Colonization Of America Essay

America, like all countries, was not always an overpopulated crazy awesome landscape that had fried chicken and cheeseburgers. America was once, believe it or not, uninhabited; but with some help from mother nature, people were brought to North America where they began to slowly populate. Later, the environment and location of America is than what pushed to the colonization and building of the New World.
Long ago, before any Europeans had set foot on America, it was inhabited by millions of Indian peoples. These Indian peoples were thought to have arrived in North America due to a stretch of land created by the glaciers connecting Asia and North America. These first immigrants were nomads that lived simply by hunting and gathering. After hundreds of years, these people began to populate America developing many cultures and languages. As time went on the Indian people began to populate and expand; populations grew, and

Soon after, hunger and disease corrupted the town which Columbus ordered another town to be built in the same area. Prior to Columbus’ attempts to colonize America, the first permanent english settlement began with 105 men sailing from England in 1607 were sponsored by the Virginia Company of London in hopes of making a profit of the adventures landed in present day Virginia, creating what is known as Jamestown. This colony had high hopes of finding gold in the Chesapeake valley, but to their dismay, there was none. After a year, the survival rate was around sixty percent, so in order to coax europeans into moving to the new world, the headright system was made. The headright system offered fifty acres of land for each person that a settler would bring over. (Green episode 2) This system was a big factor in colonizing America because it not just increased the population growth, but the tobacco production