1. What events in Great Britain contributed to the settlement of English colonies in America?
There were lots of reasons, which led Great Britain to colonize in America. Main reasons were: poverty and the conflicts between King and the Church. King Henry the eight wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon, but the Protestant church refused to give its permission for him to do so. This was one of the beginnings that led England into poverty. Between 1500 and 1650 Landlords decided to dislocate farmers to earn more profits. That caused lots of farmers to be left without a job and being forced into living very poor lives. Some farmers turned to Landlords for help but even if they got some financial help they had to give something in return and if they didn’t, they were forced to become a puppet of a Landlord. People saw all of these things happen and they also saw a solution. The solution was The New World. One of the people who was looking for the solution to all of this inferno was Richard Hakluyt. He was urging Queen Elizabeth to establish colonies in the new world!
. This would help out a lot in the current condition. First of all people would get more opportunities and might get back on their feet.
Eventually the decision was made to perform the journey to the New World. The place where they decided to establish their first colony was the modern day state of Virginia. When they came there they had to make a contact with the local tribe of Algonquian. At the time when English arrived there, there was approximately 20,000 Algonquian people living there. At first English and Indians made a very good connection. Englishman practically lived on the supplies from Indians. When the time was harsh Algonquians brought English corn and other vegetable products. In the passage from Captain John Smith (a person in charge of this voyage), we get the sense that Indians were pure savages and intentionally were exterminating colonists. But from the “Out of many” I can see that it was England’s fault. Captain Smith and his crew stall food from the tribe. In return, Algonquians stopped bringing provisions to the guests. That brought a great famine to the colonists and they even turned to cannibalism. In the passage, Smith reports that while his own people were dying very rapidly, savages took that advantage to settle the score. He said that one of the colonists was so desperate that he actually killed his own wife and then ate her, for which he was later persecuted. In order to stop Indians, another group of people was sent into Virginia. The plan worked a
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