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New Settlers - National Humanities Center In the 1700s, far fewer English emigrated to the colonies than in the previous century (from 350,000 to 80,000—a 77% decrease) England needed to keep its native labor supply at home while increasing its colonial population across the ocean
American Life in the Seventeenth Century | Colonial America Over time, thousands of New Englanders migrated and established communities across the United States, from Ohio to Oregon and even Hawaii They replicated the orderly New England town model, characterized by a central green, schoolhouse, and simple town-meeting democracy, in their new settlements
U. S. History, Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 . . . By 1700, the American continent had become a place of stark contrasts between slavery and freedom, between the haves and the have-nots Everywhere in the American colonies, a crushing demand for labor existed to grow New World cash crops, especially sugar and tobacco
English Settlements in America – U. S. History They were essentially employees of the Virginia Company of London, an English joint-stock company, in which investors provided the capital and assumed the risk in order to reap the profit, and they had to make a profit for their shareholders as well as for themselves
Settlements in the New Land – American Centuries After large population decreases caused by wide spread diseases, such as smallpox and typhus, brought by the Europeans, the New World became a probable location for European settlement
Overview | Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763 - Library of Congress In the early 1600s, in rapid succession, the English began a colony (Jamestown) in Chesapeake Bay in 1607, the French built Quebec in 1608, and the Dutch began their interest in the region that became present-day New York
Early Settlements | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History The new settlement, made up of civilians under the command of John White, was to be established on the Chesapeake Bay to the north, where the English had discovered fertile lands and deep rivers capable of accommodating ocean-going ships
Colonial Growth Expansion - Legends of America In 1700, settlements dotted the seaboard from Penobscot Bay, in Maine, southward to the Edisto River in South Carolina They were not continuous, and only in the valley of the Hudson River had they penetrated inland more than 100 miles
The Colonies: 1690-1715 - National Humanities Center Power of the mother country over its faraway territories was a defining issue for the British Atlantic colonists in the 1700s The freedom from strict English control they had enjoyed in the 1600s and had come to assume narrowed as the colonies' economic value became more apparent to the Crown