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This 5 page paper discusses some of the issues surrounding the early settlements in North America. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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found a thriving native culture without which they could not have survived. This paper identifies the qualities of the groups that came to the original 13 colonies and the legacies
they left behind; it considers mercantilism and "salutary neglect" and how they contributed to a sense of separateness from England; and finally, it discusses the specific events that led to
the rebellion against Great Britain. Qualities and Legacies The beginning of European settlement in the New World occurs with the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (Faragher et al, 2000).
However, actual successful settlements werent established until the arrival of the English in the Chesapeake Bay region, where they established Jamestown in 1607; it was the "first permanent English settlement
in North America" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 54). There were other Europeans in North America-the Spanish and French undertook their own explorations-but for our purposes the other main group
we want to consider are the people who went to New England. The Jamestown settlement and the Massachusetts Bay Colony are probably the ones we think of most often when
we consider Colonial America. Jamestown was founded not as part of an exploratory mission, but to make money for England. Indeed, with few exceptions this is the reason for founding
any colony: its supposed to become self-sufficient and send profits back to the mother country. In Jamestown, the English "were unable to support themselves" and had to depend on the
local tribes, much as the Roanoke colonists had done before them (Faragher et al, 2000). (The Roanoke colony disappeared off the face of the earth, an enduring historical mystery.) Jamestown
residents grew so dependent on the Algonquin that they began raiding the Indians stores and the chief, Powhatan, determined to starve them out (Faragher et al, 2000). During the winter
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