Captain Jahn Smith and Governor William Bradford were two influental leaders in the New World during the early 1600s. They both established a colony and they attempted to attract settlers with writings. Their writings were intended for different audiences and they both had different purposes. John Smith’s writings were intended to bring people to the new world. He wrote a pamphlet to the people in England and told about all the good things about New England. In his pamphlet he tried to persuade people
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Associate Level Material Appendix A Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named. | |Native Americans |Northern Colonists |Mid-Atlantic Colonists |Southern Colonists |West Africans | |Political Structure|These societies continued to exist|Many of these were settled by | The Mid-Atlantic colonies had
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The Age of Exploration and Exchange in 1450 - 1750 CE‚ was a catalyst for the colonization of North America. Before this period in history‚ the Americas were an unknown place to the west of the rest of the developing world. The explorers and travelers ran into North America unintentionally. However‚ what happened after this was no accident. Once more first discovered‚ many nations sent out more traders and explorers to North America. Although there were already natives on the land‚ several European
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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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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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Arely Marte U.S. History 1302 January 26‚ 2015 INDIANS AND THE SETTLEMENTS OF AMERICA 1. Jamestown was the first colony that gets found. It was there where the first permanent settlement occurs. Jamestown was a poor location for colonization. The men dug wells to obtain water‚ but the water they found could not drink because it was contaminated. In addition‚ the ground was wet and had too many mosquitos. The mosquitoes were carriers of diseases and made the settlers sick. After a year‚ about half
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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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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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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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