When did English settlers come to the New World?

Answer 1

1606 was the year that King James granted a company of merchants to found their own new colony in Jamestown, Virginia. Well, in other words, that was when we first came to beautiful America! The lure of new lands attracted thousands of Europeans to North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Many found the new lives they were seeking, but most had to earn their new freedom with sacrifice and hardships. This is what many of our ancestors went through during the sixteen and seventeen hundreds. The English Pilgrims left Plymouth, England in September of 1620. They were seeking to start a settlement in the New World. This was because back in England, they thought that Great Britain and the church had become extremely corrupt. The European pilgrims also came to North America because they had been seeking religious freedom. When these men set off to there journey, they had absolutely no rules or guidelines for the running of their new colony what so ever. This is why they decided to create the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was basically a contract of basic rules and agreements between the pilgrims in the New World. If it was not for this contract, there would be a large part missing from the U.S. Constitution which we still agree upon and follow by today as us Americans. This contract is also an example of a Social Contract. A man named John Smith took control of the colony in 1608. He then built a fort and forced the colonists to build better housing and work even harder than then had before. Not only did the settlers help with this work, but they also received help from a powerful Powhatan Confederacy of Indians. They had made an agreement with John Smith, and the other colonists. This Indian Confederacy even brought them food and taught them how to work the field. By the year of 1609, the colony had been filled with about 400 more settlers. But, unfortunately for the settlers, the "starving time" hit when disease and famine reached the colony. This unlucky event had sadly caused there new improving population to drop back down to only about 60. Jamestown had been in a large "slump" after the lose of many colonists. That was until a man named John Rolfe introduced a new type of tobacco which happened to sell very greatly back in England.

Answer 2

England dis discover America in 1607. It is then that they moved ahead and secured it as one of its colony.

Answer 3

how can they be 'English American' immigrants if they havent come to America already....

Answer 4

1550 they were on the MAyflower which is a boat

Answer 5

In the 1800's.