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The English men and women joined the ventures in hopes to better their own life or that of their families. Another reason some joined the venture was that they hoped to be able to freely practice their own religion in the Americas. “The opportunity to worship according to their own beliefs in America may have been a major incentive for some settlers to join White’s venture” (Horn 133). Most of the settlers that White was recruiting were people that he knew or people that he was recruiting knew. “At least a third of the settlers were related to other members of the group” (Horn 130). The settlers represented many different kinds of groups. A group that they represented was the Puritans. “There is a strong possibility that some of the London colonists were Puritans. London was at the heart of the English Puritan movement after the restoration of the Protestant church in 1558” (Horn 131). They also had a middle class background. “Most of the colony’s ruling group came from respectable middle-class backgrounds” (Horn 126). By settling in the Roanoke Colony they hoped to achieve a better life for themselves or their families back home.

The English had two main colonies in the new world, Jamestown and Plymouth. The first colony was Jamestown, established in Virginia in 1607. Jamestown was settled by Captain John Smith, and was named after King James I. Tobacco was the main export of Jamestown, and became the basis of the Jamestown economy, sending more than 50,000 lbs of the plan back to Europe by 1618 (textbook 46). Jamestown had a very rocky start, many colonists dying in the first few years of the settlement, and the settlers had many problems with natives. Shortly after the arrival of English colonists the Natives attacked them, and were finally forced back by a canon from the English. A very uneasy truce was finally settled between the natives, called the Powhatans,

The Chesapeake also had its own obstacle brought about by nature. Diseases such as dysentery, malaria, and typhoid struck hard, cutting off numerous years of life expectancy for the people of the Chesapeake. Since health is a major concern for a developing colony, disease in a colony tends to eat at the morale of a town. This was demonstrated in the Chesapeake where disease cost many colonists their lives, especially women, leaving many men frustrate with little hope for having families. This harsh reality along with the arduous voyage decreased the amount of women and children who immigrated to the region (Doc C,F). Unlike their Southern counterparts, New England was healthier and not ravaged by disease. The cleaner conditions increased the colonists’ life expectancy by several years. Because of the thriving conditions of the New England society, many English emigrants emigrated with their entire family, as exemplified in Document B, “Joseph Hull…Agnes Hull, his wife…Joan Hull, his daughter…Joseph Hull, his son”. Unlike most Chesapeake children who would be lucky if they lived to see both their parents, the New

The Indians knew how to live off the land and were expert hunters and gatherers their main food they grew was corn and traded with the colonist by giving them corn and gathering up food for them. Back in England people who were wealthy had no clue how to survive on the plains and take care of a farm and plow fields and hunt for meat. Since they came from the city of England the Englishmen were people who did not know that kind of life. They were wealthy Englishmen; most of these men were lazy and didn’t know what manual labor was. In addition, there were Englishmen of trade who were carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers who settled down in Jamestown. It was known that one of the main reasons why the Englishmen settled in Jamestown in hope to find gold, rubies, pearls, and silver and to be able to sell it in England for a profit. Devastation struck instead, within a few months less than hundred died. These deaths were excruciating deaths, and the horror of deaths continued from 1607 to 1610. Some men would find themselves going out of their mind, while others had a blistering burning fever, and some men’s skin would just peel off like peeling off a boiled potato and sudden deaths rapidly appeared, some licked up the blood from their falling comrades as some swelled up so fast less than a hundred from five hundred survived. Many of the colonists were very weak and could not do hardly anything. Some figured the cause of the deaths was from

On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company, founded the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Jamestown colonists purpose is to find gold, silver, and other resources all they want is claiming land and riches. Smith left the Jamestown settlers without a strong leader so he left all his people alone. There’s no houses for them, there’s no supplies for them to survive due to the lack of leadership. So the settlers faced many hardships they had not expected. The settlers lacked some skills necessary to contribute for themselves like farming, hunting, etc. Many settlers died not only because of starvation & disease but also during the winter many settlers starve or froze to death because they don’t have anything for that season. After all what happens to them the settler adjusted to their new lives in America. The few remaining colonists turned to local Powhatan Indians to help them learn the process of planting and harvesting corn and tobacco. The settlers relied on

In 1607, England sent colonists to the coast of Virginia so they could create a new settlement named Jamestown. Captain John Smith led the settlement. Over the first decade of its existence, the colony struggled simply to survive. All they wanted to do was make money and get rich. The discovery of tobacco was a great for Jamestown and they sold anywhere they could for great profits and it lasted through the 1620s. An understanding happened between Powhatan and John Smith led the settlers to establish much-needed trade with Powhatan’s tribe by early 1608. Even though several fights still broke out between the two groups, they still traded with each other. His good leadership, military experience, and determination gave discipline to the colonists and when he left Jamestown, mortality lowered.

Hello Nina, interesting interpretation and very informative as well. Brands et al. points out, that while Lincoln favored the freedom of black slaves, he feared of alienating the Unionist on border slave states (343). Lincoln, was under political pressure, and as you have pointed out the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation did stop the Republican Party from splitting. Additionally, Lincoln gave the confederate states 100 days to end the struggle over slavery. And since congress was unenthusiastic about the proclamation, moreover, Southerners did not provide a response. The proposition was applied a year later, and was not completely affective, as it did not extend to slave states.

There were one hundred five men, woman, and children. The religion the settlers was the Anglican Church. According to (history.com) law mandated Virginians to worship the Church of England. This is another word for the Anglican Church. This church was supported by taxpayers. The settlers struggled for religious freedom. The Virginians did not tolerate non Christian religions. The reason the English came here in the first place was because of the king. King James the First of England was the King at this time. He hoped the colonists would find gold, and then send it back to England. They assumed gold was going to very easy to find. King James also wanted them to find The Northwest Passage. Also they wanted to Expand English Control, to this part of the world

Segregation has changed society in many ways. Overtime, most people thought that it was okay for whites and blacks to be separated, but overall segregation is wrong. It was then officially known as constitutional. This led to the start of the Civil Rights War where African Americans fought for their equality. Segregation is wrong because both races were not equal, but a few were recognised for fighting back for their rights, and started boycotts to the stop the segregationists for protesting.

“Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed” (Gordon B. Hinckley). Neil Shusterman wrote a book called Unwind and it shows how life is valuable to the people in that society because many teenagers, from ages thirteen to seventeen, are getting unwound. Unwinding was an idea to get rid of unwanted children, but not actually ending their lives. The idea was created to scare both sides so they would be reasonable during the war, but they had continued with the idea and the Bill of Life was signed. The outcome was when unwinding went into-effect, and the Heartland War ended. Unwinding was an iniquitous act to begin with, but it could not be stopped. The generation of teens in that society did not deserve it because they did

The first business that the settlers got to after they shortly arrived in Jamestown was establishing who would be making decisions. They chose seven men to be a part of a council. Captain John Smith was included in this council. After getting settled in to Jamestown, a report was made to the King. This was done by two ships traveling all the way back to England. On the way back to Jamestown from England, more supplies were brought back and more people to become settlers of Jamestown. But in the time that the people were back in England giving a report to the King, most of the settlers back in Jamestown had become very sick and many had starved to death due to the lack of supplies and food. The indigenous people of the land where Jamestown was located tried many times to attack the settlers who were left behind.

Famine, disease, odor, anger are all experienced while on a voyage to the new world in the seventeenth century. In Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith’s The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown, the authors’ chronicle the struggles and adventures of the Virginia Company in England. When reading this novel, the main points that stood out most to me was that colonization of America presented a lucrative enterprise and companies will go to great extremes to access the available wealth. The authors of The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown changed my view on early American colonization in regards to the interactions between natives and Europeans, the abuse of religion, and the harsh conditions settlers endured.

The Virginia Company sought land April 26, 1607. There was 144 men, 44 boys were in the Adventure Party. The families that had any older brothers were unlikely to become landowners. They thought that their trip would be 3 months but instead it turned into a 4 month trip. One man on the ship John Smith was in shackles within a few weeks. In 1608 70 settlers arrived. Powhatan helped the colonists by supplying food. The place the colonist had docked the ships there was 13,000 Indians living near there. Once the colonist were settled more arrived. The colonist that arrived had little supplies with them which made starvation stronger. There was little supplies because Sea Venture was destroyed which carried supplies and 100 people.

circumstances were extremely difficult - approximately 200 settlers died the first year and a similar number returned to England in the spring of 1631. Gradual improvements in living conditions led to an influx of new colonists, mainly English Puritans, that totaled more than 20,000 over the next decade.

England in the seventeen century was in a time of new discoveries and the search for a new life. England, although late on exploration, was portraying a picture of wealth and luxury to those who wanted a new beginning. At first, many of these explorers were just upper class men who were seeking their own wealth, however this changed and in the 1700 's there were at least 100,000 settlers living in Virginia, Maryland, and Northern Carolina all varying in social rank and race (Roark, Understanding 61). The production of tobacco in the early 1600 's changed the experiences of Chesapeake Bay settlers in different ways. With that purpose many people rose to the top, while others were trampled underneath. Tobacco, while an answered prayer to some, became the beginning of a new era of a harsh life for slaves and servants.