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Settling North America, - Coggle Diagram

- - - - they were so willing that they colonists lived for months in shacks, built very quickly
      - they trade with the Powhatan for food instead of growing their own
        
        a nearby swamp caused disease to sprea and colonists began to die off
        
        the Virginia Company sent more and more colonists
        
        mostly men, there were not many women
      - they had no success finding it
        
        they were helped by the "brown gold"
        
        tabacco was common among Native Americans
        
        Farmers in Virginia grew it as a cash crop for sale in Europe
        
        it required a large number of workers to grow it
- - - - came from England on the Mayflower to establish the colony of Plymouth in 1620
      - they came as families
        
        this helped communities to establish themselves more quickly and towns to form
    - - some Puritans formed a joint stock company called the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1630
        
        joint stock company: partnership in which people invest in a business venture by purchasing stock, these stockholders share in the company's profits but are also responsible for the company's debts
      - they believed that God had selected some people to be saved and go to heaven and they worked hard to show they were among the chosen few
      - were merchants or had small family farms
        
        New England was not a good location for growing cash crops
        
        farmers worked the land themselves, with few servants
  - - - they settled at Gloucester
      - Plymouth
        
        it became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- - - - the fur trade started
        
        needed to trade with Native Americans to get furs
        
        in exchange Indiand got European goods, such as guns and metal cooking pots
        
        French enjoyed the best relations with native groups and often intermarried with the tribes they did business with.
        
        Holland also wanted to profit from colonies in the New World
        
        the Dutch West India Company was formed to get in on the fur trade
        
        in 1624, it sent settlers to Manhattan Island
        
        their main settlement was named New Amsterdam and it had an excellent harbor at the mouth of the Hudson River