The Decline Of The 19th Century

One of the main reasons Europeans sought to explore the world was to spread Christianity. As far as they knew, the New World had never heard of Christianity, and the Spanish Cardinal Trinlini said that this made them “heathens [who] live a barbarous life”. His motivation for exploring these new lands was to save the natives from their ignorance

The history of these two settlements begins in the early 17th century when King James I issued a charter between two rival groups of merchants, the London Company (later renamed the Virginia Company) whose interests were in colonizing Virginia, and the Plymouth Company who had interests further north (Brinkley, 23). The charter gave the London Company exclusive rights to colonize the south, and the Plymouth Company received the same rights for the north (Brinkley, 23-24). It is through the efforts of these companies that the first permanent English colonies would be established (Brinkley, 24).

Europeans came to America out of a desire for gold, God, and glory. Many notable explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortez traveled to the New World and encountered native populations. Columbus tried to convert

Spain, Portugal, and France sought to convert natives to the Roman Catholic Church, while England and the Netherlands believed that Catholicism was corrupt, and attempted to build support for the Protestant movement in the New World.

The European expansion during the 15th and 16th centuries lead to major economic expansion throughout Europe and the newly established

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.

There were many reasons the New World was the most wanted to explore. The Spanish, French, and English came about the New World the same way but for different reasons. The Spanish came in search for God, Gold, and Glory. The French, for money and religious conversions of Native Americans; and the English, to find religious freedom. Each of these empires expected to come and establish a powerful empire in the New World but came across difficulties along the way, their values dictating how they run their colonies.

Settlement of Virginia started with James I becoming king and making peace with Spain who at that time had control over North America; as well as the Native Americas. Charter London Company was mainly started to fund the vogue to Jamestown. The idea behind the company was to give investors land, gold, and goods, for investing in help of settlement in Virginia. The settlement of Jamestown was to find more trade and resources. In 1607 Jamestown was colonized but early on there was crises. Lack of food, and new diseases caused many settlers to die. As well as Spanish and Native American attacked the new settlers seeing them as threats and intruders. With low farmers food was scarce and Atlantic crossing was a 3 months sail in order to send messages to England. In order to survive Jamestown

The premier reason for the differentiation of the evolvement was primarily due to the motives for the foundations of these regions. The Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I of England to establish Jamestown in 1607 in the New World as a profit-making venture. Like most joint stock companies, the Virginia Company was designed to last for a few years dedicated to the proposition that all stockholders should receive dividends adequate for their investments. Conversely, New England's motives for its foundation arose for religious

European nations in the 15th century began exploring new lands with three motives: religion, wealth, and glory. It was made possible by advances in naval fleet building and navigation, first pioneered by the Portuguese. Europeans began to be involved in extensive exploration, coming in contact with Africa, Americas and their prime target Asia. The main targets of the pioneering Portugese and Spanish was to find and alternate trade route for the Indies trade and also promote Christianity to the new lands. As the century unfolded, the search for newer territories to colonize and shortern routes to the exotic land of spices and silk became the initial driving force for the intensive early exploration by the Europeans .

The members of the new joint stock company awarded a share to those willing to come to Virginia at their own expense as well as sold stock in their quest to English investors. With the money raised from the sale of stocks, the company planned to send Virginia hundreds of poor and unemployed people along with many kinds of skilled craft workers. All of these people were to serve the company for seven years in return for the cost of getting them to Virginia. There they would pool their efforts to produce anything that would return a profit for the shareholders. The goal was gold and silver, but if it could not be found perhaps North America held another valuable commodity such as furs, pitch, tar, or lumber. The first expedition dispatched by the Virginia Company founded Jamestown in the spring of 1607. Jamestown’s 104 men and boys pitched their fort on a swampy inland peninsula in order to prevent a surprise attack from the Spanish. That was their first mistake. They died by the scores weakened by bouts of disease and beset by dysentery, typhoid, and yellow fever. But even before sickness wiped out many, a lot of the colonists of Jamestown refused labor. The gentlemen of the journey expected to be leaders rather than to do physical labor, and most of the other early settlers were gentlemen’s servants and craft workers who did

On the other hand, On April 10, 1606 James I issued a charter to the virgina company which was a joint stock company.(Powerpoint English colonization) Later that year in December 120 male settlers settled to Virginia, which later led to the foundation of Jamestown.( Powerpoint English colonization A year later May 1607

First, they had King James l assign the First Charter of Virginia to them. It stated that the land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of increasing the Christian religion. A joint-stock company was founded to establish Jamestown with the idea to find success just as the Spanish had done. Their plan had not turned out how hey had expected, they started to starve because they were unprepared only focusing on their search for gold. The House of Burgesses decided to elect a new leader, John Smith, he said "He that will not work shall not eat!". Jamestown was on the brink of death when John Rolfe stepped in. He had stolen tobacco seeds from the Spanish and started planting the cash-crop all around Jamestown, saving the colonies life.

Jamestown was founded in 1607, but the charter was signed by King James in 1606. The Virginia Company, a joint stock company, funded the new venture to start the settlement of Jamestown. The Virginia Company wanted to find gold on the northern part of Florida, but there was none. In the years between 1608 and 1610, Jamestown was trading with Indians. John Smith explored and restored order in Jamestown, but in 1609 when he left to return to England more than 100 settlers died that winter. In the spring of 1610, just as the surviving settlers were going to abandon Jamestown, De La Warr comes with 150 more settlers and supplies. He takes the sick back to England, but leaves his second in

In 1607, under King James I, the Virginia Company was granted a charter, giving the company the right to settle anywhere from roughly present-day North Carolina to New York state. Aristocrats and gentlemen, seeking their fortune, embarked on the adventure of their lifetime. They reached Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607, and named their settlement, Jamestown in honor of the King. Ill-equipped for the intense labor and harsh conditions that lay ahead, for many of them, this