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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Socioeconomic Factors In 1658 upon the death of Cromwell‚ the Englishmen were psychologically angered by the puritanical saint life they had been forced to live for a long period. They vowed never to be part of the tyrannical government that was based on monarchy‚ religious as well as a military dictatorship. It was during this period that the civil war affected the English colonies due to the use of the imperial control in the region. The Puritans managed to establish their territories within England
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period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious reasons. First‚ according to my textbook‚ the British originally sponsored trips over to the New World only after other countries were profiting from their collections of goods and new trade ports. Maybe other countries in Europe had begun settling the New World for religious concerns‚ but definitely not Britain. The British government was more concerned with staying up with other countries in Europe
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Between the late 1500s and mid-late 1600s‚ there was a huge boom in the interests of colonization in the Americas. The British‚ French‚ and Spanish had sought after these new found lands for many different reasons. The intentions of the British and Spanish were similar in that most of their colonists were interested in economic benefits such as agricultural colonies that would yield cash crops for business. There were other intentions of claiming strategic lands in the name of their homelands. However
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Eighteenth Century British Colonies In the eighteenth century‚ the British Colonies in North America experienced many changes that helped form the identity of America. The demographic‚ ethnic‚ and social characters of Britain’s colonies were some of the major characteristics to be altered in the 1700s. The demographic character of Colonial America resulted in a swing in the balance of power between the colonies and England. In the beginning of the 1700s‚ a population that was initially less than
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He was the founder of the first mission in California‚ and was famous for converting thousands of Native Americans to Christianity‚ teaching the Native Americans Spanish‚ and introducing them to settled agriculture and skilled crafts. Foner writes‚ “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
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During the colonial period North America was filled with individuals who did not agree with the religious and political ways of life in England. Before the 1700s the British North American colonies consisted mostly of Europeans in search of a place where they could find religious freedom. The first colony formed in Massachusetts in 1608 is an example of this idea of religious freedom. Plymouth‚ Massachusetts was a colony formed by English Separatists‚ who were also known as Puritans‚ in an attempt
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Two major developments in colonial America were slavery and public education. Slavery began in North America in roughly 1500’s and lasted until around 1865. Before establishment of chattel slavery (outright ownership of a person and descendants) most labor was organized as indentured servitude ( someone who worked for a set amount of time to pay for the trip to the new world) By the 18th century colonial caourts/legislatures racialized slavery creating a system of slavery exclusive to Africans
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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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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 in control of their
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