Settlements of the British

Many factors led to the diversity found in the British settlements in America. More than simply for religious freedom, economics played a large role in the settlement of various geographic regions in North America. Like the Spanish and the French however, the first successful English settlement Jamestown, was dependent on the trade of tobacco back to England for its success. The differences in the settlers’ reason for moving to the colonies can be explained by …

…of people spilling into the areas. Factors that contributed greatly to this were slavery and the slave trade, and the belief that there is only one true religion. These people in the two regions differed greatly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and still differ today. Each group of people had their own ideas, beliefs and motives for coming to the Americas and the direction they sent the colonies in has endured over two centuries.