colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following in the period between 1763 and 1775…
36. How did the Protestant Reformation of the early 16th century affect the migration pattern of the English Colonies in the seventeenth century?…
After Queen Elizabeth I passed away, James Stuart took over as ruler, which led the New England society to be based on “religious and economic forces.” (Jones, Wood, Borstelmann, May, Ruiz 35). The New England colonies were founded in search of seeking religious freedom from the Anglican Church, leading to Puritanism. Jones, Borstelmann, May, and Ruiz argued from the textbook that the Anglican Church shouldn’t be secured to a monarchy, but should be self-governing based on certain religious beliefs. (40). New England’s economy was also suffering around this time. “New England faced peculiar disadvantages, beginning with the soil…New Englanders found no staple crop that could be sold back directly to Britain to create a balance of trade.” (Jones, Borstelmann, May, Ruiz 117). The economic downfall that New England was facing led them to go out to sea to alleviate the economy.…
Since the early 17th century, the English migrated to America for a variety of reasons. The promise of treasure, religious tolerance, and plentiful lands, lured gold-seekers, Puritans, Protestants, unemployed farmers, indentured servants, and younger sons (who had fallen victim to laws of primogeniture), to the land mistakenly named the Indies. English migration to the Chesapeake region spread over nearly a century, whereas voyagers to New England arrived within a single decade. One would think that since the English settled both of these regions, both of their societies would develop quite similarly, but one could not be more wrong. The variations of the societies that developed in the Chesapeake region and the New England region occurred because the settlers had different motivations pertaining to their journeys, contrasting family ties, and diverse geological situations.…
One of the main reasons for many different races of people coming to America was opportunity. Many came for religious freedom like many from England. Many came for the opportunity to make a better life for their family but also for their future generations to come.…
Religion played a crucial role in this specific relationship. Puritans, the followers of John Calvin, wished to purify the corrupt church. Because of their specific beliefs and doings, they were quite popular with entrepreneurs and merchants - those responsible for the commercial growth in England. By the seventeenth century, the Puritans controlled many English congregations. When King James I came to power, everything changed. No longer was England a religiously tolerant country when persecution of the Puritans began. The turmoil caused actually paved the way for so many immigrants to come and colonize in America, thus forming the Pilgrim colony.…
Around the 1600’s, New England started to develop a drastic population growth. This growth caused several problems for the occupants including, high prices on food, land, and a shortage of work for many because of the aggressive competition. Immigrants from New England began to prepare for a voyage that would be beneficial for some travelling to Massachusetts and not so much those who were travelling to Virginia. Although the settlers from the Chesapeake Bay and New England came from the same country, these colonies established different societies because of varying elements such as religious freedoms, economy, government’s role in society and unity.…
There were many changes that caused long distance migrations to America, but the main cause was the increase of laborers needed. Most of the settlers from England to the New World (America) came as indentured servants since there was a large demand for workers needed in the colonies in order to build settlements, farms, and serve as tradesmen. So peasants in England were brought over by rich Americans and served as servants, but in the mid 1800's it declined sharply as it became outlawed. Such as America and Europe’s increase in labor for plantations or cheap labor brought African laborers through a harsh mean of transportation we call the Middle Passage. However, in the 19th century slavery was also outlawed in America (it was outlawed earlier in European countries). So since it was illegal to bring African slaves, those long distance migrations declined…
Though the Northern & Southern colonies were close to each other, they held many similarities and differences. America was a place of dreams until immigrants began sailing to its’ shores. An influx of immigrants came to America in the 17th century were English, but there were also Dutch, Swedes and Germans in the middle region, a few French Huguenots in South Carolina and elsewhere, slaves from Africa, mainly in the South, and a scattering of Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese all through the colonies. They had sailed and sought after religious freedom, economic growth and better government.…
During the late fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Great Britain underwent massive changes throughout the entire realm. From the new system of deposing kings to religious upheavals, England during this time had a hard time finding peace. During those two hundred years, personal ambition of kings and nobles was the most disruptive to English society, which was exacerbated by the religious break instituted by Henry VIII in 1534.…
In the 1600s, immigration began. Throughout the 1600 and 1700s, the population in colonial America increased rapidly. This was caused by a variety of reasons: enslavement, economy, exportation, religious purification, and freedom from the English government.…
From the first settlement founded in the 1600’s, the British colonies were a varied mix of communities that grew to distinct civilizations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Queen Elizabeth helped drive the colonization of Jamestown in 1607 and ultimately the creation of other Southern colonies to help Britain's economy flourish. In contrast, James I, Elizabeth’s successor, spurred the settlement of the Northern colonies for religious reasons when he “vowed to purge England of all radical Protestant reformers” (Davidson, et al 85). When the Pilgrims sailed the Mayflower in 1620, an error in navigation led them far north to New England, rather than the South. A second wave of Puritans led to the formation of the Massachusetts Bay colony and the growth of other Northern colonies. While the early settlers were all looking for new experiences, different types of people populated the Northern and Southern colonies. Although the two regions in the 17th and 18th centuries may appear to be similar on the surface, there are many obvious differences in economy, treatment of Natives, and stability, stemming from the reasons they were founded in the first place.…
During the 17th and 18th centuries, settlement expansion skyrocketed among British colonies with varied immigration pattern creating quite the contrast between the middle and southern colonies. Thousands of Europeans begin flooding the New World for religious freedom, in search of wealth, or for their own personal exploit. Many came to the Middle Colonies for liberation from persecution and for business ventures that would not be possible with primogeniture prominent in much of Europe; meanwhile, those who resettled in the Southern Colonies were there for more commercial success or to flee from the consequences of debt, like the people who lived in Georgia. Numerous cultural differences contributed from immigrants shaped the economy, government, and overall character of each colony.…
In order to colonize the Americas the British had to cultivate the land. They came into a rather barren space and they had to set up their own settlements. They left a hard life behind only to find a much harder life but at least this life had the possibility of a better life was with in reach. Life was hard for the original settlers in America. The land was harsh and many settlers found themselves ill prepared for the journey at hand. Unbelievable the Colony continued to grow. It can be argued that it wasn’t as much the population growing because of internal repopulating but instead from more settlers traveling and setting up residence in the colony. The reasons why citizens continued to flee to North America could be the saw the money being made for tobacco sales, the promise of free land, or religious freedom.…
People had wanted out of England. There were economic, political and social reasons why people wanted to leave. The economic reason was, many people were out of work so they had less money, the social reason was people were fighting over religion a lot, which would cause social disputes, and the political reason was monarchs were being truly horrible. The above would certainly make one want to leave England! The conditions were unlivable.…