The colony of Jamestown was founded in 1607. This colony was named after English King James. The colony Massachusetts Bay was founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. Both colonies were from Europe. Jamestown was a colony that went through quite a struggle. Spain came to Jamestown looking for gold, but unfortunately they never found it.The London Company had wrote a charter giving them permission to settle in Jamestown. For a period of time the colony starved, the only they
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in England began to feel conflict with in the country they lived in and set sail for a new land called the America’s. Upon arrival they began to build colonies. During this time the Mayflower Compact was created to provide a type of Government to be established for the colonists. “On May 21, 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 adult males in Provincetown Harbor, Mass, representing the first agreement on self-government in English North America” (Digitalhistory, 2012) Based on the character
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more closely and give up the remnant of Catholicism. Among those Puritans there was a group of people who lost faith in the Anglican church, decided to abandon it, separated themselves from it. These became Separatists(Pilgrim). Pilgrims took the Mayflower to come to America to practice religious freedom.
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There were many people that left England and headed towards the new land, but many others made their way towards Ireland and even the West Indies. Some one hundred and twenty thousand settlers settled the Chesapeake Bay area while about twenty thousand settlers settled the Middle Colonies which includes Pennsylvania. The English settlers that settled the Chesapeake Bay area were predominantly white males at first. Later on, the first women would begin making their way to Colonial America and a
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The both colonies were lead by English leaders that both went through very similar situations on a daily basis. The leader of Jamestown was Captain John Smith and the leader of Plymouth was William Bradford. These colonies both went through starving times, to losing many of their people from Native American tribe attacks. The two colonies traveled trying to find a place to settle for a better life. The main reason why they were trying to find a new place was because of the economic colonization problems
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pilgrims hired him to act as their military captain and manage all contact with pilgrims from other countries, such as the French, Spanish, and Dutch; and the Native American people. Myles Standish and his wife Rose left Plymouth, England on board the Mayflower on September 6, 1620. When they arrived in
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historian. A native of Yorkshire, England, Bradford joined the Separatist movement while a teenager. After enduring religious persecution, he and other Pilgrims (a name Bradford gave his Separatist group) eventually immigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. As a leader of Plymouth Colony, Bradford served off and on as governor for thirty years. Bradford is best known for his two-book series Of Plymouth Plantation, written 1630-1650, documenting the early years of Plymouth Colony. Several
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The Southern colonies had its first permanent settlement in the year of 1607 when immigrants settled in present day North Carolina(Virginia.) (Brinkley)In 1619 Virginia became known for the first colony to have an elected legislature, known as the House of Burgess. Most of the people that lived in these colonies where Anglicans and those who weren’t had to leave. (Brinkley) The colonies that made up the southern included; Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas (later split into North & South
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Unaware of the hardships they faced, they founded the New England colonies, wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact and set up a civil government to provide order in their new land. The four colonies that made up this new region were Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The new England colonies were dominated by Puritans and their lives
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French and the British traded with the Indians. The British were fighting over their territories for years. Ending the war was the treaty of Paris. Britain and the colonist began selling Indian land. And felt they should be independent. The mayflower compact declared the first self government it had power
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