Instructions For The Virginia Colony 1606 Summary
Denise Gilbert
History 108
Mr. Marcum
November 24, 2012
Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1606.
The article Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1606 was written as an Outline of American History, by students at The University of Groningen in The Netherlands, 1994 the article is about the instructions for the Charter of the Virginia Colony in 1606. It is intended to be a source of information for those seeking to better understand the United States of America from1600 to 2000.
In the “about” page this statement is shown. In November 1994 a group of students from the Arts Faculty of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under my supervision created a World Wide Web-site dedicated to the pre-World War I history of the …show more content…
It was extremely hard to understand and in some way confusing. I understand the need for instructions for the “Charter”, but I also feel that no matter how they intended it to be, no one knew what would happen once they arrived in “The New World” to be claimed as “Virginia” It seems that more than one Charter was created by the Charter of the Virginia Company of London in fact it was Three Charters enacted by 1620. It seems that all the charters were governed by one instruction, and it seems also that the main goal of the instructions was “PROFIT” by any means. As we learn later in time, some of the ships sailed from England to “Virginia Colony” were off course and ended up in Bermuda (The Somers Isles) and this took longer to reach those already there and in …show more content…
The instructions given to the leaders of the London Company maintained that this was an investment adventure and that profit from export sales was the main goal. Until years later when it seemed that having a “New England” would enlarge the population and land of England and this would be a mighty force against the foe. The instructions for the Virginia Colony as I stated were extremely vague and promising. No one knew how this “Adventure Investment” would turn out; it was a gamble and the London Company marketed shares through lotteries, sales, advertising and other means to raise the money for support. In the end, Jamestown survived, and the colonist formed a new world with old world cultures, and many years later revolted against the mother land, and formed a new government, and in later years revolted against itself, that in the 1860’s a man would utter these words of
History 108
Mr. Marcum
November 24, 2012
Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1606.
The article Instructions for the Virginia Colony 1606 was written as an Outline of American History, by students at The University of Groningen in The Netherlands, 1994 the article is about the instructions for the Charter of the Virginia Colony in 1606. It is intended to be a source of information for those seeking to better understand the United States of America from1600 to 2000.
In the “about” page this statement is shown. In November 1994 a group of students from the Arts Faculty of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under my supervision created a World Wide Web-site dedicated to the pre-World War I history of the …show more content…
It was extremely hard to understand and in some way confusing. I understand the need for instructions for the “Charter”, but I also feel that no matter how they intended it to be, no one knew what would happen once they arrived in “The New World” to be claimed as “Virginia” It seems that more than one Charter was created by the Charter of the Virginia Company of London in fact it was Three Charters enacted by 1620. It seems that all the charters were governed by one instruction, and it seems also that the main goal of the instructions was “PROFIT” by any means. As we learn later in time, some of the ships sailed from England to “Virginia Colony” were off course and ended up in Bermuda (The Somers Isles) and this took longer to reach those already there and in …show more content…
The instructions given to the leaders of the London Company maintained that this was an investment adventure and that profit from export sales was the main goal. Until years later when it seemed that having a “New England” would enlarge the population and land of England and this would be a mighty force against the foe. The instructions for the Virginia Colony as I stated were extremely vague and promising. No one knew how this “Adventure Investment” would turn out; it was a gamble and the London Company marketed shares through lotteries, sales, advertising and other means to raise the money for support. In the end, Jamestown survived, and the colonist formed a new world with old world cultures, and many years later revolted against the mother land, and formed a new government, and in later years revolted against itself, that in the 1860’s a man would utter these words of