. The story of corn and the westward migration. the changes in manner of living, andreligious intolerance, all contributed to the settlementand growth of the American continent. The success of the Spaniards had set every countrywild over the prospects of great wealth to be foundin this new land. But the English-were free to settleonly that portion of the new continent along theAtlantic coast between the St. Lawrence River andFlorida, where no gold was to be found. Becauseof this, several commercial companies, seeing theunsettled labor conditions in Europe, conceived theidea of settling colonie
. The story of corn and the westward migration. the changes in manner of living, andreligious intolerance, all contributed to the settlementand growth of the American continent. The success of the Spaniards had set every countrywild over the prospects of great wealth to be foundin this new land. But the English-were free to settleonly that portion of the new continent along theAtlantic coast between the St. Lawrence River andFlorida, where no gold was to be found. Becauseof this, several commercial companies, seeing theunsettled labor conditions in Europe, conceived theidea of settling colonies of people along the fertile A New Continent and a New Food 63 valleys of the coast and deriving a considerablerevenue from the trade growing out of their prod-ucts of the soil, forest, and mountains. With thisintention the companies obtained large grants ofland from the king, equipped some small sailingvessels, filled them with families, and in 1607started them on the first voyage to a countrythree thousand miles from home. One unsuccessful. From Maces Stories of Heroism The ruins of Jamestown as they appeared in 18^y. Here in i6oywas made the first permanent English settlement in America attempt to plant a colony on Roanoke Island hadbeen made a quarter of a century before. This timethe expedition entered the mouth of ChesapeakeBay and landed on a little peninsula, now an island,a short distance up the bay. On this island wasfounded the Jamestown colony. Early Difficulties. This settlement consisted atfirst of about a hundred people. Of this numberthe majority were classed as gentlemen; only twelve 64 The Story of Corn men in the whole company were laborers who knewanything at all about tilling the soil or were accus-tomed to hard work. It is easy to see, therefore,that such a company, locating in a country infestedwith bears, wolves, and hostile Indians, would meetwith many difficulties. The soil was new to them;the climate was different from that to which theywere accustom
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