The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
chapter 7 Early Days in the Colonies A s the Spaniards had guessed, the English were initially more interested in creating a bas ...
rename the land the resident Indians called Tsenacomacoh after Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen,” Virginia. Meanwhile, he commission ...
could be, and they determined to support it. They received support in London when Thomas Hariot’s Brief and True Report of the N ...
ATLANTIC OCEAN English Colonies 0 100 200 miles Colonies in 1660 Colonies, 1660-1700 Savannah Colonies, 1700-1760 Kingston Harri ...
Armada made colonialism in North America feasible. With the mortal threat to England ended, a new venture could be mounted. What ...
the company was profitable: over the decade and a half of its life, its invest- ment of the then huge sum of £50,000 yielded no ...
The earlier explorers had written glowingly about Virginia. It was touted as a re-creation of the garden of Eden where fruits an ...
ries and other fruits unknown. We saw the woods full of cedar and cypress trees, with other trees which issues out sweet gums li ...
hungry, the passengers tore into the colony’s small store of corn “and in three days, at the most, wholly devoured it.” Their ow ...
vermine as doggs Catts Ratts and myce.... And now famin begineinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face that notheinge was sp ...
Governor Dale mounted an expedition to destroy all signs of French occu- pation along the northern coast. Luckily for them, the ...
only problem: soon the settlers began building a “pale” such as the English had built in Ireland. Getting behind a wall was almo ...
no more than about five steps in either direction lived not only a family but often also one or more servants. In one house in J ...
As was done in England at the time, colonists cooked in iron pots or skillets and then poured the food onto wooden “trenchers.” ...
desperately short supply in England which had been deforested by ship- building, heating, and iron smelting. So even before Jame ...
ness, then by crueltie or roughness... there must bee presented unto them gratis, some kindes of our pettie marchandizes and tri ...
consuming task, it was obviously cheaper to take land from the Indians. But Indian agricultural lands could not satisfy the incr ...
so often did, they suspected the Indians of plotting retaliation and so moved peremptorily to attack them. In June 1586, they ki ...
of London feared competition and tried to prevent the initial group of about 200 colonists from sailing. When his ships ArkandDo ...
should be made for the same, and thus upon the 27. day of March, Anno Domini, 1634, the Governour tooke possession of the place, ...
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