18th century

The 18th century was a time of change and reform for Americans. Having gained newfound independence from Great Britain, they now faced the task of coming up with an efficient way to govern themselves. After a long process, both the Constitution, and eventually the Bill of Rights, both emerged and both which are still the governing documents of America today. In Jack Rakove’s book, Declaring Rights, he states that “how Americans thought about bills of rights was a function of how they thought…

During the late 17th century the need for slaves became dire for many farmers in the English colony of Virginia. The push from the Europeans for the cash crop such as Tobacco resulted in a detrimental need of help on the fields. At this time indentured servants could only do some much work. Therefore, the farmers needed more support, and Slaves was just the answer to that. The increasing number of slaves raised significantly in the 18th century. The relationship between slaves and slave-owners…

The European exploration has forever changes the lives of the North Americas in the 14th to 18th century. The Spanish, French, and British countries were driven by three basic motives: a desire for material gain, a desire to spread religion, and a desire to expand territory. Using these motives, they created effects in the culture, economy, and religion of the areas that were colonized, especially in the Americas. One impact of European exploration is a change in the culture of the…

Modern Americans take pride in certain unalienable human rights as well as the ability to self-govern. The guiding principles of the United States would not be present without the efforts of colonial immigrants in the 18th century. While the colonies were originally created as means to support British mercantilism, over time the inhabitants of these colonies began to develop their own sense of nationality and ideas about how a governing body should run. After the French and Indian War, British…

Chapter 15: Why was northwestern Europe the center of economic growth in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Northwestern Europe experienced strong economic growth for the following reasons: Population growth, increased agriculture productivity, enhanced trade and manufacturing practices and colonial expansion to other countries/continents. France and Britain opened up profitable trading routes to the Americas and the Caribbean. The political shift was from expansionism to international…

The Native and African alliance in the later part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century could be better described as a political partnership with common interests. They both cooperated against British occupation and aggression, and later American expansion and slave raids. The tenuous partnership began disintegrating more so as early as the 1845 Treaty with the Creeks, which would be temporarily moderated with the elimination of all slavery among the Seminoles and the other…

because poor people were getting taxed heavily on salt, the royal family was taking their grain, and the enlightenment got many rioters together to fight for their rights. royal the royal family to lose its authority. Living as a peasant in eighteenth century france is already hard enough. You have to survive with very little food, money, and resources. The only way the poor made money was by working for small employers, Farming necessary crops that they need more for food than money, and by…

Indenture work was a solution established to bring labors to British colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although initially all the servants came from England, throughout the colonial period migrants from other countries joined the flow of servants to British America; Scottish, Irish, and German immigrants arrived in the colonies under indenture especially in the eighteenth century. The time of service, loan for transportation, and wage were negotiated by English merchants…

women practiced alternative medicine to help people, especially young women to conceive and give birth, hence, they had a great deal of responsibility for the survival of the community. Because this was a very delicate job during the seventeenth-century, there was a risk of thing going wrong, and women were often blamed for someone’s sickness, incident, or death. According to John Winthrop, Massachusetts’s governor, “Jane Hawkins was used to give young women oil of mandrakes and other stuff to…

The modern era marked a trifecta of social, economic and legal changes. Historically, Christianity was a major influence to the criminal justice system. However, beginning in the 17th century and extending as late as the 20th century the criminal justice system underwent major challenges that drove the system to transform, from an fickle and unprecedented legal code into an objective justice system. The social and economic changes that permeated throughout Europe, specifically London, England…