Do you know how and for what reasons the first 13 colonies of North America were found? Many of us today don’t know why these colonies were established‚ but we should because it’s an extremely important event in history. Many of the first settlers in the North America came from England‚ they came for reasons such as these: wanted land to plant on‚ religious freedom‚ wanted to become rich or famous‚ needed a new beginning‚ wanted to escape paying debts and others. The first successful settlement was
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the 1600’s and 1700’s‚ the American colonies grew larger and larger‚ becoming more than just small settlements‚ into large self sufficient territories. Originally the colonies were supposed to be settlements to find gold and raw materials‚ but they eventually became the beginnings of the colonies that would start the United States. As they developed most colonies relied on agriculture and certain crops and trading to have an economical balance. For example‚ colonies like Virginia‚ Maryland‚ Georgia
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the early colonies of America. You might be surprised to read that Africans‚ not Indians‚ were the first American slaves. By 1617‚ one hundred and twenty five years after Columbus and his European men arrived in North America; Virginian had become an established colony and they were in trouble. They had lost hundreds’ as a result of starvation and had become desperate for both food and labor. This‚ you could say was the “historical force” behind slavery in the colonies. Virginia
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American Colonies When the history back to in 1607‚ English settlers established Jamestown as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Tobacco became the chief crop of the colony‚ due to the efforts of John Rolfe in 1611. Once it became clear that tobacco was going to drive the Jamestown colony‚ more labor was needed. The British settlers needed to find a labor force to work on its plantations in the Americas. At first‚ the major possibilities were indentured servants from Britain‚
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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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4-Mrs.Campara Research Question: How did the African Slave Trade help colonial and European Colonies? In the early 18th century around 36‚00 slaves grew threw North and South America‚and Europe.”The Spanish were the first major European Partners in the slave trade‚ buying slaves to labor in Spain’s South American empire”(World History textbook pg 487). This textual evidence provides how many European countries were included
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Those living in the American colonies in the seventeenth century faced many challenges. These tensions of political‚ social‚ religious and economic natures came from abroad and within. Influences of the political and economic nature from abroad onto the established American colonies shifted the shape and nature of the colonies; whereas‚ the social and religious tensions from abroad tended to create new colonies. The Quakers‚ for instance‚ were a group of English Protestants who left England in
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regions of New England and the Chesapeake experienced dramatic changes and stimulated development due to the increase in immigration from Europe to this new world of the Americas. The immigrants that came to the New England colony differed in terms of reasons for coming and differences in ways of establishing a foundation for the society verses the Chesapeake colony. The differentiating motives‚ interactions between the natives‚ and the formation of the structure of society created the differences
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section1 Guide questions 1. to what extent did the colonists government themselves? 2. How did the policy of salutary neglect benefit the colonies and Great Britain? Political life in the colonies Why did molasses matter? Molasses Act of 1733 Goal: the law which control the smugglers who made life much harder for British customs officials trying to enforce trade laws The reason why molasses are important: rum which was the most popular drink in the colonies. Function: the Molasses Act made the
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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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