British America

Towards the end of the sixteenth century, Great Britain sought to place colonies in the New World in order to combat Spain’s successes in South America. The first two successful colonies in North America were Jamestown, founded in 1607, and Massachusetts Bay, founded in 1630. The New England and Chesapeake regions were settled mostly by people of English origin, both evolved into two distinct societies due to the purposes of the colonies, the people who populated the colonies, and the…

Fundamental Differences between the New England and Chesapeake Colonies During the 17th century, the English were leaving their country by the hundreds, all with different motivations to go to the New World. If you were headed toward New England, chances are you were a Puritan trying to escape religious persecution, and you valued family and unity. If you were headed toward the Chesapeake colonies, you were likely an indentured servant headed to work on a large plantation, or you were a farmer…

After seven years of fighting, in 1763, Britain won the war to control North America. However, the price of victory was steep with British war due to the massive debt that resulted from the French and Indian War. The young, inexperienced King George III, along with a new group of British politicians, determined the increasingly independent and rebellious colonists ought to pay their share of the costs of victory accrued during and after the war. Adding to their political and economic…

What were the thirteen colonies? The thirteen colonies were a large group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the united states of America. By doing this the colonies had to go through many trials like departing from Great Britain the ones that founded them, mercantilism, slavery and many more trials like all of the battles we had to fight in to get not only our independence but…

Colonies British New World Colonies were established in different regions of the present day East Coast of North America, but the motives for establishment, social, political, and economic aspects couldn’t have varied more greatly. The different terrains of land and relationships with Britain seemed to set the colonies and their settlers more different than alike, but with their shared economic roots in agriculture, variant importance of religion, and “a distinctive identity as British…

become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America” (Grymes). As for the New England colonies, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island…

people. Those who could understand better about the events and factors in history that push and pull British coming to America and establishing their lives at the New World. 3. What do you find interesting or important about this document? The importance of document is factors of pushing and pulling English colonists who moved to American in the seventeenth century. The British went to America to find new opportunities for having a larger land and a better environment. The New World could…

and fifty years later. This poignant quote is part of a remarkably well-written speech, given at the Virginia Convention in 1775. The purpose of this meeting was to decide whether or not America should declare war on the British, which we ultimately did. Patrick Henry’s goal was to convince the convention that America could only prosper through separation by means of war. Henry used powerful imagery, careful diction, personal credibility, and keen logic to strongly deliver his message, that…

Entry 11 History on the beginnings of English America offers a holistic review of the colonies of New England and Chesapeake. Particularly, it focuses on the period between 1607 and 1660 and draws interest on the motives and reasons behind the colonization of the New World by the English. I find the exploration of how the lives of the Indians are transformed following the Great Migration to North America during this period very interesting. It effectively brings out the different happenings and…

England coming over to America was a new experience for them; however, there were other immigrant groups there before the English. There were the Native Americans and the Spaniards, and they were all fighting for land in order to make more plantations meaning more money. England ended up going to war with the Natives and the French called the French and Indian War that lasted seven years until the it ended with the English winning and the creation of the Treaty of Paris, forcing borders between…