SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish, under the leadership of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, drove the ENGLISH from Florida by 1565. The most important export from the Virginia Colony was COTTON.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first center of colonial agriculture was on the Peninsula and south of the James River, where various plantations such as Bermuda Hundred were settled. In the 1600’s and 1700’s, Virginia farmers earned the most revenue by exporting tobacco to England (plus France and the Netherlands, when permitted).
Detailed explanation-3: -Significance. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown. It provided a source of fertile land and great wealth to England in the form of the cash crop, tobacco. With the House of Burgesses, America saw the first institutional instance of representative self-government.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1606, a group of wealthy London businessmen petitioned King James I for a charter to establish a colony in the New World. They formed the Virginia Company and set out to establish a permanent English settlement in the Americas.