In 1637, Swedish, Dutch and German shareholders created the New Sweden Company to trade for furs and tobacco in North America. In 1637, Swedish, Dutch and German shareholders created the New Sweden Company to trade for furs and tobacco in North America. In March 1638, their ships arrived at the Delaware Bay. From 1626 to 1631, Peter Minuit was the first governor of New Netherland, which was dutch colony on Manhattan Island. Peter Minuit built a fort at Wilmington Delaware, and they named it fort Christina after their queen.
The purposes of Fort Christina were to bring Christian religion into America, expand Swedish territory, gain trade advantages, and fort Christina was the first established European settlement in the Delaware valley.
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The supplies that the second Swedish expedition brought was soldiers, priest, Colonists, paraphenelia that could be traded with the Indians, and Peter Hollender Ridder the new Governor. Ridder was very important in the development of the colony. Ridder wanted to make the colony’s borders larger, even though they had a great deal of land for their minuscule population. Ridder met with the local Indian chiefs and bought a title to the land from the Schuylkill tributary to Trenton, New Jersey. Today, the purchases of Minuit and Ridder would make up one hundred and twenty miles of land on both banks of the Delaware River. In 1639, the Dutch had begun to question Swedish claims to the land on the Delaware River, but since they both had hardly any soldiers, neither side was able to make a definite move. From 1641 to 1642, they worked together to eliminate a group of sixty English men and women, who had come to establish England’s claim to the region. The first English settlers on the Delaware River were representatives of the English Delaware Company located in New Haven, Connecticut. They found that the area around the Delaware River had a very small population. They successfully purchased land from the …show more content…
Fort Casimir surrendered without a shot and was re-named Fort Trinity. In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant controlled the Dutch capital of New Amsterdam. After he arrived in New Sweden, he tried to oust the Dutch from the colony by seizing Fort Casimir. Fort Casimir surrendered without a shot and was re-named Fort Trinity. Peter Stuyvesant allowed the colonists to remain as a "Swedish Nation", be ruled by a court of their choice, be free to practice their religion, organize their own militia, keep their land, Continue to trade with the Indians. This independent "Swedish Nation" remained until 1681 when William Penn received his charter for Pennsylvania and the three lower counties. The Swedes did not begin to arrive in the United States in large quantities until the 19th century. Swedish immigration was highest between 1867 and 1914 because of poor local financial circumstances in Sweden, and the availability of inexpensive land in the American West. At the highest point of immigration in the 1880s, about 37,000 Swedes came to the United States annually. Most of the new settlers went to Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, California and Washington. These states have the largest numbers of Swedish Americans
New Netherlands, later named New York, was originally established by the Dutch West India Company until they gave it up to England in 1664. When a French Jesuit missionary visited New Netherlands, he noted that nineteen different languages were being spoken in the streets. Even after the Dutch gave New Amsterdam to England, it still remained its diversity. Pennsylvania was also known for its ethnic diversity. Quakers, Germans, Scotch-Irish, etc. moved into Pennsylvania and created the “Blue Laws.” Many Germans settled down in southeastern Pennsylvania and northwestern Virginia (Document D). In document C, different ethnic groups came to North America as indentured servants to pay off their passage. Swedes settled down in Delaware in 1703. Ethnic groups brought in different cultures to the English
In 1584, Raleigh was granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to colonize in America (Lane). Raleigh sent explorers Philip Amadas, and Artur Barloue to scout the island of Roanoke. They returned a year later with Native Americans Manteo and Wanchese (Manteo). Roanoke was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. Roanoke was found 22 years before Jamestown and 37 years before the pilgrims (Lane). Raleigh sent a party of 100 soldiers, miners, and scientists to Roanoke Islands. The first party of men were directed by Ralph Lane, they were doomed from the beginning. They arrived too late for planting and supplies were running out quickly. To make things even worse they were rivaling with the neighboring natives. Ralph Lane sealed their fate when he killed the natives chief Wingina. By 1586 Sir Francis Drake who was headed back to England stopped by and Lane and his men had enough. They left the fort behind and headed back to England. Supply ships soon arrived not knowing they had left and found the island deserted. They left fifteen men behind to watch the fort. Raleigh was angry with Lane for leaving, but he did not quit
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 second English colony was Jamestown. Jamestown was founded by the Virginia Company which was a joint-stock company chartered by King James I. The Virginia Company was made up of two different parties, each with their own goals. The goal of the monarchy was to convert Native Americans to Christianity, whereas the goal of the stock holders who funded the colony was to generate profits. The reason for the location of Jamestown was decided because it was located on a river with a northwest bend in hopes of finding the ever elusive route to Asia.
Long before the Founding Fathers, European countries built settlements in the wilderness of the New World. During the 1600’s, English settlers founded Plymouth and Jamestown along the Eastern Coast of North America. Puritans established Plymouth to escape the Catholic Church of England. The Virginia Company established Jamestown in search of fortune. Both settlements managed unavoidable contact with the natives. Although both Plymouth and Jamestown’s interactions with Native Americans included early encounters, diplomatic intermediaries, and peace treaties, Jamestown’s approach differed from by displaying less aggression.
The creation of Jamestown started on May 24, 1607. Captain Christopher Newport led three ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery. "They named both the river and their colony after King James I of England" (Jamestown 28). They did not want to leave England completely or they would not have named those two things after him. They probably felt that they needed to name these things after him because he was the main leader and investor of the expedition. The colonies agriculture and Industry started off slow. "They failed to produce silk, grapes, and other items because of the Virginia climate" (Jamestown 29). They had trouble growing these because they thought that they would grow as they did in England but the climate was much different. They brought a lot of stuff over that they thought would work but did not and this trial and error resulted in a long process before they finally found the first product that grew or worked. "The first agricultural products to be successfully raised were hogs and Indian corn" (Jamestown 29). There was more than one leader that contributed to keeping Jamestown up and going. Captain
There were no individual founders of New Amsterdam it was mainly just the Dutch traders and the soldiers who protected the trading post. In 1629 Dutch settlers joined the Dutch West India Company to grow trade in and out of the city making it very wealthy.In 1626 Peter Minuit was ordered by the Dutch West India Company to purchase the whole region from the native Canarsees tribe. In 1662 King Charles II claimed the land and renamed it after the his brother the Duke Of York. The population of the colony was made up of Dutch, French, German, Scandinavians, Brazilians and slaves. Many tradesmen came to the colony because of the better religious freedom,self-government, and free tax-free land.
The first establishment of the New World was Jamestown in 1607. This colony was founded by King James I. King James sent merchants and adventurers that were looking to profit from land and wealth to the New World just as the Spaniards did in Mexico and Peru. The London Company issued a Virginia charter to form plantations in Virginia. This was lead by Sir Thomas Smith, one of the wealthiest merchants aboard the ships to the New World. There were approximately 104 settlers that arrived on a peninsula along the James River. These settlers wanted to make a profit to take back to England. This peninsula was known as Jamestown. The colonists in this low lying swamp area was stricken with disease, contaminated drinking water, and was attacked by Spaniards or Native Americans. This was a serious threat to the early settlers of Jamestown.
“The new world had an extraordinary richness of languages”(Native peoples prior to European arrival).In the fifteenth century, people in Europe began to explore west to seek new lands and resources because of economic problems.The Europeans came to America to look for gold and silver, but the trip would be difficult and dangerous because there were no maps and not much knowledge on how to get there.Prince Henrey took the challenge to make it possible for others to sail to the Americas without any knowledge on how to get there.He created a place where people who were interested could share their knowledge about geography.People learned about maps and navigation.Then, Henrys sailors finally decided to lead others to go west where eventually Jamestown would be created.In 1606, King James told the three royal charters to create a comfortable colony on the east coast.The English worried about being attacked from the Spanish so they chose almost an island where they parked their ships by tying them to the trees available.To honor the king, they named the place Jamestown(Culters at Jamestown).
This company hired an English explorer, Henry Hudson, to seek great riches. He sailed into the Delaware Bay and New York Bay in 1609 and then ascended the Hudson River. He filed a Dutch claim to a wooded and watered area. The Dutch West India Company was less powerful than the Dutch East India Company, and was based in the Caribbean. It was more interested in raiding than trading.
In the beginning of 17 century a group of merchants established first permanent English colonies in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. Englishmen expected to find gold. Moreover, Virginia Company offered 50 acres of land everyone who journeying to Virginia. They wanted to attract many people to expand their possessions in colony. Determinant factor in the
Settlers in the Chesapeake region used force to take possession of Indian lands. The Chesapeake region of the colonies included Virginia, Maryland, the New Jerseys and Pennsylvania. In 1607, Jamestown (the first English colony in the New World) was founded by a group of settlers along the James River. And because the colony was near water, the Pilgrims had a great advantage. They created a society that was full of companies
Once the English colonists decided on a site for their settlement they quickly set to work, as Thomas Abby tells us, "Now falleth every man to worke, the Councell contrive the Fort, the rest cut downe trees to make place to pitch their Tents; some provide clapboard to relade the ships, some make gardens, some nets, &c. The Salvages often visited us kindly(Tyler, 123)."
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The 17th century was also notable for the Danish colonization of Greenland and the West Indies. Though Greenland was under the sovereignty of Denmark since Denmark’s union with Norway in the 16th century, many expeditions and attempts at colonization failed throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, due to Greenland’s harsh climate and lack of natural resources. In contrast, the Danish colonization of the West Indies was much more profitable. Denmark’s first colony was in St. Thomas in 1665, followed by ones in St. John and St. Croix. In the first half of the 18th century the Caribbean Sea and the Virgin Islands were partly controlled by the Danish West India and Guinea Company, a company started in the mid-1600s. In the 17th and 18th centuries