Why Was Charles Town Difficult To Settle?

The geography, primarily the distances between settled areas in Texas was a real problem for the colonization of Texas by the Spaniards. The Spanish were well established in Mexico City in the south and in New Mexico to the north. However, the distance from Mexico City and the missions in San Antonio was about 700 miles (Doc A). Also, the distance from San Antonio to Santa Fe, New Mexico was about the same distance of 700 miles (Doc A). These were the two closest developed areas to the new colonies. In those days, travel was primarily by mule train and it would take around two months to travel these distances (Doc A). These vast distances made it difficult for trade and made it expensive to transport needed supplies to the newly settled areas. The expense of transportation between settlements lead to very slow economic development and without a chance to make a living people were just not willing to move to the new settlements. In addition to the distances, the land in the area was characterized by very rough terrain and with very little water (Doc A). Since travel was by animals pulling wagons the availability of fresh water was important in order to water the mules and

In 1629 King Charles decided to make England a colony. In 1729 north and South Carolina a colony. The colony's were taken over by the King and started to be a colony. The first settlement was Charles Town’s. England was one of the colonies.

Able to save the colony with help from the Iroquois and Cherokee. Looking to find a valuable export Carolina tried supplying the the West Indies with livestock and lumber. This although lead to a different export which made Carolina the lead producer of tar. Continuing to experiment with other valuable crops the Carolina’s began planting rice in the 1690’s. This lead to Carolina’s specialization in Rice just as the West Indies were with sugar. Producing also another valuable crop called indigo which created a surge in exports. With all these valuable exports Carolina became of the wealthiest colonial elite. With the amount of plantation Carolina soon had more African slaves than colonists. This lead to the same fear in Barbados with thoughts that the African majority would rebel. With this Carolina adopted the same strict rules against slaves that was used in the West Indies. During the late 1720’s as the hold on the frontier strengthened colonists founded a new colony named Georgia. Led by James Oglethorpe Georgia became a population with a mix of wealthy merchant, gentry, and Anglican

The problems that made Charles Town difficult to settle was geography, resources, wildlife, diseases and natives. All of these factors contributed to the harsh settlement of South Carolina. I believe that this journey was lengthy and treacherous. Many obstacles were in the way of Charles Town like inaccurate maps, wildlife, soil, land, natives and diseases. All settlers faced trial and error to get to this open port and trade goods. Later Charles Town, was very successful and had one of the best ports and well

The new world opened a whole host of possibilities for Europeans. Farmers and Businessmen flocked to the Chesapeake region to work the land. Thousands of Puritans created religious settlements throughout New England. The colonies of the new world were no shabby villages, they were sprawling cities, towns, and farms. This society that needed more people to build it up opened the doors for new groups. With the new world thriving, vast religious colonies in the New England region and farming colonies in the South, naturally next to cross the Atlantic were immigrants from all over, hopping into the melting pot and altering the social fabric of the colonies.

The Age of Exploration was a time of many new settlements throughout the world, of those Charles Town was the most successful, yet difficult settlement in South Carolina. Lord proprietor Anthony Ashley Cooper, wanted to build a settlement called Charles Town, at Albemarle Point along the Ashley river. However, there were various struggles, so he needed funding and support from England. Then when they received support, Charles Town became a successful settlement. What were the struggles of settling Charles Town? It was difficult to settle Charles Town because of the geography, resources, and diseases and conflict with the Native Americans.

By the year 1700, family demographics and religion of New England were completely dissimilar to those of the Chesapeake region. The differences in unification and society varied so much between the two settlements due to who settled there. Climate and geographic features also shaped the colonies as they formed and expanded.

This area was very popular with the English government mainly because it apparently had tons of gold, the search for this gold led to the development of Jamestown in Virginia. When the people found out that there wasn’t any gold there to begin with, they realized how this area had many other high-points. It had marvelous farming land and temperature. When word got out, the English sent out even more settlers to the area and brought with them slaves galore. This led to the development of the plantation; which was perfect with the large area span and the hot temperatures, sadly the slaves were treated horribly and weren’t even

Charles Town was difficult to settle because of the geography, resources and disease. One reason why Charles Town was difficult to settle was the geography of the land. According to the map of Charles Town in Document A, there was a lot of rivers this was good for transportation. Rivers were bad for building and exploring.

Why was Charles Town so difficult to settle? Charles Town proved to be difficult to settle for many reasons. Although, there were many advantages for settling in the area, there were also many disadvantages that discouraged settling. For example, the weather was unfavorable, there were low sources of food, and the natives were not very friendly. Also, the location was not very secure and was vulnerable to attacks on the port.

The main reason why Charles Town was hard to settle was because of diseases and the Native Americans. There was a dangerous disease spreading across Charles Town called smallpox. Eliza Pinckney describes this as “a great cloud over this province”and said that it was killing off settlers and making colonists close down businesses, and also that several of her trade partners left because of the disease. This was bad for both Charles Town and England because trade would stop, and if that happened it would slow down business. Smallpox made Charles Town hard to settle because it slowed and shut down

History is comprised of actual accounts of things that happened, forces that have shaped us, and lessons that we gain. As stated in the introduction, ““Wee will have noe Lords, noe Landgraves noe Cassiques we renounce them all.” With these words, the earliest settlers of North Carolina declared their complete rejection of any social hierarchy in their colony” (I). In Noeleen McIlvenna’s book, A Very Mutinous People, McIlvenna discusses how North Carolina doing their own thing made North Carolina’s history much different from that of any other early North American colony. It is said that, “North Carolina’s story fits none of the familiar models of colonial American history” (14). As a whole, this book reviews the political struggles of the earliest settlers in North Carolina and their eventual loss of freedom. Many were there to escape debt, persecution, and indentured servitude. They became closely allied in the political and sometimes physical fight to retain their lack of connection to the gentrified world.

Another reason of why Charles Town was complicated to settle was because of diseases like smallpox.It seemed like every settler had smallpox,even Eliza Lucas Pinckney wrote it on a letter “A great cloud seems at present to hang over this province.” and refered to the smallpox.Due to all of the smallpox a lot of buisness stopped.

Imagine going to a new land and settling there not knowing what to do. Well English colonist experience this but didn’t go well for them. In 1607 - 1611 English settlers sailed up to the coast of Virginia to find a new trade route. They ended up in a land that they named Jamestown but out of a sudden they started to die. Many colonist died for three main problems. Theses problems were issues with water, colonist lacked in survival skills, and poor relationship with Native American.

The cultural background of an area can change a lot of the art and architecture of the landscape, the type of culture that they follow, and the economic systems of the people. St.Charles is a prime example of a landscape that was shaped by its earliest civilization. Swedish culture is very prominent in the area of St.Charles, due to the plethora of Swedish settlers during the 1840’s. The lesser known background of the area is about the Native American community that was lead by Chief Pottawatomie who lead his tribe into the Black Hawk war. When the war was over, the land was open to settlers, which inspired the Swedish immigrants. I learned a lot about the development of St.Charles at the St.Charles History Museum, which was the first place