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è Black Africans were slaves brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States. Nevertheless, African Americans have made basic and lasting contributions to American history and  culture . è The uninterrupted history of blacks in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English  colony  of Virginia. è  By the 1660s  large numbers  of Africans were being brought to the English colonies.  è Black people were easily distinguished by their skin colour  è Moreover, the development of the belief that they were an “inferior” race with a “heathen” culture made it easier for whites to rationalize black slavery. Enslaved blacks were put to work clearing and  cultivating  the farmlands of the New World. è Of an estimated 10 million Afri...

è Virginia Company , also called  London Company or commercial trading company, chartered by King  James I  of  England  in April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of  North America   . In December 1606 the Virginia Company sent out three ships carrying approximately 105 colonists led by  Christopher Newport . In May 1607 the colonists reached  Virginia . In 1619 the company established continental America’s first true legislature . Despite increasing prosperity in Virginia over the following years, the company’s role came under attack as internecine disputes among the shareholders grew and as the king himself became offended both by the trend toward popular government in Virginia and by the colony’s efforts to raise  tobacco . The court ruled against the Virginia Company, which was then dissolved, with the result that Virginia was transformed into a royal colony.

JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610.  During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east; it remained the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699. Known variously as James Forte, James Towne and James Cittie, the new settlement initially consisted of a wooden fort built in a triangle around a storehouse for weapons and other supplies, a church and a number of houses.  The colony was a private venture, financed and organized by the  Virginia Company  of London. King  James I  granted a charter to a group of i...

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. Sioux: also known as lakota, are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. Apache: are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache