Christianity and the Jamestown Settlement

  In the 1600s Europeans looked to expand their lands and establish colonies around the world. As English colonizers left Europe and headed to America, they brought with them their ideas and beliefs. One of the first places European settlers established their new residence was the colony of Jamestown. As English colonizers traveled in the early 1600s to the New World, they worked to establish a colony along the Chesapeake Bay. That region in the New World had the resources available for a colony to be successful. This occurred not necessary by want, but more out of default due to previous colonizers from Spain and Portugal that had captured islands and lands in South America and the Caribbean. [1] The initial establishment of the Jamestown settlement presented many risks and dangers to the colonists. There were cultural, political, and social ideologies that led to the establishment of the Virginia Colony. Generations of war had ended and there was peace between England and Spai...