why was Jamestown founded?
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Im pretty sure that Jamestown was founded to start the beginning of the new colonies that England planned to establish in America.  The men were sent over to set up the colony as it was only forest when they landed so that it would be suitable for women and children to come over later after they had made sure the area was safe and that there was proper shelter for them.
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James Oglethorpe founded Georgia for debtors and prisoners.\n\nAlso -- its know, not "noe"\n\n:)
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i think it was Jamestown
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it helped them by providing a product they could export/sell back in europe.  this in turn provided money and an economy that allowed the colony to survive.
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The reason is simple. \nDevelopment is a continuous process. To move Forward and make it happen we need to go to uncharted territories. That's when we need "History". So that we keep continue to make "NEW" mistakes but never repeat the one that we have already made in the past.
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because the USA was founded by people with strong crition beleifs. we are just geady now but now as much then.
87101
BECAUSE the dominant history of this country (I'm assuming you mean the U.S. when you say "America") is told from the perspective of white colonialists!  Institutionalized schooling in this country was established to enforce Protestant, Anglo-European values and I believe that, in some ways, that is still its purpose (look at No Child Left Behind!)
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It was settled because it was both on the river Kennet and at the crossroads of major North-South and East-West trade routes.\n\nEDIT\n\nWELL DONE TO THE POSTER ABOVE - FOR TRYING TO PASS OFF A CUT n PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA AS THEIR OWN WORK\n\nEDIT 2\n\nEVEN WORSE SUZIE - ACTUALLY CLAIMING CUT n PASTE AS YOUR OWN THEORIES
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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Colonial Massachusetts - Massachusetts was the most important northern colony, as well as an important part of New England, where many American institutions and traditions were formed. Unlike southern colonies, it was built around small towns, rather than scattered farms. The Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem and later to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As the Puritans gradually secularized and became known as Yankees, the Congregational Church continued to dominate most small towns. Late in the colonial period Baptist and other dissenting churches emerged, and the elites in Boston and other cities turned to the Anglican and Unitarian religions. The colony defeated some Indian tribes in King Philip's War in the 1670s, and fought with Britain a series of French and Indian Wars that were characterized by brutal border raids, and successful attacks on Canada. \nPre-revolutionary events - Massachusetts was a center of the American Revolution, with actions by the patriots and counter-actions by the Crown (including the Intolerable Acts) a main reason for unity of the 13 colonies and the outbreak of war, starting with battles around Boston in 1775-76. Also see Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party. \nBattles of the American Revolution - Battles of Lexington and Concord, Siege of Boston, Battle of Bunker Hill. \nFirst Governor of the Commonwealth - John Hancock was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \nShays' Rebellion - Western Massachusetts uprising after the Revolution. \nU.S. Constitution - On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. \nSlavery - According to a 1790 census, Massachusetts had a slave population of zero. \nDistrict of Maine - On March 15, 1820, Maine was separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a non-contiguous part, and entered the Union as the 23rd State. (See Missouri Compromise) \nU.S. Civil War - The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of the first African-American regiments in the U.S. military. \nThe Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) - Known as the Big Dig to locals, it is the most expensive single highway construction project in the United States. The project began 1991, with final construction occurring in 2006. \nRoman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - In 2002, the diocese was found to have knowingly moved priests who sexually molested children from parish to parish and to have covered up abuse. \nSame-sex marriage - On November 18, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that the state could not deny marriage rights to same-sex couples under the state constitution. Same-sex marriage is currently legal in Massachusetts. \nInvention of sports: \nCandlepin bowling was invented in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1880. \nBasketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. \nVolleyball was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
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The U.S. was founded and developed by people from England and the rest of Europe.  So when they came to name a town, they often used names from "the old country," in part because they were homesick, and in part because they simply liked that town in the old country.  That's why so many names in America start with New:  New York, New England, New Jersey, etc.  You can pretty much tell where the immigrants came from by the nature of the town names.  For example, guess where the immigrants in the Santa Cruz Mountains came from, with names like Bonny Doon, Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond, Highlands Park . . .
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IT WAS FOUNDED IN AFRICa> LIKE THATS WHERE IT WAS FIRST. IF THAT HELPS? VOTE ME AS BEST ANSWEr.
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D--women didn't arrive in Jamestown until 1619
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Europeans founded America in 1492, but they were really late in the game. Vikings came earlier, and surely the Eastern Asians before that, but we have no documentation of a date.
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American was founded on guns and religion.  Many of the early settlers came here to escape religious persecution.  They separated from England with guns, and "tamed the West" with guns (i.e. kicked out the people already living here.)  The idea of a great untamed wilderness, and the so-called "Western Expansion" still resonates in the American psyche.  Because of the importance of guns and religion, protections for these areas were written into America's founding documents.
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jamestown, williamsburg, monticello etc.
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Early history of Charleston\nAfter Charles II of England was restored to the English throne, he granted the chartered Carolina territory to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietor, in 1663. It took seven years before the Lords could arrange for settlement, the first being that of Charles Town. The community was established by English settlers in 1670 across the Ashley River from the city's current location. It was soon chosen by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, one of the Lords Proprietor, to become a "great port towne," a destiny which the city fulfilled. By 1680, the settlement had grown, joined by others from England, Barbados, and Virginia, and relocated to its current peninsular location. The capital of the Carolina colony, Charleston was the center for further expansion and the southernmost point of English settlement during the late 1600s.\n\nThe settlement was often subject to attack from sea and from land. Periodic assaults from Spain and France, who still contested England's claims to the region, were combined with resistance from Native Americans as well as pirate raids. Charleston's colonists erected a fortification wall around the small settlement to aid in its defense. The only building to remain from the Walled City is the Powder Magazine, where the city's supply of gun powder was stored.\n\nA 1680 plan for the new settlement, the Grand Modell, laid out "the model of an exact regular town," and the future for the growing community. Land surrounding the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets was set aside for a Civic Square. Over time it became known as the Four Corners of the Law, referring to the various arms of governmental and religious law presiding over the square and the growing city. St. Michael's Episcopal, Charleston's oldest and most noted church, was built on the southeast corner in 1752. The following year the Capitol of the colony was erected across the square. Because of its prominent position within the city and its elegant architecture, the building signaled to Charleston's citizens and visitors its importance within the British colonies. Provincial court met on the ground floor, the Commons House of Assembly and the Royal Governor's Council Chamber met on the second floor.\n\nWhile the earliest settlers primarily came from England, colonial Charleston was also home to a mixture of ethnic and religious groups. In colonial times, Boston, Massachusetts and Charleston were sister cities, and people of means spent summers in Boston and winters in Charleston. There was a great deal of trade with Bermuda and the Caribbean, and some people came to live in Charleston from these areas. French, Scottish, Irish and Germans migrated to the developing seacoast town, representing numerous Protestant denominations, as well as Catholicism and Judaism. Sephardic Jews migrated to the city in such numbers that Charleston became one of the largest Jewish communities in North America. The Jewish Coming Street Cemetery, first established in 1762, attests to their long-standing presence in the community. The first Anglican church, St. Philip's Episcopal, was built in 1682, although later destroyed by fire and relocated to its current location. Slaves also comprised a major portion of the population, and were active in the city's religious community. Free black Charlestonians and slaves helped establish the Old Bethel United Methodist Church in 1797, and the congregation of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church stems from a religious group organized solely by African Americans, free and slave, in 1791. The first American museum opened to the public on January 12, 1773 in Charleston.\n\nBy the mid-18th century Charleston had become a bustling trade center, and the wealthiest and largest city south of Philadelphia. By 1770 it was the fourth largest port in the colonies, after only Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with a population of 11,000, slightly more than