British+Settlement

media type="youtube" key="ZINHFyVDp3s" width="425" height="350"English Colonists. While the French and Dutch established an extensive fur trade and the Spanish conquered as they searched for gold and silver, the English arrived with a comletely different purpose: to find religious freedom and to settle, own land, and make new homes for themselves and their families. Without the Native Americans, few would have survived in the unfamiliar land. They learned where to hunt and fish how to grow new crops, and how to recognized plants that were edible, those that were not, and ones that could be used as medicine.The European belief that land could be owned by individuals was at odds with Native American beliefs and fricion increased.by the time the American Revolutionary war ended in 1783, few Native Americans lived in Northeast.

Slavery in the Colonies In 1619 twenty Africans landed in Jamestown, Virgina. They, along with some Europeans, came as indentured servants. During the 1700s slavery flourished in England

Settlement: Definition: To establish a place of Residence to furmish with inavitants.