British America

America the Story of Us Episode 1: Rebels In May of 1610 a ship named “The Deliverance” was making its way towards America. Young English farmers were upon this ship taking the treacherous journey in search of a new life. The majority of the common people will not make it to see the land of the free. But that does not shift the people's persuasion in the chance of opportunity. Land, wilderness, gems, and more are laid throughout the America’s waiting to be claimed. Ten years later new…

From: Julien Ghisellini To: Bincy Abdul Samad Date: 9/29/2015 19th Century: The expedience and enslaving tendencies in America. In his book A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki compares the Americas to the wilderness in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Written in 1611, this play was based on an English ship that was going to Virginia but accidentally ran into the Bermudas. By using this type of metaphor, Takaki wants to represent English expansion into the New World. Caliban – a native of the…

Similar to the Spanish, the British had hoped that colonizing the New World would help improve things back home in England, and they were correct. As the amount of money continued to grow, the British began to get greed and began using slavery and violence to achieve the successes that they wanted. “While battling against Indians to create forts and ports along the coasts of present-day Virginia and North and South Carolina, the British also managed to increase their status as a world…

because they thought that sugar cane was more of a lucrative business than the fur trade in New France. Great Britain on the other hand wanted to destroy France so they sent approximately 20,000 troops across to America. New France held their own until 1757 when the war turned in favor of the British who won several wars. The battle on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 sealed the fate of New France. James Wolfe defeated the army of…

in America,He was sometimes known as the “Father of the americans navy” .Jones was born on the estate of Arbigland near kirkbean in the Stewatarty of Kirkbean on the southwest of Scotland. His dad was a gardener at Arbigland, His mother was named Jean McDuff she died at the age of 57,ANd John started his maritime at the age of 13.Paul's older brother William Paul had married and settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia, the destination of many of the younger Jones' voyages. His actions in British…

english had a clear plan to create a lasting future for generations to come. Although Spain made a lasting impression during the initial colonization of the New World, England was the most successful country when it came to settling in North America. Spain had many disadvantages in comparison with England. Its initial success was attributed to being the the first…

Life in America was difficult for early settlers coming for a new life. These settlers were looking for freedoms in this new land. They faced many hardships with trying to make the new land work, but they finally established a new life. Daily life in colonial America was really rough on the colonists and early settlers. They were very frightened as they lived in this new country, without any friends or relatives to help them face it. A few of the Native Americans helped them agree with the…

settlements first created in the New World; the first being Jamestown. It was founded on May 14, 1607, and there were 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company. These people founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. The second settlement was Plymouth; founded on September of 1620. It was composed of around 100 English men and women, many of them were members of the English separatist’s church. Two months later they landed on…

The Spanish, French, and British colonies were the three major European powers to settle in the New World. They “took lead in conquering and colonizing North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” (Tindall & Shi, 102). These three European powers so all the opportunities to advance in North America and they all succeed and failed in one way or another. When looking at reasons why they came to America, economic values (fur trading), setbacks of the region, and who was the major…

years of expansion, the United States grew into the country that we know today. Without the migration movements like the Separationist pilgrims' voyage to America, the founding of the original thirteen colonies, and the westward migration in the 1800s for gold, development, and prosperity, the country would not be the country it is today. The British colonization of the 1600s and the migration of the 1800s towards the west affected the course of American history and its development. Even…