Jamestown Settlement

took advantage of the natives’ skills, they traded weapons and horses for fur pelts. The English also focused on expanding their territory, thus, leading to conquering—with its growing population—neighboring territories. One example of English settlements expanding its territory would be the taking over of the Dutch’s New Netherland in 1664 and then renaming it New York. This occurred when the new king of England, Charles II came to thrown in 1660 and wanted to strengthen foreign trade and…

profited from this because it was in high demand and was settled in the region richest in natural resources.(Give Me Liberty pg 22-23) The French got disappointed when they first arrived had a much smaller population which opposed them for agricultural settlement, but relied on fur trade which they used for their trading posts. France’s fur trade was successful because they kept a good affection with the Indians(Give Me Liberty pg 37) unlike Spain and England,…

request, and so the colonists took action for themselves and murdered Indians in rebellion towards him under the lead of Nathaniel Bacon. Bacon formed an army of his own who supported his ideas and promises. Eventually, Bacon and his followers burnt Jamestown to the ground, leaving him as the ruler of Virginia. In efforts to avoid another rebellion as such, the colonists reduced taxes, banned the Indian protection policies,…

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that the Native Americans could assist the Europeans, by teaching them their ways of their own land. Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief, believed there could be peace between the two different kinds of people. Within the first years of settlement on Jamestown there was peace between the Indians and Europeans. Even though there was peace, the English colonization still affected the Native American societies, because of their drastic differences. Europeans brought diseases to the New…

Every child learns the phrase, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” in third grade. While catchy they do not learn to much more than that. Europe had only speculated what was to the West of their borders before any voyage was attempted. Spain, France, and Britain each offered something to the new world they wanted to give. Among their reasons trade and religion were the focal points. Being a predominantly Christian area, all European countries wanted to get away from Muslims. Their…

settlers sought to establish a sea to sea exploration and development of the West. Publishing Homestead Act and other such land grabs, the U.S. government inspired a procession of settlement from Savannah to San Francisco. In all of this, the incentive was the acquisition of land, all of the exploration, the settlement was pushed by the idea of personal property. To finally have something they could call their own and that thought drew them. Gone With the Wind, a widely praised art of literature…

Royal Colony: Was a type of colony that was under the jurisdiction of the crown of a royal country like England, France and Spain. In England’s case, a royal governor who carried out the instructions of the crown, which weren’t exactly commands to the governor, more like strong suggestions, ruled each of these types of colonies. The significance of the royal colony is that it brought the idea of micromanaging countries. This would later on make the United States have governors to govern their…

English agriculture was another contribution to the growing American identity of the mid-eighteenth century. In the early colonies of Virginia and New England, the colonists attempted to transplant the style of farming and husbandry with which they were familiar in England. "They brought with them farming techniques based on ownership and cultivation of land". "The colonists saw it as their birth-right if not their duty to tame the land and transform it into profitable, workable tracts."…

preeminent factor in agriculture, trade, and settler expansion in the British colonies in North America. When the colonists first arrived on the North American Continent in 1607, they established themselves in what they named Jamestown, the first official English settlement in Virginia. Virginia became a province in what was known as the Southern Colonies, along with Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Just north of these lied the Middle Colonies, which included Pennsylvania,…