Title: 
Headings: What were the reasons European countries wanted colonies in North America?

Content: English
 
Interests

 
Jamestown
 
became
 
England’s
 
first
 
permanent
 
colony
 
in
 
1607. One
 
of
 
the
 
main
 
reasons
 
for
 
establishing
 
colonies
 
was
 
economic
 
gain. England
 
realized
 
the
 
colonies
 
could
 
provide
 
natural
 
resources
 
for
 
its
 
economic
 
benefit. Thus,
 
mercantilism
 
was
 
set
 
up. This
 
is
 
an
 
economic
 
policy
 
designed
 
to
 
make
 
England
 
self-sufficient
 
and
 
able
 
to
 
sell
 
more
 
goods
 
to
 
foreign
 
countries
 
than
 
it
 
had
 
to
 
buy
 
from
 
them. Crops
 
such
 
as
 
tobacco,
 
grapes,
 
and
 
rice
 
could
 
be
 
grown
 
in
 
the
 
colonies,
 
sent
 
back
 
to
 
England,
 
and
 
turned
 
into
 
finished
 
products. Also,
 
the
 
colonies
 
provided
 
a
 
market
 
for
 
those
 
goods. Through
 
the
 
1600s,
 
England
 
established
 
colonies
 
including
 
Plymouth
 
and
 
Charleston,
 
giving
 
it
 
a
 
solid
 
line
 
of
 
control
 
along
 
the
 
Atlantic
 
coast. A
 
New
 
Colony

 
The
 
British
 
knew
 
the
 
frontier
 
of
 
South
 
Carolina
 
was
 
unprotected. A
 
large
 
area
 
of
 
land
 
was
 
being
 
eyed
 
by
 
all
 
three
 
countries.