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1570
Queen Elizabeth
England was the first country to compete with Spain for claims in the New World, although it was too weak to do this openly at first. But Queen Elizabeth of England supported. Raleigh sent a number of ships to explore the east coast of North America. He called the land Virginia to honor England's unmarried Queen Elizabeth. -
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What would you do if you were at that time?
We would try to make peace between colonies and soldiers. -
Period: 1570 to
How it could change to have a better continent regaridng culture and economy?
It could change making been kind with the native people and change culture with them. -
Roanoke Island
about one-hundred men settled on Roanoke Island, off the coast of the present day state of North Carolina. These settlers returned to England a year later. Another group went to Roanoke the next year. This group included a number of women and children. One reason for the delay in getting supplies to Roanoke was the attack of the Spanish Navy against England in 1588. -
King Phillip
King Phillip of Spain had decided to invade England. But the small English ships combined with a fierce storm defeated the huge Spanish fleet. As a result, Spain was no longer able to block English exploration. England discovered that supporting colonies so far away was extremely costly. -
American Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America, founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared their independence in 1776 and formed the United States. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. -
Death of Queen Elizabeth
So Queen Elizabeth took no more action to do this. It was not until after her death in 1603 that England began serious efforts to start colonies in America. -
The new king
After Queen Elizabeth dead, the new English King, James the First, gave two business groups permission to establish colonies in Virginia, the area claimed by England. Companies were organized to carry out the move. In 1606, members of one such group in the town of Scrooby did separate from the Anglican Church. -
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The London company
The London Company sent one hundred settlers to Virginia in 1606. The group landed there in May, 1607 and founded Jamestown. It was the first permanent English colony in the new world. The colony seemed about to fail from the start. The London Company sent six thousand settlers to Virginia between 1606 and 1622. More than four thousand died during that time. The settlers accepted the Indians' help. The settlers took whatever else they wanted by force. In 1622, 340 settlers died. -
The Colony of Virginia
it was founded by London Company, The Colony of Virginia, chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607, was the first enduring English colony in North America, following failed proprietary attempts at settlement on Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, and the subsequent further south Roanoke Island by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 1580s. -
The Mayflower
The Mayflower was a European cargo ship in the years before its voyage to the New World with the pilgrims. Jones’ first voyage on the Mayflower was to Norway in 1609 where the ship transported fish, lumber, and tar. In May of 1620, religious separatists known as pilgrims hired Jones and his ship to take them to the mouth of the Hudson River in North America where they had been granted permission to build a colony. -
Massachusetts colony
It was founded by Puritans, Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Jamestown colony
The settlers recognized that they would have to grow their own food and survive on their own without help from England or anyone else. The Jamestown colony was clearly established by 1624. It was even beginning to earn money by growing and selling a new crop, tobacco. As happened in Jamestown, about half the settlers in Plymouth died the first winter. -
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The Puritans
The Puritans began leaving England in large groups. Between 1630 and 1640, 20,000 sailed for New England. They risked their lives on the dangerous trip. They wanted to live among people who believed as they did, people who honored the rules of the Bible. Puritans believed that the Bible was the word of God. The Puritans and other Europeans, however, found a very different people in the New World. They were America's native Indians. That will be our story next week. -
Maryland Colony
The Province of Maryland also known as the Maryland Colony was founded in 1632 as a safe haven for English Catholics fleeing anti-Catholic persecution in Europe. The Maryland Colony's first settlement was St. Mary's City, which was built along the Chesapeake Bay. It was the first settlement in the New World to guarantee religious freedom for all Trinitarian Christians. -
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WAGON TRAIN
wagons organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the West during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries, wagon trains soon became the prevailing mode of long-distance overland transportation for both people and goods. -
Interesting Fact Of Maryland Colony
Maryland pulled one over on the Redcoats. During the War of 1812, residents of Saint Michaels, Maryland fooled British artillerymen by hoisting lamps onto ships’ masts and the tops of trees. Only one house was struck, as the height of the lights caused British cannonballs to overshoot the town.
