Effects Of Eq On Colonial America

EQ – 1 The five Indian tribes that lived in the New York State area, before English colonists arrived, merged together into the Iroquois Confederacy around 1450 in an effort to get rid of fighting between tribes and to create a larger and more peaceful Indian nation. Furthermore, the tribes intended to create a form of representative democracy to ensure all of the tribes that joined were happy with the changes that would have to be made to keep the peace among the groups.¬ In an effort to achieve all of this, the confederacy drafted a constitution that detailed the various roles of the government, election processes, laws, rights, and a few standard religious practices. This document was very successful through The Beaver Wars as well as
It was the location of Stono’s rebellion in which nearly 100 slaves were involved. This rebellion was what caused the South Carolina lawmakers to severely limit the rights of slaves. Mostly the northern colonies could be called the least successful at creating strong slave communities, considering the fact that there are so few a community couldn’t be effectively created in the first place. There just wasn’t a need in the north, the south needed the amount that could cause a rebellion because their entire economy revolves around the giant plantations they own. However, the north only has its small farms and industries to run. Not to mention slaves generally don’t survive harsh winters in the conditions they are forced to live
The British had their country to fund and manage, and the king’s only reason to send them over in the first place is to pay for that and make more money on top of it. Initially a philosophy of salutary neglect was a standard practice of the British government, however when the British wanted to cripple the Dutch economy, the passed the Navigation Acts, which essentially banned the trade of goods between colonies and countries other than Britain. The British government also passed the Sugar Act to tax the colonists even more. The response was not so welcoming. The colonists immediately began to protest this seemingly immediate demand for control over the east coast economic practices. The colonists also began to smuggle trade to the Dutch and a few other European nations. Although it was not welcomed, this beginning of taxes pushed the 13 colonies to strive for growth, by creating new ways to grow the food, finding cheaper ways to harvest and manage it, and much more. This created one of the most robust economies that our world has seen at this time.
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