came to America as indentured servants. In addition to poor whites, many Africans were indentured servants. In these early years, both African and white indentured servants were treated equally. Although the life of an indentured servant was typically one of hard labor and mistreatment, all indentured…

I held my breathe and gave out a sigh hopping the next hours to Virginia to our hotel will be better. I found myself doodling penguins and groundhogs in my journal, until I saw we were driving on one of the biggest bridges I have ever seen the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. That bridge always freaked me out, because of the such small walls. I hated to look at the sea sickening water below us. “Hey dad, I hope we don’t fall off!!” I yelled loudly. My dad scolded me on how we were suppose to be quite on…

prisoners, orphans, beggars, and abductees were taken to British colonies without their consent. In addition, about 75% of the settlers from the Chesapeake area in the 1600s were indentured servants. Also, slaves were transferred to North America to mainly work the up and coming crops in the southern colonies (tobacco, rice, indigo, etc.). Correspondingly, by the late seventeenth century about twenty-five thousand slaves were in the British colonies. In essence, countless people traveled to…

The Lost Colony To me the lost colony basically set up for doom all the way from the beginning, they were already struggling settling in a new place with barley any resources. Something was going to eventually happen to them. Even though no one really knows what really happen to them somehow they all disappeared or there was no trace of what happened to the Lost colony. The lost colony was made up men, women, and children that came to Roanoke island with the permission from the queen at that…

1607-1660 played a major role in American history as it highlights English colonization, its main contours, Chesapeake’s overcome, the development of Virginia and Maryland, and lastly the English civil war effect on the colonies in America. It had started on April 26th 1607 where three ships entered the shore from England now as Cape Henry. They later inclined to settle sixty miles inland on the James River protecting themselves from Spaniard war ships at the time of stay where Jamestown was…