How did the English Colonize America?

How did the English Colonize America?

The foundation of one of the most powerful countries in the world today. The history of the colonization of North America is one of the most well-known formations of any country across the globe. Spain, France, and Great Britain all played crucial roles in the development of what is now the influential United States of America. Motivated by economic reasons, and trying to expand their trade network and financial power, many European Nations ventured in search of more opportunities. But, today, most people particularly remember the colonial efforts of the English above all else. So, how did the English colonize America?

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Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning

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Skylar Gordon

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[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Question 1: Can you get to India through North America? No, but at least there's beaver

[Eva_xoxo]

It's fascinating to me that the England vs Spain rivalry lead to this. they took their battle to another continent entirely. England took the north and spain took the south. And you can see from linguistic influence in the continent. the north is English speaking, and the south american countries are Spanish mostly and some Portugese.

[JoebsonOSRS]

Great video. You made this very easy to follow and retain the information your giving us. Thank you

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

"Spain, France, and Great Britain"
The Netherlands: What am I, chopped Stroopwafel? *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

[matthew_turkmen]

And, how did English colonize America? We saw Jamestown surviving and then suddenly, pop, thirteen colonies. Great effort, really, I learned more about this topic from some games, you missed entire colonization process.

[christopherhoenig]

this video covered one week's worth of my college class in 12 minutes, and since I'm a visual learner, this helped me out way more than any amount of tutoring.

[btmorley]

3:59 “The Spanish fleet had to turn back, heading for the Netherlands”
…
Sails in the opposite direction of the Netherlands

From what I understand the English actually trapped the Armada in the North Sea, forcing them to sail around Scotland through it’s treacherous conditions, shipwrecking most of their ships.

[stevenmoomey]

They recreated Jamestown, it’s a few miles from the original settlement. It’s well worth seeing, plan a full day for the visit. My Ancestor John Merritt emigrated to Jamestown in 1621, traveling on the “Falcon, ” an Indentured ship. Also on that ship, was anyone Ancestor, Marmaduke Orde. The resulting families stayed together, and relocated together. They ultimately inter-married.

[rhommy]

When the Armada retreats " to the Netherlands" it heads the wrong way in the illustration..just saying

[falconbuzzard]

Thank you for a very nice presentation. Now one can connect the dots much easily and and understand the history of US with clarity.

[johnweek.]

“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
-Themistocles

[alexl]

The story of the lost colony of Roanoke is very interesting not gonna lie.

[KonyCurrentYear]

3:29 *English Navy. English. Not British. Britain as a political entity wouldn't exist for more than a century.

[shelleym]

Let's not forget the 13th and 14th British colonies, both in Florida and originally colonized by Spain. St. Augustine, the oldest colonial city of any European country (1565) was the capital of British East Florida. Pensacola was the capital of British West Florida, whose territory went all the way to the Mississippi River and bordered Spanish Louisiana. The longest siege of the American Revolutionary War was at Pensacola, when in 1781 the Spanish, under General Bernardo de Galvez, rid the British from the Gulf Coast, immensely aiding the American Revolutionary War effort.

[fafsa]

How do you do your cartography for these videos? Is it ArcMap and ESRI products? ...looks great btw.

[USNVA]

I live but a few miles away from Jamestown. It’s always been fairly rural up until the last decade or two, which is pretty amazing considering it’s the building block of the United States. It’s really sad to watch that area become an urbanized part of society. It’s now totally surrounded by housing developments.

[CanadianAnglican]

I love your videos. The subject of history has always been my favourite

[lindaeasley]

Martin's 100 as I understand it was an English trading post just outside of Jamestown in the early 1600s .
In 1622 a massacre took place by a local native tribe.
I have ancestors on both sides of my family who were Virginia colonists . Some from France by way of England, some from Ireland, others English

[DeadWookiee]

by 1617 only 351 of the original 17000 colonists remained alive... I think a zero might have been added on there hahaha.

[maninredhelm]

_"If it had not been for the newfound tobacco industry in the original colony, it's likely that the English would have never been able to colonize North America permanently."_
I think that's way too big a leap. The French started their permanent Quebec colony only a year after Virginia with no tobacco in sight, depending on the fur trade instead. And that's how the northern English colonies got their start. Very little tobacco was ever grown north of Maryland, and was never needed. The Plymouth colony banned it. Side note: Virginia's tobacco plantations didn't cultivate the tobacco of the local natives. What they grew was tobacco from the Spanish Caribbean, which was stronger and tasted better. Virginia's advantage was there was far more land to reolocate to after tobacco farming ruined the local soil, whereas the islands still needed to be able to raise crops to feed themselves.