Humanities Presentation Clash of Cultures

Jamestown

Jamestown

The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution. The Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620. In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the colonists flourished with some assistance from Native Americans.

New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherlands. The initial trading factory gave rise to the settlement around Fort Amsterdam.

New Amsterdam

The Hudson River

Hudson River

The river supported a thriving fur trade in Colonial times and transported Hudson Valley wheat and lumber to New York City, where it was dispersed throughout the western hemisphere. Sloop-rigged sailing ships carried the majority of Hudson River business for more than 200 years.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts. This, like Virginia to the south, is the most important colony in England's 13-colony experiment's northern region. The Massachusetts Bay Company founded this site in the Plymouth area in 1623, and it was formerly known as the Massachusetts Bay colony. Initially, specific cultures emerge as a result of physical changes in the landscape. Those civilizations have an impact on the terrain surrounding them over time. Certain physical elements, such as land formation, temperatures, and natural vegetation, have an impact, according to experts.