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James Town
James Town was one of the first successful colonies in the ''New world,"It did nearly fail when the colonist went looking for gold instead of doing their duty's. (founded 1607 abandoned in 1698) -
THE PILGRIMS SETTLED IN PLYMOUTH
They rented a boat called The Mayflower.They elected a governor on the way to the New World his name was John Carver,but he died on the way.They elected a new governor.They were going to go to virginia but they decided to camp out at Plymouth. Half of them died that winter.They met two friendly natives Samoset and Squanto and they taught and traded with them. -
NEW NETHERLAND BECAME NEW YORK
It began as a dutch trading post the Dutch West India Company,the population grew slowly because of the strict regulations of the company.New Netherlands even though it was small they still irritated England, it was the center of illegal trade so the King told his brother to take it over, and he did without firing a shot.in 1664, the monopoly of inland fur trade and the splendid harbor of New Amsterdam became English. The new ruler, the Duke of York. -
THE PURITANS SETTLED IN MASSACHUSETTS
In 1628, a group of wealthy Puritans was given permission to settle within the territory belonging to the Council of New England.(Ignitia.com Editors) Under the name of the Massachusetts Bay Company, these Puritans secured a charter for settlement from the king.They learned from James Town to plan ahead.Colonists to the Massachusetts Bay Colony included merchants, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and ministers. From the very beginning, the Puritan experiment wore the air of success. -
DELAWARE RECEIVED A CHARTER
The Swedes first controlled the land then the dutch took it.Then in 1664, the land came into the hands of the English.William Penn tried to grant the land but it did not have enough coastline.Penn was able to obtain from the English Duke of York the land now known as Delaware.(Ignitia.com Editors) As proprietor of Pennsylvania and Delaware, Penn even helped draw up a constitution named the "Great Law of Pennsylvania" which established the right of colonists to elect their own representatives -
THE QUAKERS PURCHASED NEW JERSEY
In the 1600s the Quakers were being persecuted so they needed a refuge,they fled to the New World when the Duke of York, sold the land between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two of his friends, Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret in 1664. -
THE CAROLINA BEGAN SLOWLY
Shortly after Charles II became king, a group of eight men requested permission to found a colony in the area between Virginia and Spanish Florida.(Ignitia.com Editors)They expected to reap handsome profits from the sales of plenteous land. Unfortunately, for years, nothing but wildflowers blossomed on the sandy beaches of the Carolina. -
GEORGIA WAS FOUNDED AS A PHILANTHROPIC COLONY
Georgia was the last of the English colonies to be founded. By the mid- 1700s, the population of the colonies had swelled to more than a million. One more new colony would help contribute to the growth.(Ignitia.com Editors)Two main reasons for founding a colony in Georgia was to have a "buffer zone" south of the Carolina's to keep the Spanish from moving further north, -
GROWTH OF THE COLONIES
The growth of the 13 English colonies would have been impossible without a constant flow of new settlers from Europe. Though the immigrants followed different patterns of living, all were striving to make a better life for themselves. One of the striking characteristics of the American colonists was that so many of them succeeded.(Ignitia.com Editors),Despite the mother country's attempts to regulate colonial merchants, commerce was the most profitable occupation.it wasn't by accident. -
VARIED LIVING CONDITIONS
One of the striking characteristics of colonial life was the ease with which a person could better his position. Class distinctions did exist in colonial America but they were never as rigid as in Europe.(Ignitia.com Editors),Planters and merchants made up the higher social class of colonists. Planters were large landowners. Most of them lived in the southern colonies. They owned many acres of land and many slaves