...The Historical Significance of the Jamestown Colony Jamestown is referred to as the “First Colony” in popular culture, however, in my opinion, Jamestown is more akin to a “stepping stone” for the colonization of North America. The Jamestown colony is tremendously significant in history and shows us the settlers motive of colonization, as well as their reasoning for settling in the area they chose. Again, the Jamestown colony was a key checkpoint in the European race for North America. The English settlers main purpose for traveling to the New World was gold, which unfortunately was not easily found on the east coast. As well as gold, the settlers also travelled for religious freedom and monetary gains. In an article by ushistory.org, they...
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...It was a settlement, a perfectly normal one… until.. Death. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. It was located in Virginia, near the Cobham Bay and the James River. There were 104 colonists that decided to settle here, but they didn’t sense what was coming. Through the years of Jamestown, the colony nearly died out within those years, and the death toll rose tremendously. The colony struggled by and managed to survive. The reason there were so many deaths because they colony faced many hardships, such as a horrible place to live, a lack of important workers and attacks by savage natives. First of all, the decision that the settlers chose to settle wasn’t a very well chosen place to live, as some of the most...
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...Jamestown was a colony established by the Virginia Company, which was chartered from King James l. This colony was everyone for themselves. Such as people were not used in physical work. Others were gold seeking adventures that refused to hunt or farm. To conclude, this colony barely managed to survive for its first five years with the help of Captain John Smith. He made it through with the colony by forceful leadership. Over time, he left the colony and never returned as he was badly injured by a mysterious gun powder explosion. Despite this, the colony managed to continue with the help of John Rolfe and Pocahontas as they managed to develop a new variety of tobacco. For that reason, tobacco became popular in Europe and became a profitable crop. Plymouth was a colony established by religious motivation from English Protestants. These Protestants or Separatists were radical dissenters to the Church of England. More importantly, they wanted to organize a completely separate church that was independent from royal colony. Initially, they managed to get to the colony by the Mayflower that was from the Netherlands to Massachusetts. Once there, they battled, but managed to get through with the help of the Natives and strong leaderships from William Bradford and Miles Standish. Bradford was caring for his...
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...Early Colonies By Aryan Drona Introduction There are houses and huts everywhere but men and slaves are outside working and building and all the women are inside cooking and cleaning. But all of them have one thing in common. They are all early settlements. It does matter which early settlement, they are all part of one. Maybe it's Jamestown or Roanoke island or even New Netherlands but all of them are different in many ways. The Jamestown Colony Jamestown was created by the Virginia company in 1607. With permission of King James the I the Virginia company sent 3 ships with 105 boy’s and men and 39 crew men in search to find a new land to set up another colony. Jamestown was located in virginia.They found a land that was good because it had water around 3 sides of the so that meant that the people who live in Jamestown know where other colonies would attack from. But the location was bad because it was a swampy area and swamps contain a lot of mosquitoes and mosquitoes carry a lot of diseases. Because of all of the diseases, more than half of the colonist died after that first winter. The colonists also built a triangle shaped fort around Jamestown for protection. Most men came to Jamestown in search of gold but they were...
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...venture to establish a colony in Jamestown was designed eight months in advance. The colony was organized and funded by The Virginia Company of London . The Virginia Company had very few investors. After two years, they initiated a public stock of twelve pounds and ten shillings a share. English America became a corporation before a country. The company had designed the colony to extract profits from the gold, silver and other riches they believed to be found in that area of North America. Another goal was to find a trade route, by river, to the Pacific Ocean from Virginia (3,4). They sent specific orders that were only to be opened within 24 hours of arriving in Virginia. They made three copies that were kept on different ships in case of any mishaps...
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...Halm The Differences between Indentured Servants and Slaves Whether someone was an indentured servant or a slave does not matter because one is not better than the other, but there are differences between the two. An indentured servant was a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, or transportation, especially during the 17th century. A slave was someone’s personal property. The difference between indentured servants and slaves has never really been addressed but it’s important that we know the difference between the two, to better understand history. Indentured servants first arrived in America in 1607 following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company. The idea for indentured servants was born because there was a need for cheap labor. The earliest settlers realized that they had lots of land to care for, but no one to care for it. Indentured servants became an important part of colonial America. Indentured servants had to complete hard years of work but after the specified period of time they would be granted freedom. Most of the indentured servants were young (under the age of 21) and worked on farms doing the majority of the manual work. Others did things in the home such as complete domestic services. The jobs that the servants did do, they did not get paid for but they did receive certain amenities for their services. Once a servant completed their obligation...
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...The Ohio State University, History Dept. Colonial Virginia’s Culture during the French and Indian War: 1755-1756 John Rodock History 3011 Emily Arendt Due May 22, 2014 Introduction This research paper contains an analysis of the culture in the colony of Virginia over the whole year of 1755 and beginning of 1756. Most of the research drew upon weekly issues of the Virginia Gazette, the only printed newspaper in the colony at that time. Three dimensions of culture were explored: Virginia’s involvement in the French and Indian War (which was beginning right around 1755), Virginia’s economy, and its religious affiliations. A section on colonists’ relations with Native Americans was also written, of which The Virginia Gazette gave detailed insights and accounts, but due to the page limit of the assignment, the section was omitted. Involvement in the French and Indian War In 1730, the population of the Virginia colony was about 114,000. The next 20 years saw an explosion of growth in population due to the increasing demand of indentured servants needed on plantations. Also, Governor Spotswood encouraged immigration to the outskirts of Virginia in the hopes that immigrant townships could alert Virginia’s ports of any possible attacks from Native Americans before their arrival. By the time the French and Indian War had begun, Virginia’s population had climbed to just under 300,000 (Virginia History...
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...Competing Interests in the New Land Tension and conflict were a normal part of everyday life between the early settlers and the Native Americans. Several authors emerged during this time, and their personal accounts incorporate critical details necessary to understand the social and cultural differences that hindered peaceful negotiations between the settlers and the Natives. This paper will examine some of those tensions and the resulting conflicts as many countries maneuvered to gain a foothold on new or existing interests in the new land. European cultural exchange with North America stretched back to Leif Ericsson’s arrival at Newfoundland around the year 1000 (Perkins 2). However, it would take an additional five-hundred years before...
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...Immigration in the United States: Past, Present and Future Immigration and the United States of America go hand in hand ever since it was first discovered by Christopher Columbus. It is a great nation built on and built by immigrants. There were many waves of immigration we can speak of in America, and all of them required a different approach from the government to handle. In the following research paper. In this research paper, I will attempt to demonstrate how immigration in the United States of America came to be what it is today, by taking a look at its overall, concise, immigration history from the colonial times until today, as well as the various state and federal legislations that were implemented with regards to immigration, whether...
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...Natives and their Role in the American Frontier As Americans, we do not usually question how we came to this land or why we are able to live here as we do. We believe that the American frontier is this grand historical past of our growth as a nation. However, the country we know today as the United States of America was originally inhabited by natives such as the Native Americans, or Indians as they are commonly known as, and Mexicans who were robbed of their homeland in order for the white man to take over control. As citizens of this country, it is important to know how the natives were treated and portrayed in literature in order to become educated about our country and the people that inhabited this land before us. Being ignorant about a particular culture leads to misguided feelings and judgments that are not normally acceptable. By looking at examples from John Smith’s The Chesapeake Indians, Mary Rowlandson’s A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, and Frederick Jackson Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History, we will see that natives were portrayed negatively in popular literature and why it is important to understand how they are represented is justified by the colonial expansion of the American frontier. In early literature written by English settlers, Native Americans were portrayed with very negative connotations. The writers often used words such as: brutal, dark, uncivilized, and savage to depict the native...
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...right or wrong. Many states use capital punishment for reasons such as justice for the victim and their family and to prevent the likelihood of the same crime. However capital punishment does not assure these results, therefore the United States should eliminate the death penalty. The death penalty dates back to the Eighteenth Century B.C. Death sentences were done by crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement (DPIC). The Death Penalty Information Center states that “Britain influenced America's use of the death penalty more than any other country. When European settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain.” In the 1930’s death penalty statistics began to be collected on a regular basis. By the end of the 1960’s, all but ten states had laws allowing capital punishment. Due to strong pressure by people against the death penalty there was a suspension on executions that began in 1972 and ended in 1976. Before the suspension there was an average of 130 executions per year (Green). As of April 2012, there have been 1, 290 executions since 1977. Today there are 34 death penalty states and 16 non-death penalty states, with Texas being in lead having the most executions per year (DPIC). The risk of falsely accusing a man or woman for a crime they did...
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...Washington DC, in which marijuana is being, used for medicinal purposes and not break any laws. Eighteen states’ are pending Legislation to legalize medical marijuana. There are documents stating that the Chinese used marijuana for paper, the process consisted of hemp around 2000 BC. According to Guither, P. Drug Warrant (2006), “America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law “ordering” all of the farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other “must grow” laws over the next 200 years. A person could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767, and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender a person could even pay their taxes with hemp and try that today. Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes including essential war requirements and rope, excreta. That the government went out of its way to encourage growth” Guither, P. ( 2006) (para 6). The history of marijuana Marijuana has many different names, Hemp, Ma, and Marihuana are just a few of the names in which marijuana is called. Marijuana and hemp are the same plant but they have different uses. According to Cannabis MD (2008), “during the early days of the American colonies, industrial hemp products became indispensable to the world trade; hemp was a government-mandated crop” (para 26). Two of the United States past Presidents, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson had “repeatedly extolled the...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A Research Paper on the “The Contribution of Baptists in the Struggle for Religious Freedom” Submitted to Dr. Jason J. Graffagnino, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of CHHI 665 – B04 History of Baptists by Elizabeth Linz Barthelemy February 1, 2015 Contents Introduction 1 The Baptist Origin 2 The separatists/puritans 2-3 The First Baptists Believers 4-5 The American Baptist Contribution to “religious liberty ideal”...............................................6 Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Pennsylvania Colonies......................................................7-8 The South Colonies and Their Struggle for “Religious Liberty” 9-11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography.............................................................................................................................13-15 Introduction “Religious Liberty” is a good and perfect gift from above. Contrary to populace belief “the separation of church and state,” did not originate with the ACLU but for the most part, it originated with the first British Baptists that arrived in Colonial America they were defenders of true “religious liberty.” Moreover, the distinction between religious liberty and tolerance of religion is significant. “Religious liberty” is a right of every men, however, tolerance is...
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...TaQuisha Roland ETH/125 April 23, 2011 ALICEIA ATKINSON This Autobiographicl I will talk about the beginning of slavery and where it has leaded us to today. In this research paper I will write in a first- person account on how human interactions in your community have been radicalized. For my community, I will consider relations within the neighborhood, local government, service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which I am a part of. According to Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups (2006), The African Americans presence in the United States began almost simultaneously with permanent White settlement. Unlike most Europeans, however, the African people were brought involuntarily and in bondage. The end of slavery heralded new political rights during reconstruction, but this was short-lived era of dignity. Despite advocacy of nonviolence by leads such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights civil rights movement met violent resistance throughout the South. In the mid-1960s, the nation’s attention was diverted to urban violence in the North and the West. Blacks responded to their relative deprivation and rising expectations by advocating Black Power, which in turn met with White resistance. While African Americans have made significant gains, the gap between Blacks and Whites remains remarkably unchanged in the last half century. Religion was and continues to be a major force in the African American community. (Richard T...
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...brings technological, health and economic benefits to the world. When people hear the word hemp or marijuana they believe in the medical aspects but it also has a vast amount of usefulness for example; hemp is able to produce plastic and medicine it is said that one acre of hemp is to produce more oxygen than twenty-five acres of forest. One important use of cannabis is the use as bio fuel with the plant’s ability to grow in infertile soils also reduces the need to grow it on primary croplands, which can then be reserved for growing food, says Richard Parnas, a professor of chemical, materials, and bimolecular engineering(Christine Buckley). With the high demand of oil and jobs, hemp is a more reliable source a resources in addition a research from the University of Connecticut stated: The hemp biodiesel showed a high efficiency of conversion – 97 percent of the hemp oil was converted to...
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