The Colony

The English colonies had a hard time while trying to establish British America. They ran into challenges like lacking food and supplies, a language barrier that limited communication, and diseases that killed. The southern colonies and the New England colonies were settled for different reasons and they developed very differently. The success rate for the colonies was very dependent on natural resources and meeting basic needs of their people. The British Came over to the Americas expecting it…

In Dr Deborah Gordon tech talk, “How Ant Colonies Get Things Done” she presents her findings from studying a collection of ant colonies in New Mexico for the past 25 years. More specifically, she focus on the Red Carpenter ant species. While colonies of ants may look at first glance like simply a bunch of ants running around aimlessly, a closer and more careful look shows substantial social organization. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest…

By the 1700s, the New England and the Chesapeake regions developed into two different colonies due to each colony’s reason for settlement, consisting of religious and economic reasons, their personal beliefs, and their growth in their society. While the settlers of New England immigrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution, the settlers of the Chesapeake region immigrated for more economic reasons—the search of gold. Each colony’s way of life contrasted from one another in the way…

conflicts it brought to British colonies in North America. Before the war and after the war many things were inflicted, influenced and changed. Although loyalists in North American colonies remained “loyal to the crown”, and North America remained dependant on British rule before and after the seven years war, more change took place. Salutary neglect and minimal control is how Britain ruled over colonies before the seven years war, but after they held their colonies with a tighter fist. Not only…

The last ten months have brought great unrest to my colony. For a long time, we have had conflicts with the natives. They have grown dependent on some of our resources, mainly our weapons. Some have even become indebted to the english men that provide them. The older folk in town say that since the first settlement, around 50,000 native american have been kidnapped and enslaved.(u-s-history) I guess this natives, the Yamasees, would not take it any longer. Smart natives, they knew they couldn't…

differences of the colonies are examined in numerous ways. Different cultures, societies, and leaders all influenced them in different ways. The colonies of Virginia and Carolina, while founded during similar times, have numerous differences such as the purpose of the colonies and the leadership. The Carolina colony was founded by the French sometimes between 1563 and 1564. The colony was named after the King of France at the time, King Charles the Ninth. Eventually, England overtook the colony…

land and colonies were translated into a country's success. However, with the advent of mercantilism—the economic theory that trade engenders wealth and is stimulated by the accretion of productive balances, which a government should encourage—, England started imposing its mercantilist policies upon the thirteen colonies. This was done by the imposition of various acts and policies. However, these policies were not received well and had generally negative consequences, in each of the colonies’…

war, the colonies had almost no sense of community with other colonies and a very explanatory mutual distrust. But now they saw they could be united against their enemy Great Britain. The Revolutionary War eventually resulted from the constant disagreements between the British and the American colonies. Overtaxed goods brought more money to Great Britain to make the mother country wealthy and not necessarily for the welfare of the colonies. While Britain limited the trading of the colonies…

missing out on the main points of their freedom and political liberty. For the colonies to have freedom and political liberty, the colonies should have had the rights to exercise their rights, which was not giving to them. The American Revolution was about Freedom and Political Liberty. The colonies wanted to have the same rights as the English man, but the government did not see it this way. The government felt that the colonies were theirs to do as they wanted with them. A series of events…

The atmosphere in the colonies before the stamp act had been slowly declining. The colonists were becoming frustrated with the policies that Britain was implementing, in terms of relations with the Native Americans, British expansion, and colony taxation. The Stamp Act was last straw for many colonists. After the passing of the Stamp Act, many colonists could no longer sit idly by, and had to do something. Although he Stamp Act was not the turning point, it created the conditions necessary for…