freedom existed in the British North American colonies prior to 1700. Religion‚ one of the main reasons America is what it is now. Ever since the beginning of Jamestown‚ Europeans came to the Americas for a common reason; they sought religious freedom. The Middle Colonies were mostly Quakers with a mixture of Catholics and Jews. The Southern Colonies were similar to the Middle Colonies‚ but they were mostly Catholics. However‚ the New England colonies were mostly Puritans which led to strict laws
Premium Thirteen Colonies Christianity
while England began to occupy the Northeast. The Spanish and English colonies varied in terms of the impact of religion and control of the economy. The Spanish and English colonies varied in terms of religion such as immigration and opinions on salvation. Starting in the late 1500s and early 1600s‚ conquistadors such as Vasco Nunuez de Balboa and Herman Cortes of the Spanish empire first started to make their way into the New World. Known for their mantra‚ “Gold‚ Glory‚ God”‚ the main reason for
Premium United States Thirteen Colonies Colonialism
The Thirteen Colonies‚ that joined together to become the United States of America were part of the first British Empire. Each colony was founded by different people and for different reasons. The main reason was the opportunity to make money to bring together valuable natural resources and selling them to England in exchange for goods that were difficult to get in the New World. Other colonies were set up by the Protestants who wanted to avoid the religious they experienced in Britain‚ and also
Premium Massachusetts Thirteen Colonies Puritan
accelerating mapmaking skills‚ navigation‚ sailing knowledge‚ and ship design gave the Europeans the advantage to rediscovering the New World in 1492 (619). European powers such as the Spanish and English were able to eventually establish colonies in the New World‚ although at different times‚ the Spanish being the first of all of the Europeans. The English and Spanish colonies had numerous contrasting aspects that intertwine with one another‚ such as the social and economic structure‚ attitude on mixing
Premium United States Sociology Colonialism
Vladir Diaz Thirteen Colonies The thirteen colonies in the United States are‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Delaware‚ Maryland‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina and Georgia. Each one of them has their own story characteristics that I’ll be listing them in the following paragraphs. Massachusetts was founded on 1630 by John Winthrop and others. Their major industry consists of fishing‚ corn‚ livestock‚ lumbering‚ shipbuilding and their
Premium United States Thirteen Colonies Massachusetts
During the sixteenth-century in the English Colonies‚ in this time there was a process where the people that owned some of these colonies were going through a time where immigrants were migrating to the new world. Forty-five thousand Puritans left England between 1620 and 1640 and created religious societies in another part of the world also known as the New World. The English people wanted their colonist to learn more about God and his most holy and wise providence‚ the people wanted to have religious
Premium Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony New England
economies of the northern and southern colonies were affected due to many different factors. Because of the different climates and geography of their land‚ the northern colonies and southern colonies had different resources available to them‚ which shaped their societies into what they are today. The resources available to the northern colonies were completely different from the resources that were available to the southern colonies. In the northern colonies‚ due to the climate and geography of
Premium Climate Slavery Southern United States
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ the Northern and Southern colonies were extremely different. Each “section” of America was socially‚ economically‚ and politically dissimilar from the next. From the beginning‚ it was difficult to picture the colonies as their own separate nation due to a lack of colonial unity. In the Southern plantation colonies‚ social structure was molded mostly by the emphasis on slavery and racism that was perpetuated. A hierarchy of status and wealth similar to
Premium Thirteen Colonies Social class Sociology
People will go through all sorts of difficulties and obstacles to make it in life. Striving for wealth and power is something that brings both positive and negative results. During the colonial period the development of the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies was greatly influenced by the effects of the search for riches and power. Each area had common basic interests‚ but the ways in which they went about attaining these goals were in most views different. Prosperity was the major goal of everyone‚ but
Premium Massachusetts Bay Colony Thirteen Colonies Slavery
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
Premium Thirteen Colonies