New England

War broke out in 1642. The civil war that took place in 1642 and was a turning point in British history; it was an outbreak of war between two huge powers which was the Parliament and the Monarch. The civil war that occurred from 1642 to 1649 in England was unique in that it pitted a monarch and his representative assembly against one another for the first time ever. Even more groundbreaking, the English Civil War culminated in the first ever trial and execution of a sitting monarch. It was…

Even though English settlers traveled across the Atlantic to the Chesapeake Bay area, the West Indies, and the area that became New England all around the same time, they formed very different kinds of society. This makes it obvious that the determining factor in the way colonial societies grow is dependent on more than just the lifestyle its settlers had in their homeland. In addition to the reasons for settlement in each area, one might also explore the obstacle settlers faced in…

The Puritans fled religious tyranny in the Old world and found religious redemption in the New World. They faced numerous challenges even death in order gain religious freedom. The point of the reformation was to make Christianity right, to bring it back to its pure origins. Their name is derived from them wanting to purify the church. The Puritans have been persecuted for accusing their King of failing to cleanse the Church of Catholic rituals, and were hounded as radicals for their forbear of…

Although the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled by basically English, each region was clearly different than the other. This could have happened for many reasons, but difference in how the families were structured and the effect of religion on each region were probably two very big influences on the different developments of the societies. In New England, people who immigrated there came mostly in the form of families. In 1635, "Ship's List of Emigrants bound for New England,"…

economic differences. The northern colonies, which are known as the England colonies, wanted economic equality. They relied on a lot of trading. The Northern colonies had family-operated farms and business economy was dependent upon small farmers and merchants. Families provided most labor on their farms and in their businesses; they would sell any surplus in the market. The Northern colonies soil was good for livestock. These New England colonies also had small commercial ventures, lumber,…

Change(s) in the Land William Cronon’s change in the land: the book is about Indian colonists and the ecology of New England, the book discusses the history of the economy and ecology of colonial of New England and how it affected the future of the region. In Cronon’s thesis he calms, ‘ the shift from the Indian to European dominance in new England entailed important changes well known to the historians in the ways these people organized their lives, but it also involved fundamental…

proprietary colonies later became royal colonies after being accrued by the monarch or royal rule. Because of the colony’s tie to a sovereign nation, more immigrants moved to royal colonies, such as in the case of New York when eleven thousand immigrants from France, Britain, and New England joined the measly nine thousand original colonists. These royal colonies were able to gain the support and aid of the crown and all of its resources. Proprietary colony: A proprietary colony is a colony…

17th century two region were settled by people of English origin. These two regions were known as the Chesapeake and the New England colonies. Even though the two areas were governed by the English, the colonies had similarities as well as differences. The New England colonies were formed by people seeking religious freedom while those of the Chesapeake colonies traveled to the New World to seek wealth and economic profit. Socially, in the early part of the Chesapeake colonization the men and…

The Three Colonial Regions The three colonial regions, also known as The Thirteen Colonies, are New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. As the three colonies, they were created by people who wanted to be a free religion; restarting life, making their own religions, or finding gold. The first of the colonies were as early as the 1607 and as late as the start and middle 1700s. As they were alike, the colonies had different ways in laws, economy, and religious beliefs. As the first start of…

Anne Hutchinson- she disagreed with most ministers in New England that thought that good deeds were how to reach salvation. her idea was that one has to ignore the fake prophets of someone’s behavior to see the inside of them and to find salvation. with only two from all the colonies ministers being saved, she influenced people to question the qualifications of them. these followers were called Antinomians, taking up half of people in Massachusetts Bay. her and all her followers were…