Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands The Roanoke fiasco reduced the colonizing enthusiasm in England, but by the end of the 1600s, the effort to create permanent settlements in the New World began again. The European settlers tried their best to isolate themselves from the natives. They formed enclosed societies with its own institutions in order to do so.
The Early Chesapeake Money became a problem after James I issued his 1606 charters to the London and Plymouth Companies. After trying and failing to establish a colony, The London group launched an expedition to Virginia on the Godspeed, the Discovery, and the Susan Constant.
A. The Founding of Jamestown The men established Jamestown in 1607, which was located on the James…show more content… Settlers and Natives
The Native American population was almost extinguished by sickness by the mid- 1630s, the natives who survived sold a lot of their land to the English.
E. The Pequot War, King Philip’s War, and the Technology of Battle
The Pequot War (1637) was the first major conflict and the bloodiest, the English settlers allied with the Narragansett and Mohegan Indians and, under Captain John Mason, they set the Pequots on fire; those who did not die in the fire, were killed as they tried to escape, hunted, or sold as slaves.
III. The Restoration Colonies Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were the only colonies established for a while because it was busy dealing with problems at home.
A. The English Civil War
James I’s opposition was widespread, but Charles I ruled as an absolute monarch, alienated a growing number of his subjects (mostly Puritans), and levied new taxes.
B. The Carolinas
Charles II’s favorite eight proprietors received communal title to an extensive territory from south to Florida and west to the Pacific, they got almost kingly powers over their grant. Charles Town had a prosperous economy and a more aristocratic society., with the help of a flourishing
