Histoy Of American ; "The Colonial Period"

      The early 1600s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration fro Europe to North America. Spanning more then three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonist to a floodtide of newcimers numbered in the millions. Impelled by powerful and diverse motivations, they built a new civilization on a once savage continent.

( http://bloomp.net/articles ; Mon, 10-11-2016)

The first English immigrants to what is now the United Stares crossed the Atlantic long after thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indian, and South America. Like all early travelers to the new world, they came in small, overcrowded ships. During their six- to 12-week voyages lived on meager rations.Many of them died of disease; ships were often battered by storms, and some were lost at sea.
To the weary voyager the sight of the American shore brought immense relief. Said one chronicler: 'The air at 12 leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.' The colonists' first glimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods. True, the woods were inhabited by Indians, many of whom were hostile, and the threat of Indian attack would add to the hardships of daily life. But the vast, virgin forests, extending nearly 2,100 kilometers along the eastern seaboard from north to south, would prove to be a treasure-house, providing abundant food, fuel, and a rice source of row materials for houses, furniture, ships, and profitable cargoes for export.

(http://www.audubon.org; Mon, 10-11-2016)

The first permanent English settlement in America was a trading post founded in 1607 at Jamestown, in the Old Dominion of Virginia. This region was soon to develop a flourishing economy from its tobacco crop, which found a ready market in Englan. By 1620, when women were recuited in England to come to Virginia, marry, and make their homes, great plantations had already risen along the James River, and the population had in creased to a thousand settlers. ( Keith W. dkk,1990 :01).