James town

On May 14, 1607, some 100 English colonists arrive along the east bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, the colonists had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery. Upon landing at Jamestown, the first […]

The Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America. It was founded on the banks of Virginia's James River in 1607.

Jochen Hippler identifies three aspects of nation-building. The first is the creation of an integrating ideology where the citizenry identifies and convenes around a central notion of belonging to a “nation”. The second aspect is the creation of an integrated society where communication, some sort of traffic, and movement among the citizenry and public debate […]

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The English built their first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The colony finally made headway when the settlers started to grow and export tobacco, a crop that they had learned form the Native Americans.

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