there were ample amounts of differences to create two very different American cultures. The first permanent English settlement in America is Jamestown‚ Virginia. Jamestown began as a business venture and then failed. Later a Virginia Company of London‚ which was a joint stock company‚ organized and sent one hundred and four colonists into Virginia in 1607. In a ship’s list bound for Virginia it is shown that there were no families aboard‚ just primarily single men and a hand full of single women
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Carpenter/Moll/Beard 4 Will Beard‚ Stephanie Carpenter‚ and Sydney Moll Ms. Henry American Literature I 26 October‚ 2014 "OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION:" CHAPTERS 9 & 10 "Of Plymouth Plantation" is a manuscript of Bradford ’s history starting in 1620. The first book was copied into the church records and preserved‚ but unfortunately the second part was presumably lost. The manuscripts were found in the residence of the Bishop of London and were published together for the first time in 1856. There
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Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia
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colonists shaped those relationships in each of the following regions. Confine your answer to the 1600’s. * New England * English settlers sought to remove or exterminate the Amerindians. * Chesapeake * John Smith( one of leaders of Jamestown ) established tenuous relations with Powhatans (Helped with food but as more settlers came it became bad “wars” ) * Anglo-Powhatan Wars‚ Bacon’s rebellion( people of western Virginia that were poor weren’t protected by the Indians) * Spanish
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events leads to an outbreak called‚ The King Philips War‚ led by a Pokunoket chief named Metacom. The war lead to a decline in many Native American tribes and suffered more oppression in the hands of the English settlers. Since the founding of Jamestown in 1607 the relationship between the English colonist and the Native Americans was delicate. The greatest troubles between the two groups was land‚ the colonists didn’t understand the English view of land ownership. The English believed that they owned
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England for workers. Arriving from overseas English laborers cleared the fields for the planting and harvesting of tobacco‚ which sold for high price in the 1620’s and 1630’s” (Gale Encyclopedia). The first set of Africans to arrive in the United States arrived in Jamestown‚ Virginia in August of 1619. When these Africans arrived in Jamestown they were indentured servants‚ meaning they had an obligation of servitude for a period of seven years. However‚ it was not long before these plantation owners
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Chapter 1 2) My interpretation of the word discovery is when someone detects or finds something new or previously unknown. In 1492 an explorer named Christopher Columbus was requested by the King of Spain to find a more direct route to Asia. When he made landfall 6 weeks after leaving Spain he thought he landed in Asia. But really he had found something else‚ an unknown mass of land blocking the route to Asia‚ the Americas. Columbus failed his main task he did not discover a quicker route to
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On May 14th‚ 2007 the author will be celebrating his family’s living in America for 400 years. In that‚ on May 14th‚ 1607‚ English settlers first landed at the site that would become Jamestown‚ Virginia the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States (wikipedia.org‚ 2007). The early settlers were driven by a desire for a better life but were met with constant prejudice from
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important ones include Virginia and Carolina. Virginia first became a colony through the settling of Jamestown‚ in 1607. Jamestown was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London‚ and founded primarily for the purpose of gold‚ and in the hopes of finding a Northwest Passage to India. It was originally intended on being formed for a profit motive‚ not a permanent settlement. The first people to settle Jamestown were one hundred “gentlemen‚” not hunters or farmers. This led to the famous “starving time” during
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Bailey Kargo! IB HOTA 3rd period English vs. Spanish Colonization From 1500 to 1700‚ the English colonization of the Chesapeake region and the Spanish colonization of the Central/South American region varied greatly in their primary motivations for settlement and the lasting effects imprinted into both societies. The English motives in settling the Chesapeake region were more economically-based‚ seeking greater economic opportunity and employment‚ while the Spanish effort took on a more
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