* The three geographic regions of the 13 Colonies were the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.…
I chose “Settling New England” as my topic. The website I had chosen has many intriguing facts. While reading it, it just made me want to read more and more. It also had very descriptive pictures that one could visualize what it was like back in the day will reading. This site is related to chapter 2 out of the book that we read because it talks about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony, Thanksgiving, Puritan life, and how New England expanded.…
1688 england focuses more on france then colonies, france= competing with England for control on Europe…
A small group of Separatists, or Pilgrims, first went to Holland and then settled the “Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans, the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World.…
The original thirteen colonies of the United States were settled along the east coast of North America. For many years, few colonists went beyond the Appalachian Mountains. However, as the country gained independence and continued to grow, more land was needed. The country began to expand into the western frontier with slavery, daily life on the frontier, Louisiana purchase, California gold rush, etc .…
Between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself. Changes in religion, economics, politics, and social structures illustrate this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans.…
The thirteen colonies in the United States are, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Each one of them has their own story characteristics that I’ll be listing them in the following paragraphs.…
The New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies are all different in many ways. They have many differences that differentiate those of the other colonies.…
3. Slave revolt erupted in NYC – 1712 → caused lives of dozens of whites and…
I chose the New York colony. Some history about the New York Colony is that it was part of the four other middle colonies including the Pennsylvania Colony, the New Jersey Colony, and the Delaware Colony. The New York Colony was originally a dutch colony called New Amsterdam, founded by Peter Minuit. The New York Colony was founded in 1664. The New York Colony was originally called the Province of New York and then later called New York. The New York Colony eventually gained the nickname of Empire State.…
The Thirteen Colonies of America were all founded by England in the 17th century. However, the origins, beliefs, economies and governments of these colonies are as varied and diverse as America itself. The Northern Colonies of New England and the Southern Colonies were the most prolific of the New World and were very different in most cases.…
-Religion: Presbyterians were well represented, they also had a Congregational Church. When it comes to religious toleration, Massachusetts was the least tolerant but Rhode Island was one of the most liberal.…
13 Original Colonies. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. Out of these 13, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania stood out to me the most. Even though these three colonies have differences based on how they started, who governed them, and how they were governed, they still have many similarities.…
The four British colonies in North America can be known as the New England colonies, the Chesapeake colonies, the Middle colonies and The Carolinas. All four of these colonies have various similarities and differences that characterized and influenced the settlement, including religious beliefs, laws, government corruption, economics, disease, and population. The New England colonies consisted of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake colonies consisted of Maryland and Virginia. The Middle colonies consisted of Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey. The Carolinas colonies consisted of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. As these colonies began to settle and expand, their religious beliefs, values, diversity, and awareness of government corruption began to grow. Nevertheless, the colonists discovered new opportunities in every aspect of life. A couple primary similarities with these colonies came from religious tensions, values, and diversity for instance in New England the tensions came…
In 1673, he made a trip along the Mississippi River with Jacques Marquette. Using the guidance of the Native Americans, they ended up at the Gulf of Mexico.…