Protections: The English Colonies In North America

The English colonies in North America were actually settled by immigrants from many

different European countries which resulted in a very cosmopolitan and multicultural society rich

in diversities of language and religion. Because of this nascent colonial diversity the United

States of America emerged as a new type of nation, one that guaranteed in written

constitutional form the rights of minorities against the possible tyranny of the majority. However,

while the nation could use “E Pluribus Unum” as the national motto, these basic constitutional

protections were not fully applied to two large and significant groups, the Native American

Indians and Africans.

Since the first colonial settlements of Jamestown, Virginia