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The success of Spain’s colonies in the Americas did not go unnoticed.
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The Virginia Company was a joint-stock company, in which investors bought shares, or part ownership.
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In 1606, England had a new King, James I. He wanted to renew England’s quest for a colony in North America.
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The Powhatan stoped providing food so the winter of 1609-1610 was called “the starving time.”
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In 1620, a group of Separatists decided to move to America and then they became known as pilgrims.
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In 1629, a group of Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Company.
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To the west of Boston is land we now call the Connecticut River Valley.
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By 1660, England had two groups of colonies in North America.
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The English wanted to gain control of the valuable Dutch colony so they decided to send a fleet over to attack.
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In 1675, Wampanoag leader Metacomet waged war against the New England colonies.
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The Quakers, a Protestant group that had been persecuted in England, founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
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The Duke of York decided to divide his colony and then gave the land to the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
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The settlement of Jamestown marked the beginning of English colonization in North America—and of the Virginia Colony.
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Georgia was founded in 1733, and was the last British colony set up in America.
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Maryland arose from the dream of Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
