New England Colonies

In the beginning , America “ New World “ has been just a group of British colonizers . It was populated by the Native Americans , and then came the Puritans to colonize it , followed by the first settlers : John Smith and William Bradford . In the late – seventeenth – century , The Enlightenment era , or “the age of reason “, was extended over Europe . Writers such as John Locke dares to defy the old system . Therefore , Locke’s thoughts and concepts inspire others like Thomas Jefferson , who…

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Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois Massachusetts was one of the original thirteen colonies. Illinois was a state gain in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The population in Boston increased over the years of 1800 to1860. Boston and Chicago saw a different market revolution then the South states. The North saw manufacturing cities then economy in farm. The old northwest saw a move to a settled society, with a web of new transportation and urban rural neighborhoods. The rural areas witnessed…

in hand. Rhode Island was a state founded on religious outcast. Rhode Island had an English sponsorship rather than charter. This meant that Rhode Island was not founded to promote a specific religious vision or economic gain unlike other British colonies established at the time. All four founders of Rhode Island were exiled from Massachusetts as a result of their radical beliefs. In 1644 the four towns of Rhode…

The Puritans arrived in New England to establish a settlement in 1620. By the late 1700s, New England was a part of America, a former colony across the Atlantic that recently acquired freedom from England. As the colony grew into Indian lands, so did the number of disputes with them, which contributed to the French and Indian War that ended salutary neglect and monitored mercantilism which encouraged Enlightenment ideas that strengthened the divide with Britain. Puritanism remained the same, but…

or avoid conflict in most of the decisions they made, nothing England did should have caused the colonists to rebel like they did. Many of the laws and acts passed by the English Parliament were completely in bounds of what they were allowed to do. Overall, England followed the rules while the colonists jumped the fence. In order to take control of the Ohio River Valley, an area that was important for trade and transportation, England had to fight France over the territory. This conflict became…

America and England had intertwined economies that supported each other with things such as land expansion, but separated due to their conflicting ideas on the American value of economic freedom of the taxation of the colonies. During the French and Indian War, England expanded American land by seizing French and Indian territory. A map of territorial change shows the difference in land owned before and after the French and Indian War and the Treaty of Paris. England claimed much more land past…

who saw prophet and prestige by organizing an English colony to compete with Spain Powerful Empire in the New World. • Although Manteo, from the village of Croaton, argued that their technology would make the English powerful allies, Wanchese described the disturbing inequalities of English society and warned of potential brutality. He was Raleigh used them as surfs • The English settlers of Roanoke became the thing known as the lost colony, the disappearance…

not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the puritans or did the puritans do something to the natives? The fighting eventually stopped, and that is what shaped our nations religious beliefs today. In the colonies Puritans believed that God had formed a unique…

the works of John Smith and Sarah Kemble Knight a new, self-centered side of American society surfaces. In “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles,” Smith describes the people he encounters on his trip coming to, and eventually settling in the New World. In “The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York,” Knight, less than one hundred years later, similarly describes her adventures through the American colonies, focusing extensively on the people she…