Early European Settlement of North America Explained

Here's the story of the first Europeans to permanently settle in North America.
Music by Electric Needle Room. www.electricneedleroom.us
All images found in the public domain.
Each year, it picked up, with the English, Spanish, French, and soon Dutch setting up more and more colonies.
Three main groups came to settle in the colonies.
1. Economic immigrants, who were those looking for a better life. This group included the indentured servants, or people who paid for their passage to the New World by being forced to work for somebody for a certain number of years before getting their freedom. Most of the indentured servants were English farmers who had been pushed off their lands due to overcrowding. Up to ⅔ of European immigrants who came to the American colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution were indentured servants.
2. Religious immigrants, who came to practice their religion freely. Included in this group were the famous Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Colony.
3. Forced immigrants, who came over as slaves, mostly from Africa.
It was the English immigrants who dominated in what later became the United States of America, probably because they came to live in larger numbers during the 1600s. From about 1630 to 1640 alone, around 20,000 Puritans crossed the Atlantic to live in New England. Even today, people with English ancestry arguably make up the largest group of Americans, though it is hard to know for sure. 8 out of the 10 most common last names in the United States are of English or British Isles origin.

[@mnetomarcelo]

Thanks Mr. Beat, you were the only video that helped my in my History project!

[@rexmundi3108]

St.John's Newfoundland is one of the oldest settlements in North America .On 5 August 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed the area as England's first overseas colony under Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. Residency was seasonal for a few decades however so it can't claim to be the oldest city. The first European settlement was Hop, founded by Thorfin Karlsefni circa 1000 AD, also in Newfoundland although it's location has not yet been officially confirmed, Fellow Norseman Leif Ericson's settlement from around the same time was located at the tip of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula near the present day town of L'anse aux Meadows.

[@EdinburghFive]

Although Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England the area had been utilized by European fishermen for nearly one hundred years. The French had also claimed the eastern region of North America, including Newfoundland, even earlier. Jacques Cartier established a short lived settlement in Quebec 1530s.

[@EdinburghFive]

St Augustine, Florida was founded in 1565.

[@dresimagnum]

Leif Eiriksson was Icelandic.

[@justarandomguy537]

@@EdinburghFive nope it was in 1510

[@EdinburghFive]

@@justarandomguy537 So 1510 for Cartier establishing his settlement at Quebec? You had better check your facts. Cartier was on about 19 in 1510. I don't think the King of France was granting 19 year olds the lead on any such expeditions.

[@RagingRocco]

Mr. Beat I really enjoy your videos and the music to go along with them. they very fun to watch.. Cheers!!

[@iammrbeat]

+Raging Roc Thanks so much! You've got some entertaining videos on your channel too, good sir.

[@christopherforero8261]

thank you so much for the info.

[@RC-ey4gm]

Thank you.

[@kelcritcarroll]

Very interesting!

[@user-cy1pu9tf1v]

Just wish the music wasn't getting so loud and intense. But good representation.

[@doreathasmithalbright7476]

SO GOOD. THANKS

[@telialei3715]

this was a great video!! helped me alot

[@4sheis]

Ohh waw , thank you very much sir

[@eldadesta9343]

you dropped this SIR👑

[@readingthroughhistor]

How in the world did you fit all of that into six minutes and nineteen seconds?

[@iammrbeat]

+Reading Through History Well, I made this video for Learning Bird (you should get your videos on there), so I had to get it under 6 minutes, actually. :) It was rather difficult, considering I could easily make a 10 minute video about Jamestown alone.

[@jingsndthings]

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[@kelvinbanks3534]

It’s just sad hisssssyory is still being told. This isn’t correct cause it may have happen to European but Africa was among they first explores. Threw South America and Central America finally America. They found African culture in Ohio. Why do you think it’s rumor of lost city of gold around the grand canon. In old letter from English kings they speak about the gold in Africa being like dust in England. So it was everywhere in Africa. Tell the correct story you always have to proven you was in the beginning and they wasn’t. Now Columbus is still celebrated but never found America. Never sailed to America. He called everyone Indians cause he thought he was in the indies. So he could of called African Indians cause he was clueless where the he’ll he was.

[@ysfdxvid]

he talks fast :/

[@justinmaduako4315]

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[@williamcfox]

Your Spanish pronunciation isn't half bad! Say it with confidence and speed! Just be careful to never add the funky spanish "C" and "Z" lisp. lol. Then you'll come off sounding like a kid back from his semester abroad. Another good video.

[@iammrbeat]

+Fox Cousins haha, yeah I try to hard to get it right that I sometimes add too much. I always found French names easier to pronounce than Spanish. Thanks for watching!

[@Trikipum]

What funky lisp.. C and Zs are pronounced like "th" in english, more or less.. what is wrong is using said pronuntiation with the Ss or simply pronouncing Cs and Zs as they were Ss...

[@mehdirizvi5556]

I’m hear for social studies homework 😂🤣🤣

[@emmgeevideo]

You hopefully went somewhere else to do your spelling homework: "here", not "hear"

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@@emmgeevideo bro i said that a year ago💀💀 please go get a life instead of insulting random people you find on the internet

[@emmgeevideo]

@@mehdirizvi5556 I was only trying to be helpful. You sound overly sensitive. You probably need professional help. I hope you find inner peace rather than yelling at random people on the Internet.

[@mehdirizvi5556]

@@emmgeevideo who said i was yelling?😭😭

[@user-cf9np9cy8q]

Yes all us whites came over here from Dutch, English Irish etc. My background is English father and mother descended from Irish. My last name is Blackwell

[@JamesAnderson2390]

My last name is Anderson

[@TheJalipa]

Great Video! Did you know that Sweden founded New Sweden in Delaware in the 1600s. Got taken over by the Dutch in the 1640s Not surprising as it's little known about

[@leealoevera5912]

Wow

[@kevcaratacus9428]

new York was originally named New Amsterdam by the Dutch, I think Britain brought it & changed name to new York

[@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971]

Everyone knows NYC used to be New Amsterdam

[@jonalygalacal7943]

Why many religious groups from europe went to the americas??? I need answer:

[@mcq2050]

Any updates on the archeological discoveries of the lost colony of Roanoke

[@mcq2050]

*?

[@mcq2050]

Ik I could google this but seems like a cool video idea if there is any interesting findings

[@HEAVYDIAPER]

Hey Mr. Beat can you answer this for me in the comments and eventually perhaps make a video? When the Europeans came over to the New World, how did the Native Americans and Europeans understand each other at first? How did they communicate?

[@iammrbeat]

Man, that's a great question. I think that's a superb idea for a more broad video about how different peoples communicate in general. I will add that to my list of things to research.

[@EdinburghFive]

They did it the same way people all over the world have communicated with each other. The New World people were not any different.

[@almagoh8436]

Very good information... but very annoying music.

[@lizdyson3627]

Mr Beat could you explain when and maybe how all these different nationalities came to speak with the American accents we hear today. Why didn't they carry down there own native accents? Was it biological, environmental or interacial relationships that played a part in it? Many thanks.

[@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971]

Natural course of events. Old accents are lost, new accents form due to a diverse group of people speaking to and living amongst each other. But you used to be able to hear the accents much more in years gone by. Irish people in New York and Boston, Italians all over the North East, Ashkenazi Jews, Scotch Irish in the Deep South... And you can somewhat still hear the influence although it is much less noticeable in this globalised and extremely multicultural era

[@lizdyson3627]

Thanks that's very interesting.

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[@Octavian7771]

My paternal ancestor Kaspar immigrated from the Holy Roman Empire (Schleswig-Holstein) to 'New Holland' in 1648 with his wife as an indentured servant. He worked 7 years and then was given a title to land in what is now Albany NY. Using his skills acquired over the first several years in America, he started a farm. They came over, because there was no opportunity in Europe. The land was deforested and the earth was over-used. Over the years most of the large animals had been slaughtered for food. And the land had been over-used, with insufficient crop yields to adequately feed the population. They didn't come to conquer, they came to have a better life.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

Mine came to have a better life too. Some were problematic and some were wanting to survive.

[@fernandocascales7414]

Wrong. Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was the first European to try a settlement in North America, not a French.

[@SN64]

wow

[@brittanyhayes1043]

I love my European Settler and Coloial ancestors.

[@Bambi7ish]

I don't as well as many others. The Natives and ancestors who were slaves would likely concur.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@Bambi7ish Pretty sure you are related to one.

[@poopityscoopscoopitywhoopl6159]

Anyone else notice how the lighting makes his hair have a line of perfect light like an anime character

[@blackboxbs8642]

St johns Newfoundland?

[@simplycarolina3468]

I enjoyed this but what i wanted to know was why they left, like what caused them to leave I understand that many of them left to get away from pursicution but like what corrupted the english church?

[@iammrbeat]

God, glory, and gold...the 3 Gs

[@johndoe-wv3nu]

Deforestation, over-population

[@MrSkittlez313]

Lot of them were promised free land. The people that came here were the 2nd class citizen

[@thatsrightmytype2933]

Mr beat can u please please answer my question my question is what was the reaction of the Inuits to the European settlement were the Inuits angry happy or sad about it please answer me. Pls answer

[@iammrbeat]

I will have to research that and get back to you.

[@thatsrightmytype2933]

Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel no it's okay now I got the answer thank u very much doe.

[@EdinburghFive]

The Inuit people of the arctic are a relatively new group in the north. For example when the Norse settled in Greenland and Newfoundland they interacted with the Dorset people and Innu. The Thule people (Inuit) then invaded the North sometime after 1000 AD. Conflict with the Dorset maybe one reason why the Norse settlements failed.

[@jessezuniga1280]

Right of the bat he skips the beginning of the story

[@jaygurley9621]

What is this song called specifically?

[@luisabravo9548]

1:17 sounds like he is saying Cardi A he probably discovered old zealend

[@reggiewilliams4246]

Why do they called European, settlers, when they were immigrants?

[@dariqueking5713]

Lmaoo thank you !!

[@fionnmoules7620]

darique king because they came and built new settlements immigrants come to already built of settlements

[@zwilson5286]

Lonewalker yes

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Humans always lie, period. Lonewalker sounds like a fucking looney, a Nationalistic looney on top of it all, which is even worse. You think lying doesn't occur in the Southern hemisphere or something? Get fuckin' real, fucking wackadoo.

[@truthhurts3023]

there is a difference between europeans migrating and Mexicans migrating: when europeans migrated to America, it was was poor with no resource, no government, no law, no system Mexicans are migrating to America because of its wealth--which was built by European settlers.

[@siamiam]

well done :)

[@iammrbeat]

+siamiam Thank you kindly!

[@CityWideRondough]

How do you know that forced slaves came mostly from Africa? What about the more than 100000000 indigenous people who is considered lost. Why didn’t they force them into slavery instead of making that risky trip across the Atlantic??????

[@EdinburghFive]

Many indigenous people were in fact sold into slavery. This took place by both indigenous as well as Europeans. Indigenous people enslaved other Indigenous people, they sold other indigenous people to Europeans, etc.

[@carlosgarciaofficial5095]

Indianas who made it difficult 🤔the real owners of the 🇺🇸

[@truthhurts3023]

there is a difference between europeans migrating and Mexicans migrating: when europeans migrated to America, it was was poor with no resource, no government, no law, no system Mexicans are migrating to America because of its wealth--which was built by European settlers.

[@maxaudet5177]

In fact the tribes were pretty organized, they had a vast commercial system, they populated the whole continent and there werent any major conflicts except for a few little wars from time to time as for the gov they had one inside the tribes and the land always was full of ressources

[@EdinburghFive]

Hi @@maxaudet5177 - The idea there weren't "any major conflicts" in the New World would not be the case. There were as you know some pretty major empires in the New World such as the Aztecs, Inca, and Cahokians. These did not come about without warfare. Also you should keep in mind that 'traditional' societies, which most of the tribes of the New World fall into, were in fact very violent. Each tribe had to protect their territory and resources from other tribes. Everyone who was not of your tribe and not known was suspect and you were prepared to fight and kill them. A matter of survival. Traditional societies are in fact much more violent than more complex societies.

[@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971]

Stupid cringeworthy clown aka "Truth Hurts"

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@maxaudet5177 Yet they never got diease and got poor immunity which mainly ratioed them.

[@Bambi7ish]

They built their wealth off if FREE LABOR after enslaving millions of Africans.

[@coconutcoconut-rr2ws]

The first Europeans in America were Solutreans 17,000 years ago.

[@KeyofDavid5778]

I wonder why nobody mentions that!

[@matthewmann8969]

Early and not the best of times

[@calebjacobus9683]

why

[@kennywright1021]

I assume that most of the last names were of slaveowners passed down through the slaves ancestry?

[@timbuktu8069]

No Vikings?

[@iammrbeat]

See an earlier episode.

[@lawrenceferguson1173]

that's not true. the viking came here ,700years befor everyone else

[@iammrbeat]

+Lawrence Ferguson Lief Erikson was a Viking

[@reggiewilliams4246]

Lawrence Ferguson Lol Wrong

[@georgehh2574]

Reggie Williams He's right actually, the Vikings were the first people to discover it but didn't settle there.

[@standforchange08]

Lawrence Ferguson kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZnVZZp7eNSMkK8 By the way the deeper they dig, the blacker it gets. We are not mongloids! This is why these police still cowboy and Indians on our people. Mother Nature going very upset. Peace and blessings

[@maxaudet5177]

@@georgehh2574 they did settle in they had a few houses at New-Foundland

[@michaeljordanfansaretheworst]

How do you do a background like that?

[@oneidapaguada2309]

How do you know there's a Mr.beat

[@Lynthrix]

..?

[@gc9542]

Good info, BAD soundtrack, sorry !!!

[@LemonBee1]

Sooo European-Americans!!!

[@Steve-zc9ht]

White Americans don't call themselves European there just American they been in america for so many years they have no more ties to Europe there's a HUGE difference between white Europeans and white Americans

[@LemonBee1]

@@Steve-zc9ht sure there's a difference maybe the language and culture!!

[@hotshotgames4569]

video is so fast you need to slow it down you so called "good teacher"

[@ysfdxvid]

can u stop posting and delete all vids so out teacher stops making us do work

[@hotshotgames4569]

also you some of the facts in the video are out of date, look at the other comments

[@amberaddison9840]

Im a descendant of the ppl from the lost colony supposedly ....😏

[@johndoe-wv3nu]

- any family stories? My family came to RI in 1631.

[@EdinburghFive]

If the people of the colony were lost how do you know you descend from them?

[@stewartmclaughlin1199]

Because the information was passed down her family only, and only they knew where they were, and never told anybody.

[@EdinburghFive]

@@stewartmclaughlin1199 Cute. My family lore says we descend from a long line of lost German kings. Nice story, but of course not true.

[@JamesAnderson2390]

My family came in 1650s @@EdinburghFive

[@BleuCorona]

Nice likes

[@starriderkittykat9064]

Why are we told the first people here we're in Plymouth Ma? There was also Irish Slaved labor back then.

[@kevcaratacus9428]

I wanted American history as in what became USA Columbus didn't step foot on mainland America. Britain, sir Walter Raleigh landed on what became USA in 1570s & 80s & 90s . He named the east coast Virginia. After the virgin Queen of England Elizabeth 1st ( the last of the Tudors)

[@cjdubuc73]

Mr. Beat. In 3:38 you called Native Americans "Indians" i'll have you know that it isnt the year 1500 and it is highly offencive to my people.

[@iammrbeat]

Sorry I offended you, but I offend others when I use the term "Native American." Most historians still use the term "Indian," so I wonder why you are offended? Do you know why you are offended? I guess I can't make everyone happy.

[@FukU2222]

Smae thing here in Canada, Aboriginal/Indigenous were PC and now they are rejected/offensive and there is some other term..... Can never please some people...

[@FukU2222]

I think it's First Nations now here in Canada....

[@Ptaku93]

OH MY IT ISN'T YEAR 1500?! Who knew? :o

[@standforchange08]

Cj Dubuc He called it right because the Indians still here, not watered down natives. What an insult to the American Indians. Go and look the people who changed the name , 200 Jewish Italian Spaniard . None are real American Indians. Shame on you all.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZnVZZp7eNSMkK8 we know our story better then any.

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