The Colonies By: Shadvi #3 What are the colonies? What are the colonies and why are they so important. There are 13 colonies in the United States of America. These 13 colonies are important because they are the beggining of America. Before the colonies people were still exploring America. After exploring America people started to claim land and start colonies. Once they were settled the colonies traded with different countries and even had wars with the native americans that were there at the colonies before the colonials settled. Finally we can’t forget about the pilgrims journey and how they wanted to make their own community. Trade Trade was a very important part of the colonies. With each colony there was something to trade. Some colonies grew cash crops such as Tobacco to trade …show more content…
Jamestown was named after King James 1 much like the James river. When the people settled they discovered that they weren’t alone. There were indians already living in Jamestown (the powhatans). Jamestown and the Powhatans lived at peace first separating the land so that half will belong to the Powhatans and the other half will belong to Jamestown. Jamestown at one point started getting more popular and the population changing. As more people came they started to spread out onto to the Powhatans lands. Powhatans lost more and more land. Finally in 1622, the Powhatans started attacking some of the colonists. They killed more than 300 hundred colonists just to defend their land. The colonists started fighting back though and the Powhatan wars had begun. The Powhatan wars continued which led to King James 1 to take over Virginia. Because of this Virginia became a royal colony and the king now owned the colony. To help him run the King James 1 picked a governor and made a House of Burgesses share
3. The settlement of the colonies was different from what was offered to them and had to find ways how to work with it. There were three types of colonies: Corporate,Royal, Proprietary. Corperate functioned by joint-stock companies. Royal colonies functioned by the authority and the king's government. Proprietary functioned by individuals granted charters of ownership by the king. The Chesapeake Colonies had labor shortages. Landowners observe that there was excelent land but they couldn’t find enough labores. In New England relgion helped settlers from diffuclties they had in Plymouth and Massachusetts. When settlers where dissaponited with the authority of Massachusetts they traveled in search for a better place. They found Connecticut
Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. About 104 men and boys arrived at a new settlement in Virginia and named it after their king, James I, which was Jamestown. This new settlement was surrounded by many powhatan people that lived there. Although, even though English have found a new settlement, many colonist died. Colonists died in early Jamestown for three big reasons: their water was bad, they lacked key skills, and they had bad relations with the Powhatans.
In 1607, three ships sent by King James the first sailed into Chesapeake bay, Virginia carrying each over 100 people. They then sailed up the James river and settled on a piece of land today called James island. This piece of land was home to over 15,000 Powhatan natives. They gentleman who provided the voyage came here to become rich and make money by collecting animal pelts, wood, and iron. The cause of numerous colonist fatalities in early Jamestown was in direct correlation to their relations with the natives, the horrendous lack of essential supplies impeding their survival, and atrocious ailments leading to inevitable disease.
The Jamestown settlers were employees of the Virginia Company, and were there to search for wealth to bring back to investors in the old world. Immediately upon settling Jamestown, the colony was thrust into
The reason for the diverse economic development were the different climates and natural resources. New England as a region with many trees, rivers, natural harbors and a long coast. All these natural resources provided for an economy based on fishing, shipbuilding, and lumbering. The Middle Colonies had good soil, and thus specialized in farming and growing crops such as wheat. The middle colonies also served as a trade center for all the regions due to the abundance of of rivers . There were many cash crops present in the south such as tobacco and rice. This was taken advantage of, and the Southern colonies specialized in farming these crops, along with cotton in large plantations. The New England and Middle Colonies also had farms, but they were small. This specialization allowed for a multitude of goods to be exported in exchange for other goods through triangular trade. Even though there was some trading between the colonies and regions, most people relied on small farms in their area, giving a sense of 3 separate regions and not a unified
It all began when King James I granted a royal charter in 1606 that prompted the Virginia Company to begin their search for a settlement in North America. The Virginia Company was a corporation in which shares were to be bought by wealthy London men so that their money could be turned into “capital monies” that would supply for a colony that they hoped would become successful enough to return the profits . The Virginia Company upheld the rights of creating a council of leaders in the colony that would act as a government in a way. The company had to provide the settlers,
The thirteen colonies had a major impact on the independence of what is now present day United States of America. Of the three different types of colonies, there were two colonies: (the most northern colonies)New England colonies and the Middle colonies. The New England colonies consisted of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Middle colonies included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The two separate colonies had both some similarities and some differences.
The colonies were under the control of the English and had many commonalities, each region created a distinct culture that each had a great impact in economy, minority groups and religion. The Middle and the Southern colonies had great fertile land for farms and crops to grow which lead their colony to thrive and succeed. The minority groups also helped the colonies thrive but they were not treated fairly than other citizens in both the Middle and the Southern colonies. Finally, religion was toleranced mostly in both the Middle and the Southern colonies. Religion helped the colonists have different types people treat them fairly and have government run fairly. The thirteen colonies was an important part of America. It was the New England, Middle and the Southern colonies that came together and formed the United States. The Middle and the Southern colonies delivered laws and was a learning experience. The colonies helped people realize to learn and continue some of what the colonists did. In end, colonies learnt the art of farming and learnt to thrive, different types of people as well as religion was learnt to be accepted and colonial leader leaded how to govern and how to create a unified government itself. These reasons is what lead them to establish a new
The English had two main colonies in the new world, Jamestown and Plymouth. The first colony was Jamestown, established in Virginia in 1607. Jamestown was settled by Captain John Smith, and was named after King James I. Tobacco was the main export of Jamestown, and became the basis of the Jamestown economy, sending more than 50,000 lbs of the plan back to Europe by 1618 (textbook 46). Jamestown had a very rocky start, many colonists dying in the first few years of the settlement, and the settlers had many problems with natives. Shortly after the arrival of English colonists the Natives attacked them, and were finally forced back by a canon from the English. A very uneasy truce was finally settled between the natives, called the Powhatans,
New England and the Middle Colonies economies were largely based in manufacturing, lacking the reliance on slaves that the Southern Colonies held. New England was largely into fishing and timber. It was also the shipping hub of goods for every other colony as well. Much less money was made than in the South, but the people enjoyed the independence working for themselves came with. The Middle Colonies were into manufacturing as well, but on a much smaller scale than New England. The Middle Colonies dealt with farming and producing grain. Furthermore, with New York being an important port, trade along the river was a large part too. The South’s economy was vastly different as slave labor and tobacco were major sources of wealth for landowners. Tobacco,
During the Seventeenth-Eighteenth century, many colonists established along the Atlantic coast of North America in the English 13 colonies. The England established colonies because the English wanted to set up a military base for supplying their warships, they wanted to get rich & Powerful, and to get resources from the colonies which are a group of people settled in a distant land. People moved to the colonies because there were pull factors which is when there is something where the other country has a better life there. Some pull factors were freedom of religion, better life, free land, and new jobs. The geography and climate influenced the economy of the Middle Region and the people in the area developed a unique culture.
Their enemies didn't really want them on their land so Jamestown had to build a fort to protect themselves from getting killed.
There were many different early American colonies.The settlers in these colonies came from many different places such as; England, France, Spain, and The Netherlands. Also, the settlers in these colonies settled for many different reasons. The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies developed a different way of life because of differences in aspects of life such as; government, religion, and geography.
The Dutch came for business and soon made a profit in fur trading. Southern colonies made sugar, cotton, tobacco, Indigo, and rice. Slaves
Economies quickly emerged as a result of human and environmental interaction. Each settlement had its own economy which were based on different aspects. The English colonies were arguably the most diverse with economic activities including farming, fishing, and trading. Their settlements were mostly mercantile, meaning it “promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers,” and was famous for their exports, which largely consisted of tobacco, rice, timber, and fish. Tobacco and rice became the major cash crops of the southern colonies. These cash crops were grown on large plantations of land that needed large numbers of workers. Most colonists grew their own food. The soil was too thin and rocky and the climate too harsh for the colonists to grow cash crops. They turned to fishing, lumbering, fur trading, and metal working to nourish their economy. The French economy was mainly based on fur trade because it was more profitable, but still had its part in farming. An abundance of rivers allowed for transportation of goods between the colonies. Mills to grind grains developed and supported local economies. Much like the others, the Spanish were famous for their trading, while also having farming in their western colonies. It was strictly regulated by the Spanish Board of Trade and laws were enforced by the Spanish military. The Northern colonies developed cottage industries that traded on a simple barter system. For example, one household might mill grain while the neighbor spun