new england colonies apush Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/new-england-colonies-apush Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 American Chesapeake Bay and the Middle Colonies http://travelsfinders.com/american-chesapeake-bay-middle-colonies.html http://travelsfinders.com/american-chesapeake-bay-middle-colonies.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 09:27:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203814 Initial voyages to the New World were generally unsuccessful. The first colonists were a mix of a few enthusiastic middle-class adventurers, looking for the vast wealth promised by the stories of Spanish expeditions, and a far larger proportion of lower-class emigrants seeking to escape the brutality of the English law code. After an initial exploratory mission a year earlier, the first colony was established at Roanoke Island, in Virginia in 1586. This famed Lost Colony had vanished by the following year due to disease, trouble with indigenous peoples, the Spanish, and other problems. The first successful Virginia colony was the

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