Before the groups of colonists we know now, there’s the story of Roanoke. A well known theory is that the colonists simply just up and disappeared, but in reality the word left behind “Roanoke” was an island nearby home to native Americans. A theory is that these colonists left to join the native American society. What came after were the Jamestown colonists, hellbent on finding gold. Then the puritans, who’s strict religious rules give a cultish like feel. Indentured servants who were basically slaves, promised a new life in the new world but only after they worked for years for the higher-class. Then the first form of government, which did not work in the long run, was made; the mayflower compact.