Summary: European Colonization Of America

labor. Eventually, this had lead to Spain’s failure and resulted in a time of "rapid inflation

Around the 1600’s, New England started to develop a drastic population growth. This growth caused several problems for the occupants including, high prices on food, land, and a shortage of work for many because of the aggressive competition. Immigrants from New England began to prepare for a voyage that would be beneficial for some travelling to Massachusetts and not so much those who were travelling to Virginia. Although the settlers from the Chesapeake Bay and New England came from the same country, these colonies established different societies because of varying elements such as religious freedoms, economy, government’s role in society and unity.

During the seventeenth century, colonial America was welcoming many newcomers, several from England. Quantities of these newcomers were seeking land for economic purposes as others were longing for religious toleration. Many of the English colonists settled in the New England region for religious freedoms, to escape the English king, and leave adversaries of other religions behind. Settlers who resided in the Middle Atlantic region were affected differently. Although the Middle Atlantic was more

1. The main contours of English Colonization in the 17th century were Protestant motives to strike Catholicism, along with solving England’s social crisis. With the rumors of the Spanish Empire’s atrocities reaching England, one motive to colonize the America’s was to strike the Catholics, and save the natives from captivity (Foner 51). This shows an interesting aspect of the English Colonization: the English allowed their people to go colonize just to strike the opposing religious country. Along with this, England sending emigrants over solved their social crisis. Because of England’s growing population and economy, the amount of peasants in cities grew. This is because of landlords using land for sheep, which kicked out peasants from their land (Foner 51-52). England hoped that some people of the lower classes would then go to America: to be out of the big cities where important people were, while still helping England in it’s economy.

These statements suggest that the English didn't come to the Americas simply to plunder gold and riches from the native Indians. As stated in A People and a Nation, "Unlike the Spanish, other European nations did not immediately start to colonize the coasts their sailors had explored. They were interested in exploiting the natural wealth of the region, not in conquering territories."# However, the English did, at times, exploit the Indians for their profit. Actually, they came to America for a number of reasons, but mainly to escape religious persecution and seek a new start in the world. People whom were mere peasants in England, and possessed no land, would soon become owners of many acres of their very own property.

The reason William Bradford and the pilgrims came to the New World was to flee the religious persecution of the Anglican Church in England and come to a place where they could openly be puritan. This started the Great Migration of the Puritans. After them, almost all other emigrants from England to the colonies came for the same principle idea, religious freedom. From this starting principle, different colonies emerged. Two regions within the colonies became the Chesapeake, which consisted of Virginia and Maryland, and New England, which included, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

There are many reasons why the English settlers journeyed to the New World. Religious freedoms and reformation was the first reason. The next was the potential for settlers to start a new, prosperous life. The main reason people came over to the New World was for a quick and easy way to gain more wealth.Many crops were grown but

In the 1700’s England was suffering financially which then was effecting people socially. During this time people were also getting persecuted for what they believed in. These are some of the reasons of why people in England wanted to immigrate to the New World in the 1700’s. After people immigrated two main areas came about the Chesapeake area followed by New England. Although these areas were close they were very distinct societies. The reasons for these different societies were the religions practiced in them, the reasons for immigrating there, and the groups of people who immigrated there.

In the seventeenth century, the populace that left England for America were influenced by the prospects that could either help them personally, or the mother country. The English settled in regions in America based on the religious acceptance of that area and ones that offered a preferable lifestyle.

The earliest successful English colonies of the New England and Chesapeake regions became two distinct societies for Protestant extremist families sought unity among one another through religion, as men of the Chesapeake Bay were concerned with cash crop production to better the domestic English economy, which shaped and the social and societal structure and culture that led to colonial sectionalism. During Queen Elizabeth’s time, England thieved from Spain to obtain wealth, for England was not as rich. England also had an overpopulation issue, which prompted geographer Richard Hakluyt’s suggestion of having people emigrate to a English colony in the Americas. However, failure of Raleigh’s Roanoke colony discouraged Hakluyt’s idea. When King

In the Chesapeake region of Virginia, people mostly came over in search of a profit. There were times in Jamestown when they were so busy looking for gold to profit off of, that they almost starved. However, in the New England region, people mostly came over for religious freedom. An example of this would be the Puritans coming over during the period of Catholic rule in England. Another example was that the Puritans in Massachusetts wanted to create a model society to work together and do God’s work (Doc 1).

The seventeenth century marked the start of great colonization and immigration to the New World that was North America. Mainly in on the eastern coast of what is now the United States, England established colonies on this new land to thrive socially and economically. The English government readily sent its citizens to America to exploit its abundant source of raw materials and the English people exponentially came to the colonies to start a new life for themselves and to thrive socially. In Virginia during the seventeenth century, the geographical attributes in this region allowed the establishment of the cash crop tobacco to rapidly transform the colony socially and economically. Particularly in the Chesapeake Bay, the goal of social and

English were slow to colonize in the New World was because of the critical; religious changes that took place in Europe. It wasn’t until much later did England began to take interest in colonizing in the Americas. At first, England’s interest in the far side of the Atlantic centered primarily on fish because fish was a big part of their English diet. However, as their continental market for English wool began to fail because of the continuous religious conflicts in Europe, English people began to look towards the Americas for new opportunities. England knew that the Spanish and the Portugal had claimed all of the Americas through the Treaty of Tordesillas. However, the English ignored the treaty and began to make attempts to settle in the Americas.

The European conquest of North America was not inevitable. Small groups of Europeans claimed large areas densely populated by hostile Indian nations. The English and Spanish faced particularly fierce resistance from the Wampanoag and Pueblo peoples in present day New England and the American Southwest. The Wampanoags and Pueblos both revolted against European colonization and conquest in 1675 and 1680 due to attacks on their sovereignty, attacks on their welfare, and mass death. The Pueblos were more successful than the Wampanoags because they gained from the revolts while the New England Nations lost everything during King Philip’s War. In both cases, Indian nations formed the first pan-indigenous, anti-European alliances, and Europeans secured a beachhead in North America

North America was a region in the world that was new to many especially the settlers who’d later live there. For thousands of years this region was unknown until men from other countries began traveling from sea to see this part of the world they never knew about. These people who came to what is now known as the United States of America sought to establish a new life. Before the English, Spanish and French colonies stepped foot on North America there were already Indian tribes who inhabited the land. Soon after reaching this land colonist began to settle in and began working and living. Each colony struck an alliance with the native tribes who lived near them. At the same time the colonists weren’t on good terms. The primary role of the Indians