Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia
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Evaluate the extent to which geography was the primary factor in shaping the development of the British colonies in North America during the 1600s. Although the primary factor in shaping the development of the British colonies was geography‚ religion also influenced the British colonies during the 1600s.The New England colonies were initially founded to be a safe haven for the Puritan religion‚ while the middle colonies and southern colonies were founded for trade and profit. Once founded‚ the British colonies be
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AP US History English Colonies in North America Before the seventeenth century‚ countries such as Portugal and Spain had controlled the rich lands of the Americas‚ and England was left out of the race due to religious conflict back home. However‚ when Queen Elizabeth came into power‚ England’s power also rose in the colonial game in the America. Some of the first colonies they gathered are the ones of Virginia and Carolina. They also acquired the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Rhode Island
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The French and British constantly came into conflict as they began to establish global empires in the 1600s and 1700s. This was not the beginning of the two nations’ feud with each other. Not only was it not the beginning‚ but it was not the only thing the French and British fought over. The French and the British have had over hundreds of battles with each other. These deadly battles ranging from the year 1066 to the year 1815 and it is what the French and British are well known for. The disputes
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New World In their struggle to colonize the New World‚ colonial masters aimed to control North America. Those who came to the nee world as settlers had different reasons for doing so. However‚ their governments focused on controlling the social‚ economic‚ and political activities of the continent. Unlike other colonists‚ English colonists created settlements in the new world and assimilated the natives into the English culture instead of learning their culture; additionally‚ they suppressed inferior
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country. The Founding Fathers’ were influenced by the Romans‚ the English and many others along the way‚ hoping that they would be more successful at producing liberty‚ order‚ and justice. The result is the long standing Constitution that has guided America and the government through the founding to present day. Greco-Roman Tradition. The Roman constitution lacked a lot of the qualities that the Framers’ of the constitution we looking for. Roman’s political centralization seemed to put the classes
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“Today‚ he is being considered by the Catholic Church for elevation to sainthood. But forced labor and disease took a heavy toll among native americans who lived at the missions Serra directed.” (Foner 165) How did the ideas of republicanism and liberalism differ in 18th century British North America? Republicanism emphasized an active participation in public life by economically independent citizens. Republicans held that only those with property were virtuous-the willingness to subordinate personal
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The British enlightenment was one of the most important enlightenments that paved the foundation of the modern world we live in today. Often overlooked‚ the British enlightenment set the stage for others and brought new ideas to a new age that were revolutionary to say the least. Some of these reasons as to why the British enlightenment paved the way for the modern world are the fact that British enlightenment thinkers brought in new ideas that changed the way we view the world and how it affects
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Parliament virtually represented the British colonies in America from across the mid-Atlantic ocean. In 1760 George III became king of England at the young age of twenty-two and elected George Grenville to be his prime minister. The circumstances of the Seven Years War resulted in a large debt that needed to be taken care of. American colonies were scarcely affected by the wake of the war; they did not send men or supplies to aid the British in victory against France. To the American’s‚ Britain was
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Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass has greatly influenced America through his books about his life during slavery. Frederick Douglass shows how education is important for us so that we know what is going on in the world and have a better understanding of it. Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Talbot County‚ Maryland. His exact date of birth is unknown. His mother‚ a slave named Harriet Bailey‚ named him Frederick Augustus Washington
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