How did the English Colonize America? 

With boats.

Question 1: Can you get to India through North America? No, but at least there's beaver

this video covered one week's worth of my college class in 12 minutes, and since I'm a visual learner, this helped me out way more than any amount of tutoring.

It's fascinating to me that the England vs Spain rivalry lead to this. they took their battle to another continent entirely. England took the north and spain took the south. And you can see from linguistic influence in the continent. the north is English speaking, and the south american countries are Spanish mostly and some Portugese.

And, how did English colonize America? We saw Jamestown surviving and then suddenly, pop, thirteen colonies. Great effort, really, I learned more about this topic from some games, you missed entire colonization process.

They recreated Jamestown, it’s a few miles from the original settlement. It’s well worth seeing, plan a full day for the visit. My Ancestor John Merritt emigrated to Jamestown in 1621, traveling on the “Falcon,” an Indentured ship. Also on that ship, was anyone Ancestor, Marmaduke Orde. The resulting families stayed together, and relocated together. They ultimately inter-married.

Great video. You made this very easy to follow and retain the information your giving us. Thank you

“He who commands the sea has command of everything.” -Themistocles

"Spain, France, and Great Britain" The Netherlands: What am I, chopped Stroopwafel? *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

I live but a few miles away from Jamestown. It’s always been fairly rural up until the last decade or two, which is pretty amazing considering it’s the building block of the United States. It’s really sad to watch that area become an urbanized part of society. It’s now totally surrounded by housing developments.

Thank you for a very nice presentation. Now one can connect the dots much easily and and understand the history of US with clarity.

Martin's 100 as I understand it was an English trading post just outside of Jamestown in the early 1600s . In 1622 a massacre took place by a local native tribe. I have ancestors on both sides of my family who were Virginia colonists . Some from France by way of England ,some from Ireland , others English

The story of the lost colony of Roanoke is very interesting not gonna lie.

Spain, France, and Great Britain? I think you forgot a very important part, namely the Netherlands. There are still many Dutch influences to discover. Especially in New York (New Amsterdam).

3:59 “The Spanish fleet had to turn back, heading for the Netherlands” … Sails in the opposite direction of the Netherlands From what I understand the English actually trapped the Armada in the North Sea, forcing them to sail around Scotland through it’s treacherous conditions, shipwrecking most of their ships.

Hello, from Massachusetts, good video for the detail, that they did cover.

When the Armada retreats " to the Netherlands" it heads the wrong way in the illustration..just saying

With people duh

I love your videos. The subject of history has always been my favourite

The part about Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland was particularly interesting.

I live next to the old Popham Colony. Appreciate you including it.

_"If it had not been for the newfound tobacco industry in the original colony, it's likely that the English would have never been able to colonize North America permanently."_ I think that's way too big a leap. The French started their permanent Quebec colony only a year after Virginia with no tobacco in sight, depending on the fur trade instead. And that's how the northern English colonies got their start. Very little tobacco was ever grown north of Maryland, and was never needed. The Plymouth colony banned it. Side note: Virginia's tobacco plantations didn't cultivate the tobacco of the local natives. What they grew was tobacco from the Spanish Caribbean, which was stronger and tasted better. Virginia's advantage was there was far more land to reolocate to after tobacco farming ruined the local soil, whereas the islands still needed to be able to raise crops to feed themselves.

this is what i expected from a 12 minute video and i enjoyed it. watch a longer documentary if you want more details, for people with certain critiques.

I learned so much. Thank you for sharing

Tobacco farming may have helped in the English economic exploitation of North America, but colonization started as a means to expel numerous undesirable elements of English society... America was England's dumping ground 150 years to the founding of Australia's Botany Bay...

i find the parallels between england and france so fascinating, even that they began colonising at the same time, in the same region

Nice work UA community! You all def inspire me! I thank God for all of you! 🙌🏽

How do you do your cartography for these videos? Is it ArcMap and ESRI products? ...looks great btw.

You give answers to questions I didn't knew I had.

@4:03, pretty sure Netherlands is the other way..........

"Behove" 0:40 lovely use of the Queens sir. I doth my cap.

Let's not forget the 13th and 14th British colonies, both in Florida and originally colonized by Spain. St. Augustine, the oldest colonial city of any European country (1565) was the capital of British East Florida. Pensacola was the capital of British West Florida, whose territory went all the way to the Mississippi River and bordered Spanish Louisiana. The longest siege of the American Revolutionary War was at Pensacola, when in 1781 the Spanish, under General Bernardo de Galvez, rid the British from the Gulf Coast, immensely aiding the American Revolutionary War effort.

Half the Plymouth Colony died the first year, but the rest survived and struggled on. When the Puritans arrived who were much better equipped then the Pilgrims, talented in building log homes, blacksmithing and farming in general. They were also more educated and brought a strong Protestant work ethic and their towns increased as they adjusted to the New Land.

The Netherlands is not in the direction you had the Armada ships heading.

Proud of British, their strategies, their control their management their culture their school of thoughts 👏👏👏

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

In the 1600ds the English didn‘t call it the colonies but the plantations. As your video lines out plantation America was in fact an economic project and its conflicts were a direct result of competition for ressources between plantation owners, other plantation owners and the natives.

Philip II - King of Spain and Portugal (With all its possessions in Africa and Asia), King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, Lord of the Netherlands, King of the Americas and the Philippines.. sent the Spanish Armada to the Port of Dunkirk to embark some companies of Spanish Tercios and have them crossed over the English channel. When these ships passed by the English coast, they came across English ships which refused to engage in battle. Although Spanish ships presented battle, English withdrew time and time again. Spanish ships then successfully arrived in Dunkirk where they also fought off Dutch rebels. When General Don Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma, failed to show up with his Tercios as convened, the Spanish naval fleet had to circumnavigate the British Isles, as they had little gun powder left. Had they known they'd be facing a storm, they would've preferred to fight the English. Although there were various skirmishes in the channel, the primary objective of the Spanish Armada was to arrive at the Port of Dunkirk, which surely was a huge relief for English ships ‘guarding’ the channel. If the primary objective had been a direct invasion, the English navy would've not been able to stop it. "By 12 August, the English expedition was exhausted and, unable to continue, it headed for the coast. To justify his withdrawal, Commander Chief -Lord Admiral Howard obliged his captains to sign a memorandum in which they gave their agreement to call off the pursuit" (Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake, p. 411). Yes, this is an excerpt which confirms the English could no longer maintain their position at sea, thus the English ships did not pursue the Spanish, which in turn shows the English navy did not defeat the Spanish Armada. Spanish Armada was swept away by a storm in 1588. A year after, an even larger massive armada led by Sir Pirate Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys was sent by Elizabeth I to take advantage of the Spanish vulnerability... "The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History" (Luis Gorrochategui, 2018).

History is full of small events but have big impact... who knows such a generous help from the natives could turn the world to where we are right now...

Thanks for this video

Who would ever thought the 13 colonies will become one of the most powerful counties in today’s modern world

In reflecting on this, the first attempted English colonizations fell short in part for the type of men they sent. The first to arrive were adventurers, military men and commercial sailors. These guys didn't have the required survivals skills of being farmers or fishermen. Even with Jamestown, the skill set of those who arrived was poor at best. When your choice of colonists is derived from those that were failing in your home country, lack of opportunity in their native land may not have been the only failing they suffered from.

Is there anyway you can share how to obtain the information about the first ships. I descend from one.1604 is when the records show we first got here. Shirley whatley was his name.

“By 1617, only 351 of the initial 17,000 colonists remained alive” 6:42 17 thousand? That number seems very high to me.

3:29 *English Navy. English. Not British. Britain as a political entity wouldn't exist for more than a century.

Normally great videos but a HUGE jump from fledging Jamestown to suddenly having 13 Colonies. As an Australian I think we know much more about our Colonial history. Most American history seems to go - Mayflower then War of Independence.

With lots of ships and starting settlement after settlement

Great Summary.

by 1617 only 351 of the original 17000 colonists remained alive... I think a zero might have been added on there hahaha.

Not sure if there are good thorough videos on the start of colonization in south Asia & the Americas but I would love to see you make those as well... So much of those territories troubles stem from those initial contacts. Something we should be teaching!

which software or plugin do you use for this map video. ? i know about geoLayer ,

They missed out the Dutch and also the fact that timber was the original economic export. England had been denuded of trees by the end of the C16 and they needed firewood. Also amazing how many Americans do not know that tobacco was the foundation of America, and its only wealth generator, for about 100 years

Loved it!! Cheers from Chile!!

Nice video! Awesome information! Just a question, though. Is it proper to use the term "British" for the English Navy at the time in question of the Armada attack, since this was technically before James joined the Crowns of Scotland and England to create the Kingdom of Great Britain?

3 good films of the early era... 1. the ghosts of roanoke - a paranormal story - 1587. 2. the new world - pocohantus, capt white, stars- christian bale. 3. the witch - a real creepy movie - 1620s set.

great video !!!

I mean wasn't the american revolution just the second english civil war if the majority of colonists were from the UK?

I have visited Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown but for some reason did not remember how tobacco was the big export that initially made the colonies flourish and expand. My Dad did a genealogy back to a John Loveless who came from England in the 1700s who had settled in the southwestern part of Virginia (near Kentucky territory). My Dad's family lived in the same part of northeastern Ohio for generations that made the making of his family tree even possible, but it was his finding of a manuscript written by John Loveless and his son Samuel years later applying for war benefits for family members of the Revolution and the War of 1812 that makes his story sound like something out of the days of Daniel Boone if you take it as truth. From St. Louis

Why is this guy enunciating so ridiculously succinctly?!

Good God! Your depiction of European geography (re: Spanish Armada) is woeful. See me after class

This isn't a video on how the English colonised America, this is a video about the early attempts at colonising by the English on the eastern coast of North America. It immediately skips from the founding of Jamestown to the Thirteen Colonies, with no mention of Canada or the Caribbean. "America" is the name of the entire landmass, and they couldn't have colonised the United States as that didn't exist at the time. Interesting for what it covers, but it misses out a lot.

6:24 Yeah that’s not something we Popham’s talk about.

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Excellent lesson some of my family was in the first colonies..

Hell, I need a smoke after this video.

Me playing EU4: I know exactly how...

This channel is GOLD

Great video

Favorable, amazing, and great comment for the algorithm.

The English had a second colonization effort, through Hudson's Bay, not even mentioned in this video. The Hudson's Bay Company at one time governed huge tracts of North America, including what is now Washington State, Oregon, and Northern California. The description of the British fight with the Armada is also not very accurate. In general, I believe viewers would be wise to check any assertion here before accepting it as factual.

"How did the British colonize America" should be the title, also the highlighted countries aren't even England its Ireland, Wales and England on the map shown

Naval power was the key. The Vikings seem to have passed it down as an art.

so weird and interesting how the world has developed

Awesome video, please do the French next as contrast.

The marvelous thing about therteen colonies, was the first country founded under an idea: freedom, happiness and life. In spanish america had no idea about this, and we can see the results...Saludos desde España.

What software do you use?

Spain and Portugal: We must share the world Britain, France, and Nederlands: Says who?

Crazy to think that one of my ancestors was one of the first to settle at Jamestown in the 1640s

What a powerhouse we are for such a small island 🇬🇧

He got with me that “behooved” part

English and British although can be used interchangeably sometimes are not the same thing, a channel of your size should not be getting mixed up when to use the correct term

What's the name of the background music that starts at 4:18.

Knowledgia sounds so smartified

The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.

A few critiques you keep saying British navy and British during the 1500s The correct term was English Britain the country didn't exist until 1707 Before that it was England so you say English

When the Jamestown colony faltered King James asked Edward Bennett to go to Virginia and with 600 colonist formed the Isle of Wight county, building the first successful venture in america.

I can't even believe that just 600 years ago, Europeans did not know about the existence of a whole continent across the ocean. In these 600 years, a new nation called the Americans was born. Of course, many peoples participated in the ethnogenesis of Americans, but still the basis of the American nation is the British, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Germans, French, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Africans, Native Americans. A little later, Italians, Poles, Jews, Russians, Chinese, Japanese and many other peoples arrived in the United States. This whole mix of peoples eventually gives birth to talented people. All these talented people make America great.

Imagine living through any of this, on either side.

Great history, dodgy geography. The Spanish retreat to the Netherlands was in the other direction. The prevailing wind didn't allow them to turn southwest. The English fleet was behind them.

Superficial. I must have missed where you explained how the English actually were able to establish successful colonies over land that did not grow tobacco.

Very interesting video

It seems forgotten that Queen Mary of England, was, king Phillip of Spain's wife. I might be perturbed by such disrespect, shown my loving spouse.

A small side note: New York (New Amsterdam 1614) was a colony founded by the Dutch. So no English colony. They eventually bought it from us, and renamed it New York (1664) Thats why there are citystreets with Dutch names in Manhatten.

Your graphics show the Spanish Armada retreating south through the English channel when the surviving ships were blown into the North Sea and they proceeded north of Scotland and west of Ireland to return to Spain.

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I had not realized that tobacco saved Jamestown.

Thank you for sharing this.

What map is that at 1:14? When was all of Ireland united in any way with England and Wales but Scotland was not?

I’m English ( I live in Essex, near London) and I wish I could have lived during the times of the first settlements. What a sight it must have been to see the endless forests that would have covered much of the continent. Such a shame that we have destroyed a lot of that now and those poor native tribes desperately trying to preserve their lands.

I enjoyed the video. Tks.