2.2 - Supporting Question 2

Compelling Questions: Was colonization a good thing? For whom?

Supporting Question 2: Why did the English colonists settle in the Carolinas?

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Introduction

Due in part to imperial competition between England, France, and Spain, these countries sent bands of explorers and tempted colonists to the southeastern coast in the 1500s. The primitive maps, charts, and stories of the lands, including those captured Giovanni de Verrazano charts and Richard Hakluyt’s (1582) Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America and the Islands Adjacent, became well known among explorers. Sir Walter Raleigh became the representative figure in England’s attempts to establish a colony in the “New World.” Reports of the Carolinas as akin to the Garden of Eden provided rich propaganda to entice patrons, investors, government officials, and ordinary people to seek a new way of life overseas.

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