Britsh+Settlement

 BRITISH SETTLEMENT   1607-1773

The French and Dutch established and extensive fur trade and the Spanish conquered as they searched for gold and silver, the English arrived with a completely diferent purpose: to find religous freedom, and to settle, own land, and make new homes for themselves and their families. The English established colonies in Virginia, Maryland,Massachusets, Rhode Island, Conecticut and New Hampshire. They learned wher to hunt and fish and grow new crops. Also they learned how to recognize new plants that were edible,those that were not, and ones that were used as medicine. The European belief that ladn could be owned by individuals was a at odds with Native American beliefs and friction increase. By the time the American Revolutionary war ended (1783), few Native Americans lived in the Northeast. Most of them have been killed or forced to leave their lands.

One of the persons that was in the British settlement was John Smith. He was an English adventurer and soldier, he was also one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement. Smith was one of the 105 settelers who sailed form England to Virginia. The left England on December 19,1606 and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. The settlers establishes Jamestown, on May 24, 1607; it became the firts permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was located on a island in the James River in what is now Virginia. One time Smith was held captive by the Powhatan Indians. He was going to get killed, but the cheifs daughter Pocahontas (1595-1617) saved John Smith. By the end of the first year, most of the settlers had died of starvation or disease. Smith sailed again to America in 1614, travelling to what he called New England, the area from Maine and Massachusetts. After he returned to England with furs, but never returned to Virginia. John Smith died in June, 1631. The British colonies in America were: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Conneticut.

In 1619 twenty Africans landed in Jamestown, Virginia. They, along with some Eurpoeans, came as indentured servants. PICTURES AND VIDEOS

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