Jamestown colony
First permanent English
Jamestown colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607 in present-day Virginia.
The term appears in historical contexts discussing early American colonization, English-Native American relations, and the origins of slavery in what became the United States: The Jamestown colony nearly failed in its first winters.
- English settlementCommunity established by Britons
- John SmithDefault fake name
- tobacco cultivationGrowing plants for cigarettes
- tobacco tradeCommerce in smoking leaves
- triangular tradeThree-legged Atlantic exchange system
Pocahontas · Chesapeake Bay · indentured servitude · joint stock · New World · sea voyage · Native American · brackish water · swampy terrain · cultural diplomacy · trade alliances · plantation system · marshland · coastal plain · disease outbreak · hunger · cash crops · fort
- colonial historypilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth, Mayflower, coastal settlements
Jamestown colonyPlymouth Colony
Early Massachusetts Pilgrim settlement
Massachusetts Bay Colony · Pilgrims · Puritans · Mayflower Compact · religious utopia
Jamestown colonySt. Augustine
Historic Florida coastal city
New France · Quebec · Spanish missions · Santa Fe · New Netherland
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