Why Was Colony Established

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Jose F Suarez American history project #1 Cuba. Virginia 1) Why was colony established? At the beginning of the c.1500 century the European continent was devastated by and was in desperado need for territorial expansion, there were the bubonic stink and many other diseases that had claimed the lives of many European citizens and they growling the cities, the old continent was devastating. The possibility of expansion was a dream coming to be for those European countries, with Spain and Portugal as the pioneers of the great adventure, finding gold will solved the economic situation of Europe. Great interest in America colonization was awakened throughout the Kingdom by a little book on “western planting” inspired by Raleigh and writing by Richard Hakluyt. In 1606 two companies were formed, Virginia was divided into two parts and a part granted to each, the London Company and the Plymouth Company. They obtained a royal charter to found a colony grating the right to coin…show more content…
The voyage was long and dreary. Entering Chesapeake Bay they named the two projecting points at its sides Cape Henry and cape Charles, after the two sons of the king as first of the permanent settlement. It will be difficult to imagine a set of man less fitted to build a colony and found a nation than were those who settle at Jamestown in 1607. Among them were twelve laborers, a blacksmith, a mason, a barber, and a tailor. There was Winfield, who becomes the first president of the governing council. They soon erected a few tents and small cabins. For a church they nailed a board between two trees, stretched a canvas over it, and beneath this rev. Robert Hunt held services to the rites of the Church of

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