Chapter 1 2) My interpretation of the word discovery is when someone detects or finds something new or previously unknown. In 1492 an explorer named Christopher Columbus was requested by the King of Spain to find a more direct route to Asia. When he made landfall 6 weeks after leaving Spain he thought he landed in Asia. But really he had found something else‚ an unknown mass of land blocking the route to Asia‚ the Americas. Columbus failed his main task he did not discover a quicker route to
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On May 14th‚ 2007 the author will be celebrating his family’s living in America for 400 years. In that‚ on May 14th‚ 1607‚ English settlers first landed at the site that would become Jamestown‚ Virginia the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States (wikipedia.org‚ 2007). The early settlers were driven by a desire for a better life but were met with constant prejudice from
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Bailey Kargo! IB HOTA 3rd period English vs. Spanish Colonization From 1500 to 1700‚ the English colonization of the Chesapeake region and the Spanish colonization of the Central/South American region varied greatly in their primary motivations for settlement and the lasting effects imprinted into both societies. The English motives in settling the Chesapeake region were more economically-based‚ seeking greater economic opportunity and employment‚ while the Spanish effort took on a more
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important ones include Virginia and Carolina. Virginia first became a colony through the settling of Jamestown‚ in 1607. Jamestown was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London‚ and founded primarily for the purpose of gold‚ and in the hopes of finding a Northwest Passage to India. It was originally intended on being formed for a profit motive‚ not a permanent settlement. The first people to settle Jamestown were one hundred “gentlemen‚” not hunters or farmers. This led to the famous “starving time” during
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Centers and Peripheries George Bancroft- Not officially a historian Charles Austin Beard- Officially historian Bancroft: Philosophical ideals Beard: Economic Determinism Sources- Primary(he looks into documents(constitution)) ‚ Secondary(Books he wrote about)‚ All suspicious (victims to their own prejudice) Fredrick Jackson Turner “The aim of history‚ then ‚ is to know the elements of the present by understanding Analysis (SPEC) Social Political Economic Cultural
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The years 1607 and 1629 saw the start of two English colonies in the New World-first Jamestown and then the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Both were mainly populated by people of English origin‚ and yet the differences between the two colonies were significant and evident. As they evolved‚ the two colonies developed contrasting economies‚ societies‚ and institutions. These major differences can be traced to the varying motives for colorizations‚ the types of settlers‚ the geography and climate of the
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Cited: Heinemann‚ Kolp‚ Parent Jr.‚ Shade. “A History of Virginia 1607-2007.” Old Dominion‚ New Commonwealth. University of Virginia Press. 2007. 211-239. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../9780803222007_excerpt.pdf www.academicamerican.com/colonial/topics/slavery.htm www.wikipedia.com
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Shakespeare’s play that was first performed in London in 1611‚ and at that time there were no African slaves (referred to as Calibans) in Virginia. Two years after the play was performed the colony sent its first small shipment of tobacco to London. By 1620 the production of tobacco grew enormously. The first Africans were brought to Virginia as indentured servants just as the white men were‚ but the land owners in Virginia didn’t want a lot of African servants because they wanted to build a new England
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Professor Barton describes how only after a year of settlement in the New World‚ during the winter of 1607‚ there only remained 38 of the original 104 settlers of the Jamestown Colony.” This included months on end without food or supply from the British homeland‚ dysentery and malaria‚ Indian assaults‚ and eventual cannibalism of cats‚ dogs‚ and people. These circumstances forced colonists
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IB History 11 17 September 2013 America Chapters 1- 1. Challenges to the Spanish empire a. The success of Spain encourages Portugal‚ France‚ England‚ and the Netherlands to claim parts of the New World a.i. First French effort to colonize- c. 1538- Jacques Cartier a.ii. Dutch and English grow in power and start colonizing. Netherlands become largely protestant and rebel against Spanish rule- 1567- do not receive independence until 1648 a.iii. Francis Drake‚ English “sea dog” (pirate/smuggler)
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