Jamestown

Immigration. I think immigrate is one of the biggest challenges in the United States today. Immigration started in the 1500s led by the Spanish and French, establishing settlement. Until 1607, the English founded their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout history many has stayed and left. But between 1880-1920, the time of industrialization and urbanization, America received more than 20 million immigrants. With so many immigrants, nobody thought they will go away until…

What is slavery and Indentured Servitude? Indentured servitude was a system where young people got into the New World by working for a manager for how many ever years the owners wanted. It was used a lot in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America. They signed an indentured agreement which meant that he was using money from his owner for food, water, and shelter. Then they would repay them by doing labor for a set period of time. Indentured servants that were good at doing…

Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. He was the only surviving child of Veronica “Fanny” Snavely and Henry H. Hershey. The details on his parents separation are cloudy, but it’s largely believed that Fanny, the daughter of Mennonite Clergyman, had grown tired of her husband’s failures. Milton Hershey was the founder of the Hershey milk chocolate bar. When he was younger he had been a candy making and candy selling master.The 14-year-old Hershey turned…

The English in Jamestown, Virginia had the appalling fortunes of settling about on top of the Powhatan Indian country, which was the most grounded, and most sorted out Indian country in the east of North America. Jamestown pioneers were likewise exceptionally arrive hungry on the grounds that they rapidly figured out they could profit developing tobacco in their Virginia…

Maya contributions to astronomy influenced life in colonial America. The Maya were extremely talented astronomers who believed manifestations of the gods came in visible form through celestial bodies and their movements. Priests and other Maya astronomers studied the motion of these celestial bodies, believing they could see the gods walk across the sky. They observed and recorded the movements of the stars and planets to collect these celestial signs that foreshadowed disasters, destinies of…

The Colonies were the start of the Americas. The Colonists actions decided the fate of their settlement. Whatever they did, how they treated the Native americans, how they developed their economy and government determined the outcome of their settlement. There are different management styles that helped the colonies prosper, or caused them to fail. They’re government, economy, population push and pull factors, religious tolerance and labor needed to be managed properly in order for success.…

When you open up a book and read about the Lewis and Clark expedition, it is likely that you are going to read about a woman named Sacagawea. But who exactly was Sacagawea? Uncovering and finding new discoveries have always served as a course of attraction for the travelers of the world. For instance John Smith adventurous Englishman who longed to see the world, but he probably never imagined that he would become famous for helping save a new colony. Many explorers trailed from all walks of life…

Slavery is one of the most influential events that helped define the character of America. It has affected the constitutions, convicitons and conscious decisions of Americans from its initial appearance in the British colonies to the influences in present day American society. While wealth and prosperity birthed the beginning of slavery, and a series of conflict defined its death, the ripples of its existence can still be felt in modern day America. In regards to the understanding of the origin…

During the 18th and 19th century, the United States was experiencing rapid expansion and growth. The purchases of a wide expanses of land, like the Louisiana Purchase, allowed for the territorial expansion of the United States. This allowed presidents after Thomas Jefferson, who spearheaded western expansion, to follow suit with the idea of expansionism.1 While many other treaties and purchases helped with America’s growth, other factors also played into American territorial expansion. The very…

1) England’s Imperial Strings a) In 1600, North America was still not explored, but contained some Europeans already i) 1610 – Spanish initiated Santa Fe ii) 1608 – French initiated Quebec iii) 1607 – English initiated Jamestown, Virginia b) English to competes with the Spanish Empire i) In 1530s, King Henry VII conflict with Roman Catholic Church led to religious disputes, causing the English Protestant Reformation ii) Power was unbalanced until Protestant Elizabeth took power and…