The British Colonies

The colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut made up the New England colonies. Most of the Europeans in the New England colonies were there to escape the religious persecution they faced in England. They practiced a lot of different things in these colonies compared to the middle and southern and colonies of colonial america.

The New World was divided into three parts known as the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies. These colonies were established for many reasons to benefit the settlers who were coming from countries around the world. Most of their motives were similar, but others were very different. Specifically, the New England Colonies and the Southern were similar and different in many aspects concerning their religion, politics, and economics.

Before the American Revolution, there are several British Colonies in the Americas. Not all of them participated in the revolution. There were 13 clones which ended up rebelling. These were Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Mary land,North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. The colonists wanted to be free from the England. They started to fight the soldiers of the English army in 1775. The Americans started a war with England. We call it the Revolutionary War. The American Revolution was on April 19, 1775 and is called the “shot heard around the world” It was named that because the hand draw action of the battles of Lexington and concord an the siege of Boston

Everyone has an external force that motivates them in some way that allows them to be able to go about their everyday lives and fulfill their ambitions. Within the years of 1580 and 1763 this force took the form of God. Around this same time was when the Chesapeake and New England colonies were in the process of being founded. As a result, these two settlements did nothing without referencing their actions to God. Due to this heavy focus on God as the reason behind every aspect of their lives, chaos began to sprout soon after the settlers began settling and started living their new lives in the colonies.

By 1775 tensions between american and british colonies were at an all time high. Parliment had been passing laws placing taxes on the colonists in america. The sugar act in 1764, the stamp act, and a variety of other laws to steal money from the colonists for Greatritian had been passed and upset the colonists.

At the dawn of the 17th Century, England was in a suitable position to colonize North America. England had finally reached peace with Spain, and England had many workers willing to travel to America for a chance at religious freedom, affluence, and exploration. Aided by the funding of the Virginia Company, roughly one hundred English settlers landed on the North American shore in 1607, at a place they would name Jamestown. In the ensuing decades, more people traveled to this new land, and they expanded their territories, eventually forming the Thirteen Original Colonies. At first glance, the colonies were very much alike, as they had all kept their English culture and remained loyal to England. However, after closer inspection it was evident that many concrete differences existed between the colonies, specifically between the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial regions. Despite the colonies’ loyalty to England and their similar cultures, the Thirteen British North American Colonies had distinct differences in their economies, moral and religious principles, and settling patterns.

Highspring is the newest colony in the Colonial America region. The land the colony was founded on is rich with resources and raw materials. This opens up lots of opportunities for trade with other colonies and countries, and also jobs and trades for her citizen.

The economy of the colonies was also impacted. Britain's attempts to raise revenue after the war caused tension among the colonies. With the end of salutary neglect, a stricter enforcement of mercantilism and new policies soon replaced it. Facing the enormous debt of the war, the British realized, “not only [was the] revenue impaired, but the commerce of the colonies diverted from its natural course” (Doc F). In order to resolve this issue, they decided to impose taxes on the colonists through various acts such as the Revenue Act, Sugar Act, and, most notably, the Stamp Act of 1765. The act, passed by British Parliament, imposed a direct tax on the colonists, requiring them to pay for a stamp on all printed materials. These various acts sparked

North America by the eighteenth century had developed a strong economy in which a wide range of production took place in the South Colonies. Agriculture was the main livelihood and focus for the Southern Colonies. Native American showed the resources available in the region to settlers such agricultural plots, fishing grounds, hunting territories and water sources. The warm climate and fertile soil in which Colonists were actively exploiting those resources and having large plantations of different crops. Some of the crops they planted were indigo, rice, corn, and tobacco. Most of the Southern colonies’ farms were big in land sized between 75 to 125 acres. Setters also learned how to build gardens and planted vegetables like

A new world developed between the 16th and 18th century focused on growing empires establishments of ‘power and profit’. Ogborn argues that through various types of global connections and the rise and fall of global powers, a global history was created. In particular, the exchange of goods and services by Britain and the English colonies was only obtainable through utilizing transportation. As a result, an advantageous Atlantic economy was formed . Britain applied transportation as a method of ridding the country of undesirables, which included convicts, and consequently created the criminal transportation system. Beattie notes that Britain was simultaneously able to benefit the English colonies, providing the colonists with servants

“[New monarchs in Europe] built royal bureaucracies and standing armies and navies. [They] found support among the increasingly wealthy merchants…This alliance between commerce and political power was another important development that prepared the way for European expansion.” (Faragher 28-9) These alliances paved the way for the expeditions of Columbus, etc. French expeditions in the north opened up a fur trade between the Native Americans and the Europeans. “[T]he fur trade was essentially an unequal exchange, with furs selling in Europe for ten or twenty times what Indians received for them. [Further,] European epidemic disease soon followed in the wake of the traders, and violent warfare broke out between tribes over access to hunting grounds…Indians grew dependent upon European suppliers.” (Faragher 39-40) With France engaging the financial benefits of the northern section of the New World and Spanish and Portuguese trading in the central and southern sections, England saw fit to join the fray. “In a state paper written for the queen, the scholar Richard Hakluyt summarized the advantages that would come from the colonies: they would provide bases from which to raid the Spanish in the Caribbean, commercial outposts for the Indian market and English goods, and plantations for growing tropical products, freeing the nation from a reliance on the long-distance trade with

The New world was of great wonders discovered by the Vikings, inhabited by the natives ,and stolen by a bitter elite, that punches the great world with an iron fist; the explorer, Columbus starting the brick of colonization, an open path for Europeans to take the land and call it their own to grasp a new life, a dream that is to be savored and fulfilled as growth and prosperity continues to emerges out of the westernmost winds, and south of the Mediterranean sea, dominating the land, free to do whatever they please.

Exploratory expeditions to the New World quickly led to colonial settlements, as the major European countries vied with each other for a portion of the western hemisphere’s riches. »full text

Soon after the discovery of the Americas in 1492, various European powers raced to colonize the New World in order to accumulate more wealth, become a global power, and spread religion. The four most powerful and prominent empires that colonized the Americas were the Spanish, British, Dutch, and French. The British colonies attracted far more immigrants than the others because the British colonies were allowed freedom of religion as compared to the strictly Catholic French, the Spanish poor relations with the native population, and the Dutch colony quickly eroded because of poor government.

When a mighty imperial power adds a new territory to their already enormous empire; the new territory must be pacified in order to control the people of the newly annexed land. Colonization, in which the colonizer introduces new ideas to the native people, results in a culture being nearly wiped from the face of earth. A prime example is found in the Algonquin language of Mesquakie, (a language spoken only by somewhere around 1000 people). The reason this ancient language is in such bad shape is due to the racism expressed by the Caucasian people in the process of colonization. Chinua Achebe clearly demonstrates the harmful effects colonization has on Umuofia in the book Things Fall Apart, a novel about a man named Okonkwo and the changes he experiences during the British colonization of his home :Umuofia, the British forces western education, Christianity, and their court system upon the Igbo people which in return severely damages their culture. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe demonstrates how the education of Igbo children, the religion; Christianity and the new court system imposed upon the native Igbo people results with severe damages to their culture which escalates to the death of the beloved main character Okonkwo as well as the near disappearance of their culture.