Charlestown: Settlement In Charleston

In 1629 King Charles decided to make England a colony. In 1729 north and South Carolina a colony. The colony's were taken over by the King and started to be a colony. The first settlement was Charles Town’s. England was one of the colonies.

One of the main reasons were diseases. Many different factors caused lots of people to die of disease. This reduced the population and made it even harder for the settlement to grow. Diseases also spread quickly within the settlement and many people got sick. People were also killed by the native americans. From the start the English were mistreating the native americans, this resulted in a very strained relationship between them. The English would force them to give them food and would use aggression. On multiple occasions, the native americans killed some of the colonists of Jamestown. The colonists of Jamestown had also come during a drought. This made it even harder for them to survive and grow their settlement. All the deaths made it very difficult for the settlement to expand and

In 1607 a group of English settlers built village in Jamestown, Virginia. King Jaime I of England founded a colony in the first seven months after its arrival. Within these colonies we find the New England colonies and South Carolina colonies. We will analyze and compare the government systems, religious and economic development of both colonies and how they were related.

In the 1600’s those coming from the West Indies searching for land established a new colony south of Chesapeake. This colony was owned by the Lords Proprietors. To quickly populate the Carolina’s the Lords Proprietors offered large incentives attracting many colonists. These were things such as religious toleration, political representation, and large grants of land. With workers needed Carolina offered freedom dues; attracting many poor people that would work as indentured servants. As Carolina gained the common settlers and indentured servants the Lord Proprietors made sure to include great planters with large land grants and absolute power over their slaves. As the Lord Proprietors were in England they could not fully control Carolina. This was seen as men known as

White and his men dropped anchor off the Outer Banks of North Carolina and rowed toward the island. Crewman sounded familiar tunes on trumpets to alert the colonists, but not a single human figure was seen. The landing party made its way through the woods to the settlement at the island’s northern end. Bracing himself for the worst, White entered the clearing where he had parted from the colonists, including his daughter, Eleanor Dare and his granddaughter, the first child born in the colonies, Virginia Dare (Davis, 2009). He found the settlement deserted, weeds and vines sprouting where houses had once stood. The houses themselves had been carefully dismantled and removed. Gone, too, were the fort’s small cannon; buried chests were found, containing some of the colonists’ possessions. All the evidence suggested a planned and orderly withdrawal (McGill, 2009).

2 beings can figure out how far they have come from the beginning times where man was just learning to create fire to now where the technology has never been more advanced. There are also many mysteries in history. There have always been mysteries in history and always will be. Some of those mysteries are from hundreds of years ago, one of those being the lost colony of Roanoke. The lost colony of Roanoke occurred in August of 1585-1587 on an island off the coast of the state of North Carolina which was called Roanoke Island. What happened was once the island was discovered by an Englishman, several explorations were made of the island in attempt to colonize the area. On the third attempt to colonize the area, captain John White left to go back to England in order to get more supplies and reinforcements for the colony. It took White three years to return to the island. One reason that it may have taken him so long to get back to Roanoke is because his map of Roanoke had the directions labeled incorrectly. According to the article titled “John White searches for the colonists” it says “John White drew this map of the coast of North Carolina and Virginia in 1585 and 1586. (Note that west, not north is up.)” Once he finally returned, the settlement was abandoned with no signs of life except for the cabins that had been built. The only sign that something had happened to the colony was the

Adventure, promises of wealth, and an opportunity to a new life were some of the many reasons which attracted settlers to the Americas. However, what the new settlers did not know were the many challenges and tragedies this new life entailed. Despite all, the colonists of Jamestown would encounter the difficulties of starting a new colony in a foreign new land. The life these settlers found was nothing like they expected. Their hopes for wealth and a new beginning were soon replaced with death and misery. The colonies of the Americas can be seen as a failure because European settlers would come to experience the horrors that the “New World” would give them including famine and diseases.

During 1670 to 1783, todays Charleston was first named Charles Town from King Charles II and later named Charlestown. Settlers from England, France and Spain all settled in Charles Town, and establish a colony. Many trial and errors took place in the process of coming to South Carolina. For example, Sir Robert Heath was given a grant but the initial settlement did not take place. Later, he built a settlement below Virginia Colony stretching Southward to Spanish Florida. While settling in South Carolina there were many struggles and obstacles encountered by the settlers. Charles Town was difficult to settle from geographical features, natural resources and wildlife, and diseases and Native Americans.

Exploration was a huge part of the 1600’s. A ton of countries competed to try to claim land in the new world. Lots of countries tried to claim land but in South Carolina, but failed because of its geography, resources, and diseases. When South Carolina was finally claimed the settlers had to face the difficulties of settling there.

“There arise in many places fine savannahs, or wide extended plains, which do not produce any trees; these are a kind of natural lawns, and some of them as beautiful as those made by art.” (Document B) Early settlers found South Carolina beautiful, but as beautiful as it was it wasn’t good for hiding or protection because there was flat land. If there was a battle, there would be no hiding places like trees or hills. It was a straight shot, an open field. This is a huge disadvantage, even if the land was beautiful. The animal life in Carolina was very dangerous. “... Being and endless numbers of panthers, tigers, wolves, deer, and other beasts of prey…” (Document C). Not only was there protecting uncertainties, there were dangerous animals that could be very harmful. Charles Town was difficult to settle because of the lack of protection on the land and the menacing animals around the

The English colonies were an extremely diverse group; each with its own culture, geography, and purpose. All of these things influenced the colony as a whole, but the geography and the purpose of the colony is what really stands out. This “essay” will dissect each of the colonies and see how geography and purpose affect the development of the colony as well as how it led to its present iteration. As each of the 13 colonies have very diverse histories, this essay might omit useless details of minor colonies, such as Connecticut’s state tree being Charter Oak. Our dissection of the colonies begins with the Southern Colonies.

Following the Colonization of the Americas by European settlers, it was the moneyed elite that was either given the land to farm by the crown or used their own wealth to establish a foothold in the New World.

Furthermore, predatory animals made settling dangerous for colonists. Ultimately, Charles Town was difficult to settle due to the geography, resources, and diseases. Geography was one of the reasons Charles Town was difficult to settle.

The East coast originally known as the thirteen colonies, but what did it take to settle the East coast and later on America? Great Britain wanted to take the new land by storm and the king was determined to make money off of the lands natural resources. Unfortunately the geography of the land made it hard to settle Charles Town, its many rivers, rigid mountains, and thick swamps made it nearly impossible to explore this land. This land was described as “flat and woody” making it easy to get lost but That wasn't enough to stop explorers from coming and taking over South Carolina, there first settlement was in Charles Town, the land they had first set foot on. Then they built their first colonies where they would face more problems and make new enemies.

Jamestown Virginia is the first successful colony of the english. The first colony established in north America its colony had belong to an english colony it was the first successful. Colony but there ad been another colony that had failed the colony of Roanoke. It was unsuccessful trying to be establish the colony that is what we now north carolina. Sir Walter Raleigh he was an explore for the english he unsuccessfully tried to sponsor a settlement there in 1585 but supplies had run low and the settlers abandoned it less than one year later about two years later in 1587 John white and more english colonists about 100 of them came to the same place were Walter Raleigh had settled to