Christians
The colonists had bees shipped to America in hives. The first arrived in the Jamestown colony and spread throughout the area.
Colonists who came to VA in 1619.
From the view of the native Americans, the colonists and their diseases were two bad things.
They brought clothes ,food and planted crops their. They also brought the European honey bee with them.
Sir Edwin Sandys, one of the key figures in the early development of Jamestown, hoped that the headright system and indentured servitude would encourage settlement and agricultural development in the Virginia colony. By granting land to settlers and incentivizing them to bring laborers, he aimed to boost the population and economic viability of the colony, ultimately leading to its success. This system was intended to attract more settlers, increase tobacco production, and create a sustainable economy in the New World.
Every European state thought that the America's had gold. So they sent settlers/colonist's with things to sample the earth for gold. The colonists didn't even bring enough food for the first winter!
In 1821.
Yes
Who? Christopher Columbus? He was not the first to dicover America. Much earlier examples include the Native Americans and Leif Erikson, a viking who discovered America long before Colombus. Christopher Columbus just brought Europeans to America. He 'rediscovered' America, per se. He deserves credit for bring colonists to America, not discovering it.
Yes, religion is what fueled them to want to convert others. Take Nigeria for example: British "colonists" were concerned with spreading Christianity among tribes of the Igbo. That is how colonists first impacted the populations they colonized- by establishing the more powerful religions at the time and converting those with what seemed to be uncivilized beliefs.
They brought clothing, animals and some of their personal belongings. The colonists could only bring one suitcase each.
When he came back he had ships full of colonists drawn from the slums and jails of Paris.