Early Explorers of Colonial America

  • Jamestown, Virginia: Tobacco King

    Jamestown, Virginia: Tobacco King

    You probably know about the Mayflower Pilgrims, but they weren’t the first English colonists. Several years before the Pilgrims arrived, settlers arrived in Virginia. The Pilgrims came to America for religious reasons, but others came looking for opportunity. England was a crowded, dirty place and America seemed to hold the…