New England Colonies

Colonial Readiness Report Your Royal Highness, our New England Colonies are facing a threat from our enemy, the French. The mountains and harsh climate may prevent us from readiness for the attack. But, the hilly land will be a difficult obstacle for our attackers, the French. Our accessibility by water could play a major role in the fight because we could obtain supplies for the battle. Our thick forests will help for protection and cover from our enemies. An advantage we have is our very…

Chesapeake vs. New England In the late 16th century, America was rapidly becoming colonized by the European nations. In fact, two of the major colonies in America both came from England under very different circumstances. These colonies are the Chesapeake, consisting of current day Virginia and Maryland, and New England, consisting of current day Massachusetts and Connecticut. Although these colonies both came from England, they significantly grew independent of each other. Also, both colonies…

Settlers John Smith and William Bradford were two settlers from england who wrote about their journey to the “new world”. Both of their writing were for different purposes you would think it’s all for other people's benefits which is somewhat true. Both of them coming to America was a whole new different experience, like us visiting an unknown planet. On their adventures there were many problems they faced and that came their way. John Smith, he became an important force in the later…

He became the minister of a Boston parish in 1803. Cultured, eloquent, and a persuasive writer, he became famed throughout New England for his oratorical gifts and as a theologian. In seriousness of purpose and in purity of character, Channing represented the strength and virtue of the old Puritan stock. His portrait, presenting him in the conventional black gown of the clergyman with the white bands at the neck, shows a face highly intellectual and refined, with features delicate, spiritual,…

Governor William Bradford was an influential man who wrote about his journey from England to the New World as well as his preparations of a colony for success. Bradford immigrated with the Pilgrims to New England in search of religious refuge from the Anglican church (“Pilgrims” Pilgrims). The Pilgrims believed that the church had not made enough reforms. Because the king became head of the church and the church and the state became a one, a corrupt order was created and did not follow Biblical…

1600s, many English peasants were evicted, in favor of sheep cultivation, due to increasing demand for wool. Many peasants left England searching for new pastures. During the 1630s, the excessively powerful King Charles I of England’s unsatisfied men revolted under Oliver Cromwell. Over time, many of these revolutionaries settled in Jamestown, Virginia. Germans fled to the New World to escape the oppressive rule of…

Smith in the General History of Virginia, and William Bradford in Of Plymouth Plantation. Captain John Smith was a British soldier, he’s a founder of the American colony of Jamestown. He traveled in purpose to seek what he wanted, and that is to become wealthy. While William Bradford is an English separatist, the leader of the Plymouth colony. They are known as the Pilgrims, but before that they were originally known as the Old Comers and their purpose for settling in America is to have…

designed to contribute to the existing historical scholarship. In this regard, I am quite annoyed with William Cronon, who wrote Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England during his time as a master’s student at Yale University. The book not only contributed to the history of colonial New England by casting the environment as…

The Northeast consisted of both the New England states and the middle states. Most people who lived in the Northeast lived on small farms in the early 1800’s, but more and more people in that section began to look for other ways to make a living. Some in the Northeast looked to the sea for their living. Since colonial times, fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding had been important occupations. But changes in technology in the early 1800’s began to offer the people of the Northeast even more…

In the “Scarlet Letter” novel, the plot takes place in an early New England colony, mid-17th century at Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the best called name for the Puritan community of Boston in which is also part of the setting. The author Nathaniel Hawthorne mentions many settings in the novel, including the wilderness, custom-house, prison door and the town scaffold. The town scaffold is the place that sets off the novel’s beginning, middle, and end. It’s also…