Reasoning Behind Settling in the American Colonies During the time period after the founding of the new world‚ many people is distant lands were looking for a way out. The American colonies seemed to be a fresh start for most people living in different regions. The biggest reason why most decided to settle in the American colonies was due to better economic opportunity that were available there. Many factors encouraged the English to establish colonies in North America. Three main reasons being
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The initial settlers of the various thirteen colonies generally left a deep impact on the individual cultures and demographics that would later develop there. Jamestown‚ the first successful settlement‚ was initially settled entirely by men‚ young adventurers and “gentlemen‚” with women only arriving later and in smaller numbers. When the Jamestown colonists and those who followed them began to spread out‚ they retained a male-dominated atmosphere even as small tobacco farms grew into enormous plantations
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Processing What was life really like in the colonies? Everyone either had a farm or in a city‚ no one lived in the suburbs. Many people made money on their farms or plantations where many slaves worked for the landowner. Also‚ many children didn’t receive education unless you were quite wealthy. So‚ let’s see what was life really like in the colonies. Let’s start off where people live‚ many people were farmers and that’s how they made a living. They grew their own food and even made things out
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and Virginia colonies. How do the governing structures differ and what do they tell us about the early challenges the two colonies faced? In 1606‚ King James I re-initiated England’s efforts to establish a viable colony in the New World. The 1606 Charter was granted to the Virginia Company for the establishment of a colony in the Chesapeake region of North America. On May 14‚ 1607‚ the settlers landed on Jamestown Island and began the establishment of the Virginia English Colony. As political
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settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763‚ the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the emergence of a society quite different from that in England. Changes in religion‚ economics‚ politics‚ and social structure illustrate this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. By 1763 although some colonies still maintained established churches‚ other colonies had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. The British
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the first successful English colony and the people part of the colony had to follow certain rules to survive. The colony was first established by the Virginia Company London Group in May 6‚ 1607. The colony was located on the banks of the James River and when it began the people relied on the Indians to teach them how to plant and harvest crops. As the colony continued and slowly became independent from the Indians they built a three sided fort to protect themselves from the Indians and the Spanish
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War appeared because of the Northern and Southern perspectives of slavery‚ and the economic policies of both sides. The Union‚ also known as the Northern side‚ had won the Civil War. The Union won the Civil War because of how they had more of superior resources than the Southerners. The Civil War began when the Northern and the Southern argued for their perspective on slavery‚ economic policies‚ and cultural practices. The difference between the Northern and the Southern states that contributed to
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an empire in the Western Hemisphere. They founded most colonies in the east of the U.S.A‚ and many Caribbean islands. The English were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas‚ and had a rivalry with the Spanish. The English began colonizing in the late 16th century and came out on top when all their colonies were built through America. The Spanish conquered most of the Western Hemisphere‚ and their colonization attempts were started by the Spanish conquistadors. It all started with
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suppressed by local militia 5. Slaves more manageable than white indentured servants – no slave rebellion in Amer. history matched Bacon’s Rebellion II. Southern Society A. Gaps in South’s social structure 1. Rough equality of poverty & disease of early days → defined hierarchy of wealth+status in early 18th century 2. Top of southern social ladder = small but powerful group of great
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development of two different societies from the colonial period up until 1700. Factors sprouting from these intentions include social factors‚ political factors‚ and economic factors. These factors and motives are the basis of the two different lifestyles of people who were once‚ and would eventually be‚ of the same culture; of the same civilization. First and foremost‚ the piety of settlers of New England was the beginning of an inevitable dissimilarity among the two. These were people
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