early 1600’s when King James I chartered the Virginia Company. This charter laid out exactly where the colony would be. It was‚ in the beginning‚ a joint-stock company‚ consisting of private investors and two branches‚ the Plymouth Company and the London Company. The Plymouth Company had control over the northern section
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company‚ The London Company‚ received its charter from James I in 1606 they sent 144 men‚ only 104 made it to America. The colonists sailed over to America‚ up a river that they later named the James River and settled on a peninsula they later named Jamestown. Upon‚ their arrival they immediately ran into serious problems. Many colonists were highly vulnerable to local diseases‚ mostly Malaria. The main reason the colonists were there was to find gold‚ lumber‚ tar‚ pitch‚ and iron. They were hoping
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Pilgrims (US)‚ or Pilgrim Fathers (UK)‚ is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth‚ Massachusetts‚ United States. Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th–17th century Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity‚ the group later arranged with English investors to establish
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Although Captain John Smith (Jamestown) and William Bradford (Plymouth) held and wrote about similar positions in similar situations‚ they handled these situations differently. Not only did they come to the New World for different reasons‚ they also had different focuses when they wrote the histories of their respective colonies. Captain John Smith’s only apparent reason for coming over to the New World to settle was for the adventure that was sure to arise. In his early days‚ he did a lot of fighting
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them. "If God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar‚ thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee‚" said a Puritan matron to her son. The colonists who within the next fifty years dotted the New England coast-line with their thrifty settlements were idealists. As Professor Tyler puts it‚ they established "not an agricultural community‚ nor a manufacturing community‚ nor a trading community; it was a thinking community." Moral earnestness characterized every action. In 1636‚ the General
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The idea of a glorious earthly paradise far from the known world had existed in the European imagination long before 1492. That idea of a distant paradise on earth shaped the way Europeans came to think of America after Columbus and his successors reported their discoveries. For example‚ the following mythic lands may have served as inspirations for the alluring idea of America as a place of joy‚ ease‚ riches‚ and regeneration: a. the Garden of the Hesperides of Greek myth
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Textual Reading Guide for Module 1 ________________________________________ The Literature of Early America p. 1-5 1. The first Europeans to establish settlements on this continent did not call it America until the 18th century. What did these early settlers call it? The New World 2. The colonies that became the United States were - for the most part - inhabited by individuals from which European country? England 3. How much is known of the perspectives of the native inhabitants of this continent
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subjugation of natives‚ which led to the 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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AP US Notes Chapter 1. Civilizations of America-prmarily small nomadic bands. Primitive agriculture. Hunting fishing. Incas-powerful empire of 6 million. Complex political system very sophisticated culture. Located in south and central America. Never had any system of writing or paper. Aztec-very advanced‚ located in lower and middle Mexico. Civilizations of the North. Never one large civilization but lots of little ones. Many different tribes. Includes Eskimos‚ tribes of pacific
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colonists’ relationships with the Native Americans were. The relations in the British colonies varied. In Jamestown‚ which was one of the earliest English settlements‚ the relations were not good. The colonists thought of the Native people as savages and no more than mere animals. They were almost always fighting and the only reason they traded was out of fear and necessity. Yet‚ in Plymouth the Natives and the colonists had good relations. After the Natives helped the colonists plant crops‚ showed
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