Jamestown, Virginia vs. Massachusetts Bay Settlements In the early 1600s, Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts were two of the first successful English colonies in North America. Jamestown was established in 1607 and the Massachusetts Bay migration began in 1630. Although the two settlements occurred over twenty years apart from each other, they shared quit a few similarities in their early settlement experiences. For both settlements, the early years were very difficult, facing the harsh winter weather, disease, sickness, famine and conflict with the natives. In 1607, the London Company of England began as a business venture , by a joint stock company, to provide them with raw materials, from the southern tributaries in North America (lecture, 24 Oct 2012).
The story of this battle goes back to the early journeys of French and English explorers into the new land and world of North America. England’s first exploration of the new world, North America, happened in 1497 by an explorer named John Cabot. He landed in Canada in present day Newfoundland in hope to find a “northwest passage” though North America to Japan and China for the trade of their tea, spices, and silk. Although he was unsuccessful, he sparked lots of interest in the English that had followed him. One famous settler that he sparked interest in was Captain John Smith.
1595: First Dutch fleet arrives in India. 1689: Gutenberg prints bible in movable type. Part 2: Event: Christian humanism spreads in northern Europe. Causes: * Martin Luther began the Reformation in the early sixteenth century; several earlier developments had set the stage for religious change, one such development grew from
Late 15th C. Spain became united and due to the fact that the Portuguese controlled trade routes in Africa and Asia they looked west. Christopher Columbus, exploring in the name of Spain, discovered the Bahamas in 1492. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided SA land between Spain and Portugal. Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean while Magellan circumnavigated the globe. Leon explored Florida and Coronado explored Arizona and New Mexico.
Fort Nassau became Fort Orange in 1624, competing with the French and English trade centers in Canada and the Great Lakes region until the end of the eighteenth century. Initially, the Dutch cultivated a positive relationship with the Mahicans and Mohawks, and the fur business thrived. The van Rensselaer family(Killiaen, the patriarch never visited his “bouwerie”), from Nijkerk in the Dutch Republic, established its fiefdom in 1632, amassing one million acres on both sides of the Hudson River. His sons managed the farm, fur trade, and commerce with New Amsterdam, Amsterdam, and later, New York. In 1664, when New Netherland was ceded to the English, Beverwijck was renamed Albany.
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Dutch Colonization of Hudson River valley and New Amsterdam The time and place of Dutch colonization of Hudson River valley and New Amsterdam was in the Hudson River area and New Amsterdam from Holland, from the 1610s and forward to 1945. Considering the migration was from Holland to the Americas, it was out of the country, and the main purpose was to find the new world and a water system passage that would cut cleanly through the pacific end for sea fairing and to sell fur, for the fur traders that were back home in Europe. This migration had officially begun in the very early 1600s, after early trading expeditions, that the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615 near Fort Nassau, on Castle Island in the Hudson River, close to present-day Albany, New York. Many Dutch entrepreneurs had sailed to the Americas near Fort Nassau to exchange European goods and sell fur trade with the close relations they created with the Five Nations of the Iroquois, who were the key to the heartland from which the furs came. The Dutch had done this obviously for their own individual voluntary reasons, such as providing money for their loved ones and to fit the growing demand of fashion; for the pelts’ fur was used mostly for lining clothes.
Lizzy Long 1)After rocky beginning,success finally rewarded the exertion of France in the New world.In 1608 France established the beginning of a vast empire in Canada when they founded the city of Quebec on the St.Lawrence River. 2)In 1754 the government of Virginia ushered George Washington , a twenty-one year old Virginian,onto the stage of history.He was sent to the Ohio country as a lieutenant colonel in command of about 150 Virginian militiamen.Encountering a small detachment of French troops in the forest about forty miles from Fort Duquesne,the fired the first shots of the French and Indian War. (also known as the Seven Year War) In 1755 the English sent General Baddock, with a strong detachment of British regulars.to move
Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. His historical findings changed our scientific understanding of the natural world. We acknowledge the spherical Earth, the use of the trade winds, and new plant and animal life he introduced to the “New World.” During his lifetime, Columbus led a total of four expeditions to the New World discovering many of the Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central America main lands. On October 12, 1492, after a thirty-three-day voyage from the Canary Islands, Columbus landed in San Salvador in the eastern Bahamas. He thought San Salvador was
On February 2, 1766, forty-one days after his ship had left Boston's harbor, the Indian Samson Occom recorded in his diary, "About 10 in the morning, we discovered the land of England." Almost three centuries after Columbus had brought news of the existence of a New World to Europe, a descendant of the people who had met the explorer on its shores had embarked on his own voyage of discovery. However, by the mid-eighteenth century, Indians were not the only North Americans for whom Britain was a strange and distant land. Although emigration to the colonies continued to be an important factor in the rapid growth of North America throughout the eighteenth century, after 1700 the birth-rate was by far the most significant element in the spectacular