Three Colonial Groups In Colonial America

The history of North America centers around the struggle of England, France, and Spain to gain control of the continent. Settlers and their governments used different approaches on their efforts to colonization. These differences lead to advantages and disadvantages that resulted in the New World’s fate. France and Spain were governed by sovereigns whose rule was absolute. The English colonists were able to govern themselves and had plenty of freedom as long as they followed English law and were loyal to the king. England strengthened immigration from other nations, unlike France and Spain. By 1763, the English have defeated France and Spain in the French and Indian War establishing dominance over North America.

In the 15th century, Spain and Portugal had started the search to make an empire. It was not until 1607 that European colonizers landed in the New World, or what is known today as the United States of America. By 1733, all of the 13 colonies of America were established. Britain gained control of most of these colonies after it defeated the French in the Seven Years’ War. This was a North American conflict that was also a part of a larger land conflict between super powers in Europe like Britain and France.

Colonization DBQ Although America is based on democratic values, and early colonies demonstrated democratic features, certain aspects of colonial life were not democratic. Virginia’s House of Burgesses was a legislature that was comprised of representatives chosen by the people, an example of a representative democracy (Doc. 6). This was the first democratic government to be established in America. In the house of Burgesses, a group of representatives were elected by the people to represent them and make decisions.

The British Empire dramatically changed when Christopher Columbus located America. Countries were rushing to get a piece of the shiny new land they could conquer. No country wanted to be left behind on the road to colonization, the more they owned the more powerful they were. The French came and colonized central and northern America. The Dutch collected patchy parts of northern America and Spain got southern America (Keene et al, section 2).

The Spanish for example, had a military fort in St, Augustine, Florida and carried on missionary activities as far north as Port Royal, South Carolina. Most of their colonization was either religion or military based as they planned to build missions to benefit the peaceful Native Americans and military outposts to deal with the hostile ones. The Spanish planed to use missions to grow their empire within the borders of America. The British on the other hand wished at first exploit the natives, fish and search for passage to the pacific. These were the ideas of Humphrey Gilbert. Gilbert makes a few voyages to America and nothing stays but after Gilbert dies, Sir Walter Raleigh asks to charter a new colony. He establishes the colonies Roanoke and Virginia and he eventually leaves, but in 1607 a joint stock company, the Virginia Company of London founds Jamestown. Eventually John Smith takes over Jamestown John Smith took over as a much more affective ruler. He then maps the colony, explores it and gets corn from the Indians so that the colonists can survive. The French however, did not colonize as much as the British did, and did not wish to harshly change the Native Americans way of life like the Spanish. In the early years, the French had one colony, New France but in 1682 the

As a member of British Parliament, there would be several points to make in order to rationalize the large taxation of American colonists to defend them. Firstly, it is well known that colonists, especially on the more Western lying regions, lived in a fear of attacks from Native American tribes. Higher taxation would support a larger military which would in turn create a stronger British military presence in the colonies in order to defend from attacks. Not only would they be protecting against Indian attacks, the military could also be used in an effort to stop the advancement of other European nations in North America into the British territories. Both Spain and France, especially France, had made agressions into the English colonies in

The fist British settlement in the Americas was Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. From 1607 to 1763 the colonies started growing and the colonists had national pride. “This all changed after the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) when the government started imposing new laws.

England had first started having settlements in North America during The Age of Exploration, over time thirteen colonies were formed. In 1765 Britain began taxing their American colonies to help make up for the money lost by protecting them in the French and Indian war (bbc.com). This was the beginning of the colonies intolerance for their motherland. They continued to become more frustrated with Britain as they realized that as colonies of Britain they did not have all the same rights as British citizens. In 1775 the civil war between Britain and it’s thirteen colonies had just begun and lasted until 1783(bbc.com).

Americans, slave and free, black and white. Between 1860 and 1877, America had gone through civil war

Whether by land or by sea, eighteenth century colonial travel was arduous, expensive, and many times dangerous. Because of this, few people traveled very far from their homes. Transportation has changed dramatically since the late 1700’s. It was during this time that Colonial America was budding as a new country. This was before airplanes, which appeared in the very early stages of the 1900’s. Cars showed up about the same time, so rewind about 200 plus years and we’re back in colonial America. It wasn’t civilized like it is today. The dirt roads were bumpy, grimy, and when the rains came, they were mud baths. So how did people during this time get around? Often, they didn’t. Not many people could afford the cost of travel back then. Daily American Colonial Life was extremely harsh for the first settlers and colonists. They were faced with a new country, unknown territory and no friends, relatives or neighbors to help them “In those days, it was fairly expensive to travel. Because of this, generally only government officials, merchants, and planters took the risk (Constitution Facts).” Women were supposed to stay home and look after the children while the husband went off to do business. America was still a budding country, so there were not as many cities as there are now and they were more spread out. If the man wanted to travel, it would require several hours, or even several days to ride on horseback. Often the husband wouldn’t return for a couple of days, and when he

The British have been the source of American trade since the founding of the colonies. Colonist had a slight fear always on their mind of the British revoking that help. When colonist thought of breaking away, they also considered the dire situation they could put themselves in. While in America, there wasn't any form of government to help with trade, so the fully relied on the mother land. With Britain's knowledge of this, the colonist thoughts shifted and they viewed their mother land

Although today equality is one of the main aspects of the American government, during the foundation period groups that were not given many freedoms used their rights to fight for greater equality. In 1977, African-American activists signed the Slave Petition for Freedom in an attempt to free slaves and give them freedoms. In America, slaves were treated very badly under the control of white aristocrats. Slaves were put under very strict guidelines and if those instructions were not met, they would be punished. Slaves were “Unjustly Dragged by the hand of cruel Power from their Derest (Dearest) friends and sum (some) of them Even torn from the Embraces of their tender Parents” and “Deprived of Every social privilege of Every thing Requisit

Diversity is one of the most significant factors that increases the likelihood of ensuring numerous opportunities in countries throughout the world. Henceforth, the primary aspects leading to the shaping of society and the development of diversity in black America during colonial times, were race, ethnicity, religion and slavery. Race and Ethnicity played a major role in the establishment of colonies by initiating the idea of being able to identify and distinguish the differences and commonalities that allowed an individual to refer to himself or herself as African- American. This required more than the ability and freedom of displaying the color of your skin, it required an in-depth analysis and observation of the unique traits and characteristics that traced the genetically modified DNA shared with our ancestors to our native land of Africa, to truly identify oneself as African American.

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland were the thirteen colonies all had a different reason to be a colony.

The American Colonies for the past 20 years have become accustomed to living a thousand miles from their sovereign, the King of England and Parliament. This separation from “monarchial” control and power has created a tough and independent society, which although they believe themselves to be subjects of the crown, has molded an experience and lifestyle unlike any found within the “Crown’s” realm. Subsequently, these differences in lifestyles bond both Mother Country and colony on a path that veers from the typical empirical rule that has ruled the known world for the last century.