England’s ruling system by a parliament started in 1215, after the Magna Carta was signed. The basic concept was; No one is above the law, people who are taxed would have representation, and the right to a fair trial.
James VI of Scotland became King James I after Queen Elizabeth died. James claimed he answered only to God, which meant his life was going to be cut short sooner or later.
Criticizers of the Anglican Church were Dissenters, and the Puritans were exactly that, wanting to discontinue rituals and simplify religion. They eventually left the church, and created their own, the Separatists. Many escaped England because of the persecution, and sailed to America as Pilgrims.
After Ireland was conquered, the term ‘Plantation’ came from …show more content…
Mason and Gorges divided the land in 1629, Mason taking New Hampshire and Gorges taking Maine.
In the 1640s, Massachusetts got too big for it’s britches and took control of New Hampshire, then parts of Maine in the 1650s. Judges ruled against Massachusetts in 1979, so New Hampshire became a royal colony. Maine was incorporated into Massachusetts in 1691.
After New York was claimed for the English, the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was given to two men, Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley, and was named Jersey. In 1676, it was divided into East and West Jersey, with Berkeley taking the West.
The Society of Friends, or The Quakers (no one could know Christ without ‘quaking and trembling”) was the most controversial of the religious break offs post the English Civil War. The Quakers refused all kinds of political and religious authority, or paying taxes. For their ‘crimes’, their nostrils were slit, their ears were cut off, their tongues were pierced by hot metal, or their forehead branded with H. (Does anyone see a pattern with religion …show more content…
Until the American Revolution, it shared Pennsylvania’s governor.
Georgia was established in 1732, the last of the English colonies for the time being. King George gave the land to 21 trustees, appointed to govern the land. Unlike other colonies, it was a military buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish controlled land of Florida, while also serving as an experimental mixing pot of refugees, debtors, and others. It succeeded as a military buffer, but failed the experiment. In 1754, it became a royal colony, eventually exporting rice, lumber, beef, and pork over the next decade.
The Iroquois nations of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Oneida were convinced by Hiawatha to forge an alliance, the Iroquois League. Their numbers, by the early 17th century over 12,000, forced the Dutch and English traders work with the Indians to get beaver pelts. Battles raged between the Iroquois, supported by the Dutch and English, and the Algonquians and their French Allies, the
James VI of Scotland became King James I after Queen Elizabeth died. James claimed he answered only to God, which meant his life was going to be cut short sooner or later.
Criticizers of the Anglican Church were Dissenters, and the Puritans were exactly that, wanting to discontinue rituals and simplify religion. They eventually left the church, and created their own, the Separatists. Many escaped England because of the persecution, and sailed to America as Pilgrims.
After Ireland was conquered, the term ‘Plantation’ came from …show more content…
Mason and Gorges divided the land in 1629, Mason taking New Hampshire and Gorges taking Maine.
In the 1640s, Massachusetts got too big for it’s britches and took control of New Hampshire, then parts of Maine in the 1650s. Judges ruled against Massachusetts in 1979, so New Hampshire became a royal colony. Maine was incorporated into Massachusetts in 1691.
After New York was claimed for the English, the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was given to two men, Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley, and was named Jersey. In 1676, it was divided into East and West Jersey, with Berkeley taking the West.
The Society of Friends, or The Quakers (no one could know Christ without ‘quaking and trembling”) was the most controversial of the religious break offs post the English Civil War. The Quakers refused all kinds of political and religious authority, or paying taxes. For their ‘crimes’, their nostrils were slit, their ears were cut off, their tongues were pierced by hot metal, or their forehead branded with H. (Does anyone see a pattern with religion …show more content…
Until the American Revolution, it shared Pennsylvania’s governor.
Georgia was established in 1732, the last of the English colonies for the time being. King George gave the land to 21 trustees, appointed to govern the land. Unlike other colonies, it was a military buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish controlled land of Florida, while also serving as an experimental mixing pot of refugees, debtors, and others. It succeeded as a military buffer, but failed the experiment. In 1754, it became a royal colony, eventually exporting rice, lumber, beef, and pork over the next decade.
The Iroquois nations of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Oneida were convinced by Hiawatha to forge an alliance, the Iroquois League. Their numbers, by the early 17th century over 12,000, forced the Dutch and English traders work with the Indians to get beaver pelts. Battles raged between the Iroquois, supported by the Dutch and English, and the Algonquians and their French Allies, the