Dates: 1607- King James I gave the permission to start a tobacco colony: North America‚ Virginia‚ Jamestown 1620-pilgrims arrived from England 1630-Puritans arrived MA 1765-Stamp Act: purchase stamps to show you paid taxes on all printed items. Quartering Act: must feed and house soldiers 1773- Boston Tea Party: colonists dressed up as Indians‚ toss 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor 1775- The American Revolution begins this year 1776- Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense”
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Elizabeth 1 argues that dividing up English resources is a bad idea Colonies were a bad idea 2: wanted to put government funding toward protestant causes 3 Sir Walter Ralegh was the earliest Englishman to make an actual attempt at colonization 1 America became attractive to English policy makers in 1580s 4 1http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=W8cr4Vgt9ekC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Roanoke+Colony&ots=ys19S_6b9o&sig=PnfDZvsafb5iFv5-ycyG_X3i2lY#v=onepage&q=Roanoke%20Colony&f=false
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came to the new world for many reasons such as land‚ food‚ religion and much more. Before I start to contrast between the 2 colonies I’m going to give a general background on them. Massachusetts was established in 1620 and Virginia was established in 1607. Virginia’s colony was Jamestown and Massachusetts was Salem and Boston. Virginia was located in the southern colony‚ it also offered land. Tobacco was a profitable crop‚ so John Rolfe took seeds and planted them in Virginia; because of this Virginia
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word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What is a joint-stock company? ______________________________________________ Name two companies that we have discussed that were joint-stock companies. Virginia Company of London and Virginia Company of Plymouth A joint-stock company would closely resemble what today in the United States? Stock market‚ New York Stock Exchange‚ wall street What was the first permanent English settlement in America? Jamestown What type of geographical feature best
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Virginia Company; English stockholders in Virginia Company “The Virginia Colony” Reading & Discussion ●Based upon the reading ○What were the expectations of the early Jamestown colonists? ○What were conditions like during the early years of the Jamestown colony? Entrepreneurs in Virginia ●Jamestown was settled in 1607 along the Chesapeake Bay: work for Chesapeake colonists did not ○the location was& many starved to the common good unhealthy but easy to defend from Spanish ships death (but
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diplomat‚ England’s main tobacco producer‚ and husband of Matoaka (also known as Pocahontas)‚ was none other than John Rolfe. In the time where the New World has been recently discovered‚ in the year of 1609‚ his journey set sailed from England to Jamestown‚ Virginia on the Sea Venture as part of a new charter from the organization of the Virginia Company. The ship‚ however‚ wrecked onto the Caribbean on one of the Bermuda islands from a hurricane. While stranded between 1609 and 1611‚ Rolfe collected
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on the east coast. The various groups that embarked on a journey into the New World during the seventeenth would all face similar hardships‚ and eventually grow into powerful and structured colonies. The first permanent settlement was Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1607. The settlers that arrived that spring had no experience in colonization‚ and the majority had come with the intent of finding gold. Because of the preoccupation in the discovery of gold in the New World‚ few survived. They experienced
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destruction of their cultures‚ a preview of what would happen to native cultures throughout North America. May 14th‚ 1607: Jamestown settlement founded Jamestown was important because it was the first successful English settlement in America‚ and would become the first Royal Colony of Virginia. Jamestown almost failed like its predecessor‚ the lost colony of Roanoke. By September of 1607‚ “The colony was on the brink
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North America came from England‚ they came for reasons such as these: wanted land to plant on‚ religious freedom‚ wanted to become rich or famous‚ needed a new beginning‚ wanted to escape paying debts and others. The first successful settlement was Jamestown‚ Virginia and then other colonies arose. The 13 colonies of North America are: Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut (New England Colonies)‚ New York‚ Delaware‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania (Middle Colonies)‚ Virginia‚ Maryland‚ North
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the United States being as vast as it is today. The act of acquiring ground by leaving one area in pursuit of another was a major step into the development of our country. Starting as far back as the founding of the first successful settlement‚ Jamestown‚ to the settling of the Old Northwest‚ expansion was a vital act‚ which led to the United States’ underlying power. Prior to the development of the Thirteen Colonies‚ the demand to set out in search of new terrains was not as drastic as it later
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