John Mason was the founder of this colony. After being governor of Portsmouth, he and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the Council leaders, received a grant, in 1622, for the area between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, in America. Mason and Gorges split the land. Mason took the territory that lied between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers, and named it New Hampshire. Gorges took the remaining land. This New England colony was named New Hampshire in honor of actual Hampshire, England. The colony
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Founded in one of the original 13 colonies, Charleston was the first permanent settlement in South Carolina, proving its significance. Not only that but it also had one of the largest population of slaves within the colonies. Charleston was very successful economically and problem solving the challenges they faced along the way. Charleston or Charlestown was originally named after the King Charles II by the eight proprietors. The many achievements accomplished by Charleston contributed to their
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Richmond came into being during the 17th century, during the time of colonization. As colonizers invaded the land, they began to build up an economy around the trading and exchanging of cash crops, one being tobacco. From that point on, tobacco began to influence and shape Richmond and what later came to be known as Church Hill. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th, the tobacco industry was the main source of income and after the Great Depression, the importance of the industry, as a whole, only increased
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In July of 1676, the historic Bacon’s Rebellion took place in Jamestown, Virginia, where the first successful English colony on the mainland of North America was settled. The Rebellion started off with small planters and frontiersmen’s attack on local Indians, a revenge for Indians’ constant raid of their property, led by a small planter named Nathanial Bacon. Eventually, due to the government’s refusal to help them against Indians and their growing tiredness of life under the dictatorial government
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an area near Chesapeake Bay. The men established the colony as Jamestown. After disputes in England, puritan separatists left England on their own financing and settled a new colony, Plymouth, in 1620. While both Jamestown and Plymouth originally established a legislative government, they diverged by the people of Jamestown seeking money and those of Plymouth looking for religious freedom. The settlers at Jamestown were members of the Church of England, contradicting the settlers at Plymouth
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Jamestown and Plymouth, two discovered lands that was an enormous impact on people's lives. As you know these lands are very comparable, but they were used contradictorily by the people. These lands were discovered by a cluster of humans, but Jamestown was generated from economic and Plymouth was induced to be for religious. Jamestown was utilized for economic reasons such as wanting to assemble their money because their first years established at Jamestown were miserable. Only men settled on this
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Plymouth and Jamestown were colonies from England that came to America. Both colonies had their different reasons for coming, one colony's main reason was for making money getting rich and the others was because of religious reasons. Jamestown was one of the colonies it was led by Captain John Smith. At that time England wanted to establish an American colony to increase their wealth and power, they were hoping to find silver and gold in America. John Smith set a new rule during that time
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As the colonies grew, they became the home to people of many land especially the English. The English colonization of North America started in 1607 when the British landed in Jamestown, Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony to start their first colonial town. Jamestown was founded by adventurers searching for profit from their settlement. Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by Puritans searching for Religion from the England Church. The Puritans occupied the Northern colonies (Massachusetts Bay
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Jamestown and Plymouth were the first successful colonies in the north. Jamestown established in 1607. While Plymouth was established later in 1620. Both colonies had similarities and differences. One similarity was that they are both English colonies, but were very different in many important ways. A difference between both of them was that in Jamestown generality was for themselves. If you did not work, you would not have any food. This leads to numerous of them dying from starvation and exhaustion
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There were many problems that caused mortality in Jamestown but there were some significant ones that were most detrimental. These problems were Jamestown’s drought, food shortages, and Indian attacks. All of these problems were brought onto the English due to Jamestown’s location. To begin, Jamestown’s deaths were influenced by its calamitous drought. This drought was stated in the document “The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts” to have roughly started around 1607 and lasted until about 1613
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