Learning Objective 4

Learning Objective 4

As Spain began to colonize the Americas other countries such as Great Britain and France took notice of the fruits that the Americas could offer. As Spain colonized Mexico and parts of south America, Great Britain founded Jamestown, and France founded Quebec. Though during the 1500s Britain's first attempt to colonize the Americas failed due to the fact of internal conflicts that was occurring at that time. Later King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church in the 1530s and later English Protestant Reformation. After Elizabeth I became queen, Britain and Spain began to have a religious tensions between the two countries. As the religious outrages began many Protestants went on a voyage from England to the new world in the Mayflower. After the British landed, they where bombarded by famine, disease, fatigue, and sorrow for many of their ship mates had succumb to illnesses and hunger. As the British settled down they gave birth to Jamestown. Though with creating a new town many problems occurred such as poor conditions for drinking water ad the area surrounding Jamestown was pure swamp land due to the constant humidity this attracted mosquitoes causing malaria and yellow fever. To add on to all of ths many of he men where struck by gold fever, instead of building wells to have a substantial amount of drinkable water or helping improve on their progressions as a town they where off looking for gold.