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Jamestown
Jamestown
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Jamestown was very important because it was the first permanent English settlement in North America. It is America's birthplace.
jamestown
Jamestown
Permanent colonization of the New World began in 1607 with the English settlement of Jamestown, in what we now call Virginia. From the beginning, Jamestown, which was named after King James I, had its troubles.
Jamestown
The leaders of Jamestown, VA's settlement were Captain John Smith and Christopher Newport. Jamestown was the first successful English settlement in the New World.
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Jamestown, Virginia
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Plymouth was the first settlement in Massachusetts.
Jamestown was more than just a settlement for English people wanting a new start in the New World. The purpose of creating Jamestown was to aid England by creating plantations to grow tobacco & cotton. Cotton was needed by England to feed their textile industry & tobacco was now a great new discovery that Europeans wanted to have in a big way. The settlement was there to stake out and expand its territory in Virginia.
The year 1607 was when the Jamestown settlement began in what became Virginia. It was the first successful permanent settlement in the English New World.