Middle Colonies

to a previous way of life and mode of governance, instead of trying to progress forwards. It was a restoration, rather than the revolution. Unlike in many other revolutions, the leaders of the Revolution, rather than being members of the lower or middle classes were privileged, wealthy (white) men, such as George Washington; they had benefitted from the previous state of affairs, and they wouldn’t relent on that. The revolutionaries were disappointed that they were not as British as they thought…

Significance: Many English aristocrats were able to experience this lifestyle through their success. Salutary Neglect: The act of neglecting the supervision of one’s colony and letting local colonial government institutions seize power. Significance: This concept was theorized by a man named Edmund Burke and influenced colonial society. Patronage: In terms of administration, patronage is the act of patronizing another…

traded across the Atlantic for goods imported from Europe, such as textiles, rum and guns. It took months for ships to reach the colonies- months of starving and being piled on top of one another. Slaves came to the colonies with no rights. Laws later set against slaves, protecting their owners were considered slave codes. It was not illegal to have slaves in the colonies nor was it illegal to beat, kill or rape them. Children of enslaved women were born into slavery, became lifelong slaves and…

Republic - the United States Indirect Discoverers of The New World (Pg. 2) Although the Scandinavians landed in North America, it wasn 't until the Europeans landed there, by accident, that the New World started to come into being. The Crusades in the Middle East, introduced the exotic luxuries available from Asia, but were way too expensive to transport the enormous distances from China to Europe. It was in search of…

The thirteen colonies that became the United States had long been governed by the British Empire, however in the late 1700’s the citizens of these colonies had gotten past fed up with British rule, and the first seeds of the American Revolution grew. People of color as well as women longed for access to equal rights and suffrage in democracy. Although white men were already treated with this sense of social equality, they were displeased with the taxation without representation and inability to…

There is another person who affected and shaped Philadelphia in 18the century, whose name is Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of the United States. If say William Penn determined the childhood of Philadelphia, then Benjamin Franklin is the one who witnesses the teenagerhood of Philadelphia, and saw it grew up to an attractive city. When Benjamin moved to Philadelphia from Boston in 1723, Philadelphia has already been a growing city but without many public services. He found the first…

the Northern shores, the population was estimated to be much more but many people had died because of the European diseases which spread all over the content. The 13 British colonies were adapting to the Native American’s life, which was representing their diverse and varied human structures and culture. As the British colonies were inserting themselves in the American Culture, there was an adaption between a dynamic European changing and a dynamic North American changing and histories came…

there. “The Chesapeake area, where the tobacco-producing colonies of Virginia for cheap labor, receive about 120,000 settlers, most of whom landed before 1660. New England attracted 21,000 emigrants, nearly all of them arriving before 1640. In the second part of the seventeenth century, the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) attracted about 23,000 settlers. Although the arrivals to New England and the Middle Colonies…

Loyalists, foiling the British goal and strategy of invading and obtaining aid from the southern colonies. Around the same time, the Americans employed another tactic: invading Canada in effort to gain their support by forcing the British troops out of Canada. The invasion of Canada was unsuccessful, and a new phase of the war began (Brinkley…

Greek Colonization Settlements or trading outposts were the two types of colonies traditionally founded by the city-states of the Ancient Greeks (Stein, 2005:12). Trade was the primary reason for the Greek colonial expansion into Illyria. Illyrian exports included wool, slaves, bitumen, metal ores, hides, stock, mercenaries, timber, and cereal grains. Imports from the Greeks consisted of ornaments for clothing, wine, olive oil, weapons, armour, vessels, and utensils (Hammond, 1992; Wilkes,…