British+Settlement

 =British Settlement =

While the French and Dutch stablished an extensive fur trade and Spanish conquered as they searched for gold and silver, the English arrived with a completely different purpose: to find religious freedom and to settle their own land and make new homes for themselves and their families. In this new territory if it wasn´t for the Native Americans few would have survived in this unfamiliar land. They learned from them where to hunt and fish, how to grow new crops and how to recognize edible plants from those that were not and ones that could be used as medicine. The Europeans believed that land could be owned by individuals while Native Americans didn´t, which caused conflicts between them. By the time the American Revolutionary ended in 1783, few Native Americans lived in the Northeast, most had been killed or pushed to live off their lands to the west.

John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier and one of the founders of Jamestown, Virginia settlement. Smith was one of the 105 settlers who sailed from England on December 19, 1606 and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. The settlers established Jamestown on May 24th, 1607; it became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Smith was as colony leader led hunting and exploration expeditions, but was once taken captive by the Powhatan Indian chief and sentenced to death. Pocahontas, the Indian chief´s daughter saved his life. In August 1609 more settlers arrived to Jamestown colonies and John Smith returned to England with furs but never returned to Virginia.

THIRTEEN COLONIES MAKE UP NEW ENGLAND
Three Areas Make 13 colonies Self Supporting The different resources and weather in New England, Middle, and Southern colonies have all the things needed for America to become a self-supporting nation able to run itself. NEW ENGLAND COLONIES: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island MIDDLE COLONIES: New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey SOUTHERN COLONIES: Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia

SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
To develop this colonies slavery became a normal practice, swpecially in the Southern Colonies. The slaves were brought from Africa to the American slave market through a voyage called the MIDDLE PASSAGE. Slaves were chained and very close together and were fed only enough to keep them alive. Diseases spread and those that did not follow orders were thrown to the sea. Those who survived were sold to their new masters. By 1807 the MIDDLE PASSAGE had killed thousnds of people and stopped being used because the British Parliament passed a bil to end slave trade.