Early British North American colonies Jamestown‚ Virginia was founded in 1609 by the Plymouth group. Their goals were to create a town that had livestock‚ crops‚ homes & land for the settlers. At first there was death from the diseases‚ then when their immune systems built up there become order‚ governed by Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale. They organized workers‚ disciplined and sentenced offenders‚ and gave incentives to workers like ownership of land in trade for work for the company
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Why Did So Many Colonists Die? Jamestown had been one the first English settlements in the New World. The English had settled here before the Pilgrims’ predestination. Jamestown is known for its hard living conditions and its difficulty to grow crops. During the spring of 1607‚ King James I sent out over 100 passengers to sail into the Chesapeake Bay. John Smith was a dominant figure that helped the colonist get through their first year in the wilderness. But as time went by‚ not all of those settlers
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weak and tired to do so. Secondly‚ their only source of fresh water became brackish (Blanton)‚ brackish means it became unclean with salt. The James river led into the Chesapeake Bay witch is a source of fresh water‚ when the tides would become high‚ all the salt water would make its way up the river and in to Jamestown(Blanton). The colonist tried to dig wells but with the bad drought as I stated above‚ water wasn’t too common‚ and if they did find water salt intrusions would still happen. Also
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In these two stories‚ The General history of Virginia by John Smith and Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford‚ were about the making of two different colonies‚ Jamestown and Plymouth‚ and the reasons why they came to the New World. Both stories are written in different point of views‚ Jon Smith wrote in the 3rd person point of view‚ while William Bradford wrote in 1st person point of view. Many came for many different reasons‚ maybe because of religion reason others start a new life in the New
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Comparison between the Colonies of Chesapeake and New England This essay will be analyzing and comparing & contrasting the colonies of Chesapeake and New England. This paper’s main concern is how these colonies are so dramatically different and what aspects of the colonies make them so. This paper will argue considerable differences in settling and motives to settle had a dramatic effect on the initial success of the colonies. Chesapeake had a tremendous death rate of 65-percent of their original
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The colony was a private venture‚ financed and organized by the Virginia Company of London. King James I granted a charter to a group of investors for the establishment of the company on April 10‚ 1606. During this era‚ “Virginia” was the English name for the entire East Coast of North America north of Florida. The charter gave the company the right to settle anywhere from roughly present-day North Carolina to New York state. The company’s plan was to reward investors by locating gold and silver
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prosperity was ensured by tobacco cultivation The selection of a site for Jamestown was primarily based on the settlers’: fear of surprise attacks Unlike Virginia‚ Maryland was established d. as a religious sanctuary for persecuted Catholics from England. English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their a. striking social diversity Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were c. normally single‚ lower-class males in
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Virginia Founding religion It was named after the Virgin Queen or Queen Elizabeth I in 1607‚ a time where several settlers landed in the bay area of the Chesapeake. The people settled in the colony called Jamestown. The founding religion of Virginia at that time was Anglican. Form of government Virginia was a royal colony where laborers were allowed to own private property as well as start their own businesses to make profit in their work. Sir William Berkeley was Virginia’s royal governor who
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Chesapeake Bay and New England ColoniesThere are many key differences that distinguish the inhabitants of the New England colonies from those of the Chesapeake Bay colonies. These dissimilarities include but are not limited to the differences between the social structure‚ family life‚ forms of government‚ religion‚ and the lives of indentured servants and children in the two colonies. The social structure and family life of the two colonies varied greatly. The inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay colonies
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differences between the Virginia Company and the Massachusetts Bay Company. Both settlements began with a journey to the New World from England. Both settlements were funded by investors. However‚ one of the biggest differences is the reasoning behind the colonies starting. The Virginia Company began solely for economical profit and was a Royal Colony (supported by the Queen). The Virginia Company was the first settlement in 1607. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1628 and was more geared toward
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