History - The Virginia Company

History

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#1
The Virginia Company was a joint-stock company, which bought charters from King James I to organize a settlement in the North American region called Virginia. After they finally managed this settlement in Virginia, some settlers wanted to have a say in government affairs. So the company allowed 10 cities to sent each 2 burgesses to their assemblies.

#2
The Virginia Company went to North America because they hoped to find some gold and silver there. They relied on the fact that earlier persons deemed it for a good place for establishing a colony.

#3
The winter of 1609-1610 was a hard time for the Jamestown settlers. To get out of this misery, John Rolfe, one of the colonists, grew some special sort of tobacco. For this, he used seeds from the West Indies. It didn’t take long till other settlers began to raise tobacco. Due to this progress Jamestown started to expand and to grow.

#4
Maybe King James I. didn’t abandon his hope to find some gold or silver there because he remembered Sir Walther Raleigh, who was convinced that he had found the perfect place for a settlement in North Carolina.

#5
Jamestown Growth:
-The colonists were able to rent some land to plant their own food crops
-The company members sent 90 women to Jamestown because they were of the opinion that “the plantation can never flourish till families be planted.” If a colonist wanted to marry one of these women, he had to pay 120 pounds of tobacco to the company

#6
30 percent of the settlers were children.

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#1
In 1534, England became a Protestant country because King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. But not all inhabitants of England were happy with this movement. Some people were persecuted from the followers of the Anglican Church. Some of them (the Puritans) wanted to reform the Anglican Church. Others (the Separatists) rather formed their own religion. Most of the Separatists were persecuted in England, so they went to the Netherlands. There they agreed to a contract with the Virginia Company. They were shipped to Virginia and would be able to practice their religion freely. Due to the fact that the Separatists had a religious background of settlement, they called themselves Pilgrims.
The ship that they went with to Virginia stopped in Plymouth, but this wasn’t the Virginia Company’s territory.  So the Pilgrims had to sign the Mayflower Compact which declared that they were loyal to England and would obey all their laws.
After England had gotten a new king (Charles I.) many Puritans fled to the other Puritans in North America because of great persecutions. In 1630 already 15,000 Puritans migrated to the US because there they could practice their religious beliefs freely. On the other side they were very strict against other religions. They did non tolerate any other churches in their territory.

#2
The Separatists left England because in their home country they were persecuted by the government. Due to the fact that they did not agree with the English religion (Anglican Church), the Separatists tried to form their own church. But the king didn’t like this trend.

#3
Rhode Island was such an attractive destination because there, nobody was abridged in his or her religious freedom. Everybody was allowed to practice the preferred religion.

#4
The Mayflower impact indicates that the Pilgrims remained in their loyalty to England and that their intention was to form “a civil body politic” for their better ordering and preservation. Also, they had to sign that they would obey all the laws, which were “for the general good of the colony.”
The thing it had in common with the Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut was that both describe the political order of a country.

#5
The colonists interact with the Native Americans
-Americans helped the colonists with adapting to the land; they traded with each other
-Settlers used the Native’s land without permission or payment
-War broke out between the English settlers and the Pequet people/the Wampanoag tribe

#6
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