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The Virgina Company was a profit business. The profit let them change the company plan. this company had GOLD.
Frances Nicolas
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The first colony in north America was?
Virginia
What was the first British colony in the north America?
Jamestown, Virginia.
What was the first permanent colony in north America?
Jamestown (Virginia)
1st permanent colony in north America?
Jamestown, which is now Virginia
What colony was the birthplace of Virginia dare the first English baby born in America?
north america
Who was the first successfully established English colony in North America?
The first established English colony in North America was Jamestown, Virginia. There were 13 original colonies in the United States.
The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in which colony in the early 1600s?
Virginia
Where did colonists build the first permanent English colony in North America?
The English made a colony called Roanoke twice but both times it failed. I think the next establishment built was Jamestown (in Massatchusetts). That one "survived"
How did the Jamestown colony begin?
The Virginia Company of London got a charter to settle land in North America to get a profit. They sent a hundred men to build a town and never saw the place themselves.
What was the first English colony north America?
Roanoke Island, in what was then considered Virginia but is now North Carolina, was the first English settlement. Unfortunately, none of the colonists survived. Jamestown VA was the first permanent colony. The first English colony in North America was established on Roanoke Island in 1585, in what is now North Carolina. A second colony, the so-called Lost Colony, was established two years later, but vanished. A third colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
Why did the Virgina company want to build a colony in North America?
It can be argued that economics was the essential driving force and while the search for profit cannot be denied, there was also the threat of Spanish Florida which England had to contend with.
Why did the Calvert family of England want to build a colony in north America?
to provide a refugefor catholics
