Case Study: What Was The English Settlement Like At Jamestown
II. What was the English Settlement like at Jamestown?
It survived thanks to John Smith and the production of tobacco A. What cause the struggle English settlers in America?
The first settlement was almost destroyed by disease and starvation. 1. What did the English have to do to make colonization a business?
English were funded by joint-stock companies, which once the people had several investors, they obtained a charter or official permit. King James I granted a charter to the Virginia Company. Most stockholders would receive fourth-fifths of all gold and silver found. And the Virginia Company founded Jamestown 2. Why was the start disastrous?
At first, disease from the James River struck first. Hunger was right after it. …show more content…
It lasted a year, but food shortages, disease and heavy casualties wore down the Native’s resistance. King Phillip (Metacom) was shot in the head by a native that allied with the English (Afterwards the Puritans displayed Metcom’s head for 20 years at Plymouth). Although one-tenth of the colonial men of military age in New England were killed, a higher proportion of the total population than would be killed in either the American Revolution or Civil War in …show more content…
In 1621, the Dutch government granted the newly formed Dutch West India Company permission to colonize there and expand the thriving fur trade. New Amsterdam (now New York City), founded in 1625, became the capital of the colony. They took over New Sweden in 1655. 1. How was the colony diverse? X Do not study.
The Dutch company profited from fur trade, but not many people came so they let a variety of people in the colony. More Dutch, Germans, French, Scandinavians, and other Europeans settled the area. They also included Africans, free and enslaved. They were friendlier with the Natives, unlike the English. They traded them furs and the Dutch were smart enough not to anger the powerful Iroquois, however the Dutch did have fights with smaller tribes over land and trade rivalries. 2. How did the English takeover?
The English viewed it as separating the Northern and Southern colonies, in 1664, King Charles gave his brother James (Duke of York, later known as King James II) permission to drive out the Dutch. When they arrived in the harbor, the governor Peter Stuyvesant raised a call to arms. Severely outnumbered Peter surrendered. The Duke of York renamed it New York, and later gave land to two of his friends who made it New
It survived thanks to John Smith and the production of tobacco A. What cause the struggle English settlers in America?
The first settlement was almost destroyed by disease and starvation. 1. What did the English have to do to make colonization a business?
English were funded by joint-stock companies, which once the people had several investors, they obtained a charter or official permit. King James I granted a charter to the Virginia Company. Most stockholders would receive fourth-fifths of all gold and silver found. And the Virginia Company founded Jamestown 2. Why was the start disastrous?
At first, disease from the James River struck first. Hunger was right after it. …show more content…
It lasted a year, but food shortages, disease and heavy casualties wore down the Native’s resistance. King Phillip (Metacom) was shot in the head by a native that allied with the English (Afterwards the Puritans displayed Metcom’s head for 20 years at Plymouth). Although one-tenth of the colonial men of military age in New England were killed, a higher proportion of the total population than would be killed in either the American Revolution or Civil War in …show more content…
In 1621, the Dutch government granted the newly formed Dutch West India Company permission to colonize there and expand the thriving fur trade. New Amsterdam (now New York City), founded in 1625, became the capital of the colony. They took over New Sweden in 1655. 1. How was the colony diverse? X Do not study.
The Dutch company profited from fur trade, but not many people came so they let a variety of people in the colony. More Dutch, Germans, French, Scandinavians, and other Europeans settled the area. They also included Africans, free and enslaved. They were friendlier with the Natives, unlike the English. They traded them furs and the Dutch were smart enough not to anger the powerful Iroquois, however the Dutch did have fights with smaller tribes over land and trade rivalries. 2. How did the English takeover?
The English viewed it as separating the Northern and Southern colonies, in 1664, King Charles gave his brother James (Duke of York, later known as King James II) permission to drive out the Dutch. When they arrived in the harbor, the governor Peter Stuyvesant raised a call to arms. Severely outnumbered Peter surrendered. The Duke of York renamed it New York, and later gave land to two of his friends who made it New