HISTORY: Early English Settlements - New England Colonies

Early English Settlements

1. The first permanent english settlement was Jamestown in North America; it was created by a group of merchants, the Virginia Company of London, that was a join-stock company that obtained the charters to make the colony by the king. At first the administration of the colony were made by Virginia Company's leaders in England but by the time the people of Jamestown needed to have their own representative to the administration. They obtain the right to send to representatives per town to the assembly, they were called burgesses.

2. The Virginia Company established in North America because these lands had already been considered good for colonialism by previous explorer and politic's men.

3. The growing of tobacco helped save jamestown from economic failure.

4. The king of England willed to started trades with the America to increase english finance.

5. Growth of Jamestown: permanent settlement in America with own organization & slavery.

6. The 30% of settlers in Plymouth were children.

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New England Colonies

1. In 1534 England became an official Protestant country with any toleration against other worships; many people dissented with the beliefs of the new religion, these were the Puritans, who were protestant but wanted a reform, and Separatist, who disagreed completely and wanted to set up their own churches. All of these people were persecuted by the state and so many of them went in America to look for religious freedom. A first group of Separatist settled in Virginia, they were Pilgrims because their journey had a religious purpose. They establish in Plymouth and to formalize their independence they drew up a formal document called the Mayflower Compact.

2. Separatist left Europe for the americas to escape the persecution against them and economic hard times.

3. Rhode Island offered the religious freedom.

4. The Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut had in common the description of the political order of the respective colonies, a kind of official low.

5. The colonist interact with the Native Americans: the colonist learn about how survive in the new lends (cultivate vegetables, where to hunt and fish...), the colonist took Native Americans' lands, there was a terrible war were died a lot of people and Native Americans risked the extinction.

6. Furs, Rum and Lumber came from New Hampshire.