European Colonization in the New World

... European Colonization in the New World Anthony Milbut American History I Professor Ken Rodgers This paper will elaborate on the 17th century European motives for expansion and colonization into the New World. I will also describe the different colonial transplantations that occurred in Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts Bay, as well as discuss details of the major sources of conflict between the Native Americans and the English in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay. The expansion of Europeans into the New World started long before the first settler reached the eastern shore of modern day America. "The Black Death, a plague that swept through Europe in 1347, destroyed more than a third of the people on the continent, and decimated an already limited economy."1 (Brinkley, 2007) Nearly 150 years later, the population had recovered. With

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