Middle Colonies

the journey to settle in America. Some of these groups did so for religious reasons. Colonists of the Plymouth Colony, for example, were Puritans who feared persecution from the Church of England. The colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, established by the Puritan leader John Winthrop, set out to establish a church that all other churches would use as a model. Ironically, many colonies that were established for religious freedom were themselves exceedingly strict and intolerant of other…

Colonial Report (Virginia) The Colony of Virginia The colony of Virginia was the first to be established of the original 13 colonies. The colony was founded by Join Smith in 1607, Virginia was considered to be one of the Southern Colonies. The colony of Virginia got its name from Queen Elizabeth I of England who was considered to be the “Virgin Queen.” The major cities/towns of Virginia are Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond. The Southern Colonies were considered to be the warmest of the…

the Cheseapeke colony was based on plantations. Not only did the colonies in the north not have as good of farming because of the infertile land, the New England colony also had shorter summers and colder temperatures. Even though the New England colonies did not have large plantations to grow crops on, each familie wanted more land (which there was plenty of) so the colony started to spread out and everyone was granted their own share of planting land (Doc. D). The New England colonies had many…

In the southern colonies, tobacco, rice, indigo, lumber, and trade were important parts of income and the economy. Colonies in the south like Virginia would bring in hundreds of slaves to work on plantations. Farming, lumber, fur trade, and shipbuilding were the main products of the middle colonies. Slaves were still used in the middle colonies just not as many compared to the south. The Northern colonies used mostly indentured slaves rather than regular slaves…

neighbors, and their land. The Spanish, French, Dutch and the English all had different experiences with these three things and their reaction to them decided whether or not the settlement would succeed. Looking at the English colonies: New England, Chesapeake, the Middle Colonies, South Carolina and the Indies, we can see the same three things apply. The Spanish sent over Conquistadors to the New World and their job was to capture the Indians and place them into hard labor so that they…

1607-1660 played a major role in American history as it highlights English colonization, its main contours, Chesapeake’s overcome, the development of Virginia and Maryland, and lastly the English civil war effect on the colonies in America. It had started on April 26th 1607 where three ships entered the shore from England now as Cape Henry. They later inclined to settle sixty miles inland on the James River protecting themselves from Spaniard war ships at the time of stay where Jamestown was…

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enslaved] Persons.” In 1770, the population of the colonies was around 2 million (Roark et al., p. 138), but the slave percentages of the populations of each region—New England, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies—varied considerably. In New England, slaves were 3% of the total population of roughly 500, 000 (Roark et al., p. 142); in the Middle colonies, they were around 7% of the total population of roughly 430,000; but in the Southern colonies, slaves constituted 40% of the total…

life. Regardless of this, both of these colonies have contributed countless ways to the economical, societal, and political aspects of subsequent settlements and colonies to come. The extent religion played in Spanish settlements was significant, as it was one of the key parts of their lives. The Catholic Church is stated to be “...the primary agent for the introduction and transmission of Catholic belief as well as European language and culture” (Colonies in North and South America, 495).…

Britain’s continued fiscal measures chipped away at colonial sentiments. The French parliament’s political power undermined Louis XVI legitimacy. France’s imprisonment of Spain’s Ferdinand VII left the Spanish colonies ungoverned in their eyes, and when he returned to power, Ferdinand’s inflexibility caused resentments. Klooster argued four reasons that revolutionary agendas succeeded: A) State policies became increasing unpopular, B) the groups that were not…