However, both attempts to settle the land failed. In 1606, a group of merchants known as the (4) ___ sent 144 settlers to build a new colony in America where they were to look for gold and establish trade in (5) . These new colonists named their settlement (6) _.

The story of how settlement by the English in North America, particularly the lands that today belong to the United States, has been widely taught. English interest in the newly discovered lands, and in establishing colonies, came during the 15th century, after seeing the success of what were the Spanish colonies.

As such, around 1606, King James I signed a charter to allow the London Company, also known as the Virginia Company of London to establish a new colony in what today is Virginia. From this charter was born the colony of Jamestown in 1604. The other colony that was permitted to form through the charter was the one in New England and that was to be settled by the Plymouth Company, or Virginia Company of Plymouth. Given this small background story, the answers to your questions would be:

However, both attempts to settle the land failed. In 1606, a group of merchants known as the Virginia Company sent 144 settlers to build a new colony in America where they were to look for gold and establish trade in fish and furs (among other crops). These new colonists named their settlement Jamestown.

This settlement of Jamestown became the first known permanent English settlement in the Americas and it opened up the doors for the arrival, aftwerwards of large numbers of British to settle the newly colonized lands.