“Unit One Assignment-Focus on Puritanism and Travel Narratives in Colonial America (<1600-1783): The Journals of Captain John Smith, Edited by John M. Thompson” Captain John Smith, was an English soldier and an adventurer, as well as one of the founders of Jamestown, Virginia. Smith also led many expeditions exploring the Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was just one of a hundred and five settlers who set sail from England in1606 looking for something new, and arrived in Virginia in 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and learned that Smith had been chosen to be one of the new seven leaders of the colony. This was also controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny while on the voyage.
The first couple of months in Jamestown were difficult. There was disease, starvation and frequent Indian attacks. Many people also died from the harsh weather and lack of food and water. In 1607 some local Indians captured John Smith and many other colonists. All of the colonists were killed and John Smith was taken to see Chief Powhatan.
The Mayflower Voyage The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World. Their intended destination was a region near the Hudson River, which at the time was thought to be part of the already established colony of Virginia. In 1620, the would-be settlers joined a London stock company that would finance their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620.
Rahul Patel Instructor: Raymond Maxey History 1301-057 19 February 2013 Narrative of the 1584 Voyage (Document 1) Arthur Barlowe was an English explorer and sea captain who helped to lead a reconnaissance expedition to Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina, preparing for a larger English settlement the following year. Little is known about Barlowe's life other than that by early in the 1580s he was a gentleman-soldier attached to Walter Raleigh's household in London. In 1584, Barlowe and Philip Amadas captained two ships that landed at Roanoke Island in what would become the Virginia Colony. The explorers remained in the region for two months, and upon his return Barlowe produced a report, "The first voyage made to the coastes of America," that appeared in Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Principall Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589. An entertaining narrative, Barlowe's report appears to have been based on a ship's log of the voyage, and the final text may have been reworked by others, including Thomas Hariot, Raleigh's primary assistant, and Raleigh himself.
A Comparison on the Colonization Techniques of England and Spain and the resulting outcomes Spain and England are known leaders of the Colonization of the New World. Both countries had a very different approach to how they colonized the New World, and both of them reaped different benefits from colonization. Spain had started their colonization process in 1492 when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World; in 1493 Spain had established their first Colony of Hispaniola. Almost 100 years later, in 1587 England entered the arena with their first settlement on Roanoke Island. This establishment quickly collapsed and the first permanent English colony of Jamestown was established 20 years later in 1607.
In Mexico and Peru, many millions of people died. On some Caribbean islands, entire populations died out completely. In all, between 1492 and 1650, almost 75 percent of the first Americans had died out, while Africa had very little trouble dealing with them. This drastic decrease in population eventually lead to the African Slave Trade to make up for the lack of Native slaves to use. This in turn, lead to the surviving Natives to get infected with the diseases the Africans were carrying, like yellow fever and malaria.
In few years later he had to make an emergency trip back over seas and was arrested under false pretence of being a spy and stayed in prison for 3 months. When returning to New York Crevecoeur found his house burned, farm ravaged, children missing and his wife dead. Crevecoeur worked as a solider, farmer and a government official. Besides the well educated similarities the two come from two different types of lives. Crevecoeur seems to have had more life experience behind him.
Often times, many of us have an inaccurate belief that the Pilgrims, settling the soil in 1620, were the first humans in what is now known as the United States. Loewen actally briefly mentions asking a group of his college students, and that was their general consensus also. However, it is not the truth. A very common argument is that settlers were white, and the Indians did not settle. In fact, the first non-natives to settle the area were actually African slaves left behind by the Spanish in 1526, who left the country after a failing settlement attempt of their own.
My father can’t grow healthy crops to sell anymore. We have no money. It is estimated that nearly 2.5 million Kenyans are close to starvation, well starvation is not close, it’s already happening and me and my family are suffering from it. Who knows what could happen next. It is simply crazy, one day all the water is gone the next thing I see is my aunty dead, who got killed by a flood, alongside more than 1,000 people and 1.8 million people suffering.
Charter companies provided the settlers with materials and boats and they had to found (fonder) a colony whose profits would be shared by those companies. The most famous example was the colony of Virginia where Captain John Smith founded the city of Jamestown in 1605. Then, in 1620, English religious separatists sailed from Holland on board (=à bord de) the Mayflower and stopped in Plymouth on their way to the new world. They wanted to go to Virginia but they landed further north and decided to found the colony of New Plymouth. Their adventure is known as that of (= Celle de) “Pilgrim Fathers”.