USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -QUESTION: Wasn’t Plymouth, Massachusetts the first permanent English settlement? ANSWER: No. Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607 whereas Plymouth was founded in 1620. Jamestown was the capital until 1699, when it moved to what is now Williamsburg.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town. While houses were being built, the group continued to live on the ship.

Detailed explanation-4: -ANSWER: FALSE. The Spanish founded the first permanent European colony in North America at St. Augustine, in what is now the state of Florida. The first colony in what is now Virginia was Jamestown, and it was founded by the English in 1607.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although their reasons for settling were different, the settlements had many similar experiences. Jamestown and Plymouth both faced harsh and demanding climates and struggled with hunger, disease, and death. In their first years they had much difficulty establishing housing and finding a sustainable source of food.