Middle Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British Colonies on the east coast of North America. It was founded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States. The English were the ones who founded the first permanent settlement in America in 1607. Colonization of North America began in 1607, it began in Jamestown, Virginia. This colony was named after King James I, who was the English king. Many of the colonists who settled in the New…

A Massachusetts bill’s value was equal to that of Rhode Island, or Connecticut and vice versa. Hence the money supply was an aggregate of four colonies, and for one colony to control the money supply was nearly impossible. This was not the case in the middle colonies, and when Pennsylvania first issued their fiat money in 1723 a remarkably stable currency prevailed all the way up until the currency act of…

Murrin’s ‘Roof without Wall’ is significant to understand history, because Murrin provides a different context to view the American Revolution period. Murrin argues that the British North American colonies were diverse on a spectrum north to south, from Canada to Caribbean Islands, but also had common connections and actually Anglicized over the 17th century to 18th century. America was Britain’s creation, which only became American when pushed to act by British tyranny. Once British authority…

Crane Brinton’s model begins by describing that a revolution is normally begun by the middle class. In the case of the American Revolution, the cause of the middle class wanting to revolt started with the colonial leaders and the end of the French and Indian War and the reorganization of the Empire. From there came what was known as the Sugar Act, which was an act put in place…

They had many differences, but they shared many large similarities; most colonists were quite religious, the colonies had economically stable middle classes, and all the colonists are British people living in the New World. Although they had their differences, their similarities are what allowed them to band together to really oppose the King and Parliament. If they were completely…

changed the geopolitical state of the world. The world would not be rocked the same until the Napoleonic wars several decades later. Many of the colonists views towards their home country changed such as its role in governing, protecting and taxing the colonies however many policies stayed the same such as colonial assemblies and their treatment of native americans. The war caused many changes in Great Britain. The British were stuck with a fiscal crisis due to the large cost of funding a war on…

enforced upon middle and lower class people. Both also wanted to make their own Republic that spread new values of liberty and social equality. A mayor differences between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was that the French started out with violence while the American Revolution began with not wanting bloodshed and violence. Also the American Revolution is clearly seen as a success while many can argue that the French Revolution was a failure. The thirteen British…

In 1778, the American Revolutionary War was raging in the British Colonies. At this point of the war, the British had failed to accomplish their goal of quickly ending the rebellion and were trying to find a strategy that would defeat the rebel forces. Military historian John Shy describes this period in which the British strategy was changed by breaking up the war into three stages in his “The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War” chapter of his book A People Numerous and Armed.…

America as a major religious movement. The colonists felt that as the colonies matured they began to lose their religion, which spurred the movement. The American colonies were in disarray with neither the Southern, Middle, nor Northern colonies having much of their culture in common. The Puritan faith dominated much of the New England colonies, the Church of England had much authority over the South, and the Middle colonies were overrun with a variety of congregations such as Quakers and…

cope with the disturbance of not having a stable government to control and rely on that came with Salutary Neglect from Britain, the colonies then had to deal with the new laws and the taxes that were eventually put in place starting in the mid eighteenth century that restricted much of what they had free control over beforehand. Starting in the 1750s, the colonies were located along the coast (Doc 7) of the United States. Because of their location, it enabled them to gain power, and eventually…