American Colonial History, 1607-1775
Colonial Farm Kitchen. Notice clock in the corner. American Colonial History, 1607-1775 THE 1600s Preliminary Comments About 100,000 Europeans emigrated to the American colonies in the 1600s. They were risk-takers. They left long-settled communities and societies to get on small, crowded sailing ships to make the dangerous 3,000 voyage to a new land that was mostly wilderness. About 5% died. They had to adapt to a new, frontier environment of forests and swamps. They had to “tame the howling wilderness.” A high percent of the European immigrants in this period were from England. Almost all were Protestants. Emigrants from England came over in three “waves.” Then a fourth 'wave" came to the North American colonies in the 1700s. They were four distinctly different groups of people from different areas of the English isles. To understand why these four groups left England and Scotland, at different times and for different reasons, it is necess...