RH+Why+did+the+English+colonize+the+new+world?

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries English colonists were starting to colonize the New World. Rich investors spent almost all of their money going to the Americas. The land started to prove hazardous, people were dying, to the point where as little as ten percent of the colonists lived. They went through many hardships such as starvation and war but continued to stay in the New World. __The social and economical problems in England made the colonists look past the hardships in America and see the silver lining of it.__

England in the sixteenth century was facing some very heavy problems. There was a depression and there was less and less money going around. The overpopulation in prisons and cites was a big problem too. The extremities were getting stretched and bended. Whatever prisoners that did not fit in the prison were either let loose or killed. The richer Englishmen were told of a New World with lots of gold. The rich men spent a fortune on investments for the New World because they thought they would easily get it back. When the colonists arrived Jamestown, which was renamed and called Virginia in present day they found nothing. There was no gold but there were mosquitoes infested with the malaria. The insects and lack of food killed all but 38 of the original 104 colonists by spring. John Smith, the Captain of the colonists had badly burned his face and needed medical attention in England. Captain Davis led the people in the starving time. The men reverted to eating goats, horse skins, and even other people. Even after all that the English colonists stayed in the New World and more continued to come for a number of reasons. People wanted the fame of being the first to colonize this land properly. The investors had put in so much money that they could not possibly let go now. The social problems in England were not better and possibly even worse. The colonists stayed to have liberty, be free, English, men they were proud to be living or dying in America.

The English colonists were put through rough times. They stuck trough the hardships to renounce freedom and liberty. The English men were in no case willing to go back to the horrible parts of England and thought they were better off where they were. The New World became America because of the brave colonists that stayed in the New World.