The British Colonization Of America Summary

The British Colonization of America
Uros Jevtic
Salem University The British Colonization of America
Many European countries tried to colonize the cost of North America by sending ships and small fleets to obtain these lands. Hungry for gold and desperate to obtain it, Europeans would do anything to complete their mission Each of the powers of western Europe set itself the objective of making itself supreme within the circle of its own competitors. Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1613) declared: “Who rules the trade of the world rules the wealth of the world and consequently the world itself.” To achieve this meant to overcome the rival in war, to surpass him in the effective exploitation of the home population, to secure ownership …show more content…
The more colonies you had the less had the opponent. The colonies where sources of raw materials and owning them relieved one of dependence upon foreign powers who served as the suppliers. The colonies were fountains of enormous wealth, directly in terms of their products, as lumber, fur, gold, naval stores, fish, tobacco, indigo, rice, etc., and somewhat less directly through the profits to be made by trade in these thousand and one precious commodities. The colonies were sources of manpower for the armies and navy’s. The colonies were markets wherein might be sold, at high profits the slaves to produce many of the enriching commodities, and the manufactured goods that they would need but that they would be forbidden to make themselves (Aptheker, 1979, p.23). England established its first permanent North American colony in Jamestown in 1607. The Jamestown expedition was financed by the “Virginia Company” of London. This company sent out three small ships from London, the “Sarah Constant”, “Godspeed”, and the “Discovery” with 140 men and four boys. These ships were under the command of an experienced navigator, Captain Christopher Newport. The …show more content…
The first three years of the colonies existence were a period of weakness, confusion, controversy, disease, starvation, and death (Barck & Lefler, 1968, p.40). Diseases and starvation wasn’t the only problem the settlers had when they came to this land. Many Native American tribes lived here and weren’t so happy about the Europeans or in this case the British colonizing their land. The settlers were running out of food and supplies which lead them to steal from the Indians. When the Native Americans saw that the English began to steal their food supplies they cut of the food stock, leaving the English to subsist on frogs and snakes, and even decaying corpses. Captain John Smith was twenty-six at the time when the expedition landed. Already living an adventures life fighting with the Dutch against the Spanish and in eastern Europe against the Ottoman Turks. Smith was made president of this colony in 1608. He imposed a rigid discipline that probably saved the colony from failure. For a most critical year he was a virtual dictator, thanks to the death, removal, or departure of most of the

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