The Colony

the rule of the mother country. What the colonies didn't expect was Britains rule was also going to be imposed in the colonies. During the 1700’s Great Britain and the American colonies had developed a relationship that can be described as tumultuous. Similar to any argument or fight the colonists aggression started out slow and then slowly increased. Eventually their aggressiveness got to the point that made war eminent. Both the British and the colonies acquired many victories and losses.…

Religion was one of the main factors in the original 13 colonies society. It is because of religion that several colonies were founded. The colony of Massachusetts was the first to be established, and it was for religious purposes. The ones who came here were the Pilgrims in 1620. The main motive for them coming here was, since England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and turn toward to Church of England, the Pilgrims wanted nothing to do with it. As a result, they were persecuted for…

which the thirteen colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the Authority Great Britain had over them, and ultimately funded the United States of America. There are many factors that led to this outbreak. Three major factors would be the Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and correspondence between the colonies. The colonies decide to boycott British imports. The British are still trying to recover from the Seven Years’ War and they really needed the colonies to…

At the time of John Adams writing of the Novanglus Letter, much contempt had been stirred in the colonies regarding the lack of representation of the colonies in the British Parliamant. As Adams opens his letter, he addresses the fact that the colonies in the New World had been established before Great Britain, with the addition of Scotland, itself, without even the consideration of representation(Novanglus 79). Yet Scotland, when adopted, was given the right to representation immediately, as…

geographical disclosures movement which culminated in exploring Christopher Columbus unknown continent, that flowed wide waves of immigrants from Europe towards the new land, and the immigrants the British established colonies on the east coast of North America, which was founded first English colony in 1607 in Jamestown, Va.,…

The British began colonizing in the New World around 1607. when Jamestown was founded. The colonies were essential to the growth of the British economy and global power, and through the use of mercantilism and the Triangle Trade. Around the mid-1700’s, colonists realized how poorly Britain was treating them, so ideas of unification began to form and circulate. Although the Americans identified as British citizens at the beginning of their lives in the New World, many events leading up to the…

reasons: the colonist’s militia would not have stood a chance against the British army, the economy of the colonies was just fine, and a war could have been prevented. At the time, the colonists militia was meagre and notwithstanding. As we know, Great Britain was the most powerful country in the entire world at that time in terms of political, economic, and militaristic power. If the colonies were to remove themselves from an alliance with this kind of power, they would have no chance. The…

They had many differences, but they shared many large similarities; most colonists were quite religious, the colonies had economically stable middle classes, and all the colonists are British people living in the New World. Although they had their differences, their similarities are what allowed them to band together to really oppose the King and Parliament. If…

the thirteen original colonies and Great Britain. The thirteen original colonies were tired of being under the British crown and decided to revolt against Great Britain. The colonies wanted to be independent, while Great Britain wanted the colonies to stay loyal to the crown. This dispute then lead to a war that caused the thirteen British colonies to become the United States of America. Taxes that Britain tried to enforce on the colonies, is the main reason why the colonies wanted independence.…

In the year 1776’ the population within the American colonies were feeling disgruntled towards the British Empire and talks of breaking free from the empire’s control has spread through the colonies. Still, even with this discomfort floating around the colonies momentum to gain their independence was stuck in a pit of quiet talks. It wasn’t until Thomas Paine a radical writer ahead of his time wrote “Common Sense.” Which opened the doorway to the American Revolution as it brought that quiet…