How The Causes Of English Collonization In North America?

Thesis: The Roanoke colony proved to be an unsuccessful venture in the New World for England, since leaders of the expedition held the viewpoint that privateering would prove to be the most profitable aspect of founding the new settlements in the West. However future, still unsuccessful attempts to make a permanent colony at Roanoke, helped England understand how to build a prosperous one; and it became a building block for establishing future colonies for England and helped shape the ideas that would help launch their empire.

Religion played a very important role in both Native American and Puritan society, though their idea’s differed greatly. The puritans were very religious people, and it mattered more of what God thought of them more than anything and what everyone else thought didn’t matter as much. While the Puritans were the very religious ones, the Native Americans cared more about viewing people for who they were as people than their religious beliefs. Although the Native Americans had their own religious beliefs, the Puritans also thought that the Native Americans needed to “prove themselves worthy”, of their religious beliefs. The Puritans did not believe that the Native Americans had any kind of regulation on their own lives. It was very

After the failure of Roanoke in 1587, the English decided once again to try to establish a permanent colony in North America. Major changes in the social and economic life in England caused more people to want to come to America. After new, more nutritious crops, were brought back from the Americas, the population of England doubled. This increased the demand for more food, clothing, and other goods. The gap between the rich and the poor also increased, leaving those with little land in poverty. Religious freedom was also becoming an issue for people in England, as the Reformation began in 1533. Those who wanted to break away from the Catholic Church could not when divine right monarchs believed they had the power to enforce a particular religion on their people. It was these factors that caused the first settlers of Chesapeake and Plymouth to leave in search for a better life and to find new opportunities. The early English settlements of Chesapeake and Plymouth differed as well as resembled each other in trade and work, government, and communal and family structure, which affected the quality of life in these colonies.

At the dawn of the 17th Century, England was in a suitable position to colonize North America. England had finally reached peace with Spain, and England had many workers willing to travel to America for a chance at religious freedom, affluence, and exploration. Aided by the funding of the Virginia Company, roughly one hundred English settlers landed on the North American shore in 1607, at a place they would name Jamestown. In the ensuing decades, more people traveled to this new land, and they expanded their territories, eventually forming the Thirteen Original Colonies. At first glance, the colonies were very much alike, as they had all kept their English culture and remained loyal to England. However, after closer inspection it was evident that many concrete differences existed between the colonies, specifically between the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial regions. Despite the colonies’ loyalty to England and their similar cultures, the Thirteen British North American Colonies had distinct differences in their economies, moral and religious principles, and settling patterns.

It was the age of discovery that first provoked intrigue and curiosity of new lands, particularly the Americas, and how the Europeans could expand to fit their society within the borders of this unknown and unexplored land. By the 1580s, more had been learned about the Americas, but any colonization until this point had not even been attempted. And so it was the English, under Queen Elizabeth I's rule, that were issued to establish a colony along the east coast of North America. However, when this great accomplishment was finally made in 1587, it was not long founded until its ultimate fate ended in the disappearance of the colony three years later, instantly creating one of the greatest

As England started to take enthusiasm toward the "New World", colonization by Englishmen started to spread definitely in the 1600's. English provinces occurred on the eastern bank of the United States. Two early settlements created were in the New England and Chesapeake area. Albeit both were settled to a great extent by individuals of English starting point, by 1700 these two locales had advanced into two different social orders, because of reasons including the purposes behind settlement, topographical contrasts prompting distinctive matters in profit making, religion and legislative issues. The settlement of the New England district was carried out by individuals, basically families, getting away religious mistreatment in England, and

Calvinists also believed that “men were directed to transform the earth according to the divine will of God” (Champagne 1992:15); therefore, men were given complete freedom for environmental domination in order to transform this world that is full of flaws and sins and to appease God. From this perspective, nature is an object to be struggled against and overcome. Furthermore, Christianity, more specifically Calvinist belief, teaches the radical dualism of sacred and profane. From this perspective, this world characterized by sins, flaws, and suffering is profane, drawing comparison a comparison to the sacred afterworld. Native Americans, on the other hand, had less tension in this dichotomous relationship between this-worldliness and otherworldliness. Most Native cultures believed that their institutional and cultural elements, such as ceremonies, kinship, villages, and clans were given as gifts by the “Great Spirit”-- a benevolent and ubiquitous life force of the world. The Great Spirit communicates with humans through intermediaries that reside in nature, which makes Native Americans to live harmoniously with the earth. Everything on earth is considered a spiritual being that needs to be respected to keep the world in balance.

The English were the last people to join in the race for colonies and settlements. But, they did build the first permanent settlements and colonies. Mercantilism started the competitive race for acquiring as much resources as possible, and the way to do that was to colonize untapped land, with untapped resources. The French and Spanish mostly explored, but each nation was looking for gold and silver, land, resources, and dominance in what was dubbed the “New World” by the Europeans. Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to start the first colonies on the American East Coast starting in 1585. The colonies would only last for a short time until everyone went back to England, disappointed, with no gold or silver. In 1587, Raleigh sailed to America again and settled a colony at Roanoke, Virginia. Supply ships never came until 1590, but the colony mysteriously disappeared by then.

It was generally assumed that Roanoke would become the first of many permanent English settlements in the New World; however, those assumptions would prove false after the colonists who travelled there disappeared under mysterious circumstances. For over 400 years, the mystery of the “Lost Colony” has endured in the Chesapeake region of America and has yet to be definitively solved. Beginning in the 1580s, a series of ventures and ill-fated colonization attempts laid the context and set the stage for the greatest vanishing act in American history. From supply shortages and unfavorable weather, to misunderstandings and violent interactions with the indigenous people - all three attempts to settle at Roanoke Island were thwarted in one fashion or another. The third colonization attempt would not prove to be a “charm” for England, as these 118 colonists disappeared with little evidence of what had happened to them.

This similarity happened because both the English and the Spanish thought the Native Americans were savages who needed to be tamed by their religion and value. On the other hand, there was a similarity in the way that the English and Spanish used their religion to control others was completely different. The Spanish used religion as a means to extract labor and supplies from the natives with the Encomienda system. It is in this context that the conquistadors and Spanish Friars set up the encomienda system and the mission system which promised Native Americans “salvation” in return for labor and supplies. This is different from the New England colonies because the English used religion as a strong moral compass, to govern the New England colonists, and to make sure the highest officials shared their beliefs and values. Within the English colonies, government positions were limited to members of the church. This was due to the fact that members of the church or, “the elect,” were

Thesis: The plan of settling the American shoreline was executed when Queen Elizabeth granted a charter for Roanoke Colony to Sir Walter Raleigh. Although, due to deficient relations with the natives, negative geographical timing, and ineffective connections with the mother country (England) from foreign wars, the colonists of this first-ever English American settlement were cursed for failure.

Religion played a significant role in the Native American Society as well as the Puritan Society even though both of them believed in varied ideologies. The Puritan people believed that had selected a few people to join in heaven and live with him. On the other hand, the Natives had a belief that all of us were the same in the eyes of God and no one was greater than the other. These two groups had their meanings propagated in a very much contrasting manner.

The English colonists encountered much tension with their neighbors the native Indians. One of the biggest issues that caused trouble between the two groups was religion. The colonists were very strict in their faith and believed that their religion was the only true path to God. Part of their religious duty

In the late 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I of England endeavored to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. Elizabeth granted English aristocrat Sir Walter Ralegh the rights to introduce a settlement to spread the influence of the Queen and the Christian faith. In 1585, the first English settlers populated the new colony of Roanoke. By establishing Roanoke, the English hoped to launch trade with the Native Americans and mount piracy attacks on the ships of the enemy Spanish fleet. Queen Elizabeth sponsored “privateering” by motivating English sailors to raid and pillage Spanish ships, and having an English colony near the Spanish colonies would increase the effectiveness of privateering. Elizabeth hoped that once the English controlled the entire Eastern Seaboard of the new continent, the Spanish would hardly be a threat. However, the English were hasty in establishing their first settlement and this ultimately lead to the downfall of the colony. Roanoke failed to last for more than a few years and by 1590, the entire colony had disappeared. If the English focused on establishing a safe and durable settlement instead of developing a base for trade, privateering, and further expansion, the first colony of Roanoke could have been successful.

The English were interested in conquering the New World because of money, power, wealth, and freedom of religion. They were capable of settling the New World in the early sixteenth and seventeenth centuries because the English were able to conquer the land that the Native American’s inhabited and take their land. This was due to the fact that they had more advanced weaponry and the Native Americans were not resistant to the diseases that the English brought over from Europe.