England

In the 1500's England struggled to compete with the flourishing Spanish empire. England also found itself in a religious conflict, between Catholics and Protestants. This all started in the 1530's, when King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, and launched the English Protestant Reformation. The religious conflict lasted for decades; however, it intensified once the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I took over the English throne, which turned England into a Protestant country, consequently

In England, there's a rising rate in crime, but due to the recently discovered land, it gives England a new outlook to the crime punishment. For example, Document 1D4 states, “...these petty thieves might be condemned for certain years to the western parts…”The criminals would be sentenced to America in order to fulfill the punishment given by the government.Many people are able to be punished for their wrongdoings. If England settles in America, they are able to deal with the rising crime rate.

glory but most found neither while few grew very Rich. New England did not have this type of workforce. Both regions created very unique societies from each other while surviving in the great American wilderness. New England was sought out by people fleeing the Old World’s religious prosecution. Many religions made their foundations in New England. The Puritans, who were never on the king’s good side, set up a large colony in New England that received many immigrants who sought to join their Puritan

The Feudal System in the Middle Ages of England was not the best system of government to go by for everyone since it gave most of its power to the King, and made it impossible for the lower class to improve themselves economically. People of higher rank expected the lower ranks of society to pledge their loyalty to them and in turn, protected them. There came a time where everybody became tired of never progressing, and people started to do something about it. The end to Feudalism did not just happen

The English developed their earliest successful colonies in New England and the Chesapeake region began when the respective ideas of a haven for Anglican families to escape religious persecution, and a colony that would financially profit the people of England. Joint-stock companies’ investments were likely to succeed, and fast returns, led to the Virginia Company’s funding of Jamestown in the quest for gold, which was scarce in the swamps. Separatists saw benefit in a settlement with lower population

New England colonies developed rapidly throughout the early 1600s and the Puritans helped found most of those colonies. They were Christian group who fled from Europe to escape persecution from the Church of England and the ruling class. They originated from a movement for reform in the Church of England and came with certain values and ideas. They believed that God wanted them to set a good example that would cause those who had remained in England to reform their “sinful” ways and pretty much wanted

The Development of New England and Chesapeake. By the 1700s the east coast was settled into distinct civilizations. New England was a society based on religious freedom, colonial ideals and an early democratic system. Chesapeake however, was founded in hopes of economic prosperity based on autocracy ethics. Englishmen founded both the English colonies; therefore the culture branched off into two distinct colonies. In the 1630s Tobacco was found to be a cash crop in Virginia, so another colony to

Christianity spreads to England. In the 1st Century A.D. Britain had its own set of religious icons: Pagan gods of the earth and Roman gods of the sky. Into this superstitious and violent world came a new religion Christianity. Christianity was just considered another  cult among many, but unlike the cults of Rome, Christianity demanded exclusive allegiance from its followers. It was this intolerance of other gods, and its secrecy, which rattled the Roman authorities and led to repeated persecutions

4. Vikings in Anglo-Saxon England – Scandinavian influence The process of Christianization and Latin influx was interrupted at the end of the eight century (787) when the Vikings (Norwegian and Dane tribes) began their ravages over Anglo-Saxon England, sacking monasteries like Lindisfarne and Jarrow (793-794). By the ninth century, churches and monasteries in Northumbria and Mercia lay in ruins while settlements in all parts of the country had been plundered and northern towns, such as York in

there were already two different colonies who existed which were the New England and Chesapeake colonies. Although the New England and the Chesapeake colonies are massively different from each other, there are also many similarities that readers can compare such as their economy, geography, and religious characteristics. Economy between the 16th and 17th centuries were very different in comparing the two colonies. The New England colony was more based upon fishing,