As the throne changed over from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the English began to create settlements in the Americas. Starting in the Chesapeake Bay area, the English traveled to the North in search of profit and power. The British empire looked for way to decrease the power of the large empires of France and Spain. In 1606, the current king of England created the Virginia Company, starting the voyages and creation of the English empire in the eastern portion of North America.
When to Tudor family lost the throne to the Stuarts, King James I, previously James VI of Scotland, came to power. Different from the previous family of rulers, King James I encouraged the thought that only sovereigns answered to God. As he came into to power, the Church of England was divided. The divided Church constituted of reformist Puritans and conservative Anglicans. As a way to create more English power in the Americas, King James I created a joint-stock company, known as the Virginia Company. He hoped to gain profit and to weaken the powerful France and Spain.
In May, 1607, the Virginia Company settled the first perpetual colony in Virginia. The men and boys settled near a river about 40 miles …show more content…
Like Plymouth, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had the goal of being a place of worship and a place of God. Like the Puritans that colonized Plymouth, the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay created self-governing churches. In 1629, King Charles I created a group of English Puritans led by John Winthrop known as the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Company planned to use the colony as a place for persecuted Puritans. Winthrop and his company changed the government already set up in Massachusetts; by doing this, he hoped to gain control. In 1630, Winthrop and the Company set out across the Atlantic in path to Massachusetts. With the in pour of new colonists to the colony, Boston was the named the capital of the