...Justin Baker R. Brogan US History 1865 Midterm Essay #1: Question #1: Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies Compare and Contrast America has always been a land of diversity but also a land of unity. This statement also applied to the first English settlements that were established here in North America. In the beginning years of America, the colonies could be divided into three regional areas: New England colonies, middle colonies and the southern colonies. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island comprised the northern colonies; New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania made up the middle colonies; and Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia composed the southern colonies. These three colonial areas had both similarities and differences that will be analyzed in respects to their economic base, political structures, and attitudes toward slavery established in these three regional areas throughout this essay. Although many different types of Europeans founded the colonies throughout the eastern seaboard they were some similarities as to how they were established and how they made their economic bases. Throughout the Norton text I’ve noticed that all of the colonies were established through some sort of business enterprise, whether it was through the Massachusetts Bay Company, or the Virginia Company, or even a lone entrepreneur, looking to make a fortune for them. These businesses were all expected to turn a profit, some of them...
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...America, the colonies could be divided into three regional areas: New England colonies, middle colonies and the southern colonies. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island comprised the northern colonies; New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania made up the middle colonies; and Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia composed the southern colonies. These three colonial areas had both similarities and differences that will be analyzed in respects to their economic base, political structures, and attitudes toward slavery established in these three regional areas throughout this essay. Although many different types of Europeans founded the colonies throughout the eastern seaboard they were some similarities as to how they were established and how they made their economic bases. Throughout the Norton text I’ve noticed that all of the colonies were established through some sort of business enterprise, whether it was through the Massachusetts Bay Company, or the Virginia Company, or even a lone entrepreneur, looking to make a fortune for them. These businesses were all expected to turn a profit, some of them did and some of them didn’t. However all of the hard work that was done and all of the profit made usually went back to owners of these companies like the Massachusetts Bay Company and the Virginia Company or the profits went to the King of England or to the individual entrepreneur. Another benefactor in having the colonies established...
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...When was South Carolina founded? Why? By who? South Carolina was founded by King Charles ll. King Charles originated from England. He found the land, then he made South Carolina and North Carolina one big colony. He was inspired by his fathers name to title the land he now owned. His fathers name as '' Carolus''. So, King Charles ll named the land '' Province of Carolina''. This happened in 1633. King Charles owned all of this land up until 1729. In 1729, King Charles allowed eight nobles to settle on a part of his land. The only reason he allowed the eight nobles to be the first people to settle in the other halve of Province of Carolina was ,because the eight nobles were apart of the royal families and also because King Charles ll...
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...As the American colonies, mostly the Southern colonies, became more rich and appealing than the motherland of England, several men, and women and even children sought to live there. However, most of them could not afford the passage to the colonies, so they agreed to work for a time to pay off the debt and get started in their new life. In order to do this, they meet with an English representative to sign an indenture, or contract, that included housing and food in exchange for labor. The time these people worked was from 4 to 7 years, but children would have worked longer. In other cases, indentured servants were not free people, but prisoners and sinners sent to the colonies as punishment. Nevertheless, they had the following liberties while working. Even though indentured servants had to work tirelessly, they were not slaves. They had a few rights granted to them in the contract. While working, the household or plantation that...
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...Most of our discoveries didn’t just pop out of the blue. No, they came from a certain time period in the past that has evolved over time into something much larger and improved. The southern colonies were established in the seventieth and eighteenth centuries by England in North America. Consisting of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The purpose of founding these colonies was to compete with other European powers in the search of wealth, land, and clothing. Over time they developed an economy based on cash crops such as tobacco, indigo, rice and cotton. The southern colonies were an ideal place for agriculture. The climate was warm and damp, which made it easy to grow plants. Virginia’s and Maryland’s main crop was tobacco, Georgia grew cotton, rice, and indigo, and South Carolina’s main crop was rice, indigo, sugarcane and cotton as well. The people who harvested these plantations were African American slaves and people of the poverty. We still use most of these products that were grown centuries ago. In fact, they play a large part of our life providing everyday uses. The southern colonies is the beginning of plantations to produce products that are still around centuries later. The land was rich of...
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...tribe died on english territory because of English expansion. Metacom, also known as King Philip, became the new chief and declared war on the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, they were different in the way that each of them ended. The Pequot War ended with a treaty that sold the surviving Pequots into slavery. Bacon’s Rebellion ended when Bacon suddenly died after almost winning. King Philip’s War ended when King Philip was beheaded and the rest of the tribe was sold into slavery. The Pequot War’s lasting impact was that it kept the Native’s from challenging the Northern colonies for another 40 years. Bacon Rebellion’s impact was that it scared the upper-class into using slaves rather than indentured servants who could gain freedom and hurt them. King Philip’s War’s impact was that it became the last major effort...
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...the colonists became more independent from other nations. People had different jobs that varied along the coast. The landmass was divided into 13 colonies that each had separate functions. The New England colonies mainly fished and cut down trees. The Middle Colonies were more suitable for farming and reaped profits from grains and shipbuilding . The Southern Colonies grew cash crops such as tobacco, indigo, and rice. In addition to difference of economy, the colonies were settled by different people, thus leading to a variety of governments and society. All the colonies have very diverse lifestyles but they still have the basic english culture running through all of them. Although, they may be leaded by the king or by an individual they still have the basic jobs of farming or housework and still they retain the same social order. Government differed among the colonies, and these governments were divided into three...
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...power of the declaration of independence In 1787 is when the constitution is drafted, a woman asked enfraklion what the founders had given the american people. A “republic(Metaxas,Eric)” he shot back, “if you can keep(Metaxas,Eric.)” “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness (W.M.Akers.)” is what Thomas jefferson is what base the refrince. Life in the colonies Back in the Northern colonies, the slaves make their living by fishing, whaling, and ship bubbling, growing crops. The ships were built from the wood that came from the thick of the forest making these ships strong and sturdy.However the slaves have to provide for their families, the way that the slaves provide for their family was to work the land by planting crops of wheat Along the way there were some challenges for the slaves like the climate and geography, impacted the trade between the towns and the towns along the coast line. The first immigrants arrived in virginia in 1619. “Slaves were brought into New England throughout the entire colonial period (Slaves in new England- Medford Historical Society & Museum”)....
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...Topic: “What crops were important to the English Colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of these crops shape the colonies?” Cotton, corn, and tobacco were the most vital to the success of farmers in the south, and helped format the South, and its people into the way it is now. Cotton and corn required immense amounts of labor to pick, tend, and harvest the crops. Also, tobacco is favored, and popular here in the south still today; all these ways crops helped shape the southern colonies in the United States of America. Typically it was slaves and a few lower class whites that provided the large amounts of labor that are needed to efficiently harvest corn and tobacco, and pick cotton, and remove the seeds from the cotton. Obviously, labor was the key ingredient to making the South successful, and making the people who live there tough, worn out, and hard to break. Cotton, at the time, was one of the main resources for clothing. The low bales produced put cotton on high demand, at high prices. Southerners cut costs by using cheap, inexpensive slave labor. “Ample evidence indicates that slaves worked well below their capabilities. In several instances in Mississippi, when cotton picking was carefully supervised in local experiments, slaves picked two or three times their normal output. The records of the Barrow plantation in Louisiana revealed that inefficiency and negligence were the cause of two-thirds of the punishments inflicted on slaves…”(1)...
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...his service. He promised to provide these child servants with the established conditions for servitude and freedom. They would receive clothing, shelter, and food. Furthermore, the young indentured servants were Christians. One of the child servants was below the age of a pre-schooler and was one year old when imposed with work under Captain. Pott until she lived "to the age of thirty years old" (Doc 2). Capt. Francis Pott is using the two young girls for whatever service he needs. His interest in the slave trade and other slave owners continued this process for economic benefits and profits. Christians did not know whether or not baptism could save slave children from salvation. This controversy was cited by the Virginia Assembly in a document that provided a solution: "Baptism does not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedom" (Doc 3). This law reflects a significant departure from the British Common Law that established the illegality of enslaving Christians. In a more pessimistic–realistic lens, this law reflects a mere justification for slavery and a concession to the growing power of the colonial Virginia elite. Consequently, without the elimination of indentured servants, justification of slavery by religion would be unlikely. The economic need for cheap labor and the increase in slavery brought to the southern colonies are the reasons slavery got...
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...Colonial America increasingly became a land of white opportunity and black slavery (Tindal & Shi 2012). Due to the Southern colonies climate advantage it enabled them to grow exotic staples which demanded the need for more labor. Indentured servants, person promised to work for a fixed number of years in return for land or freedom, were either voluntary or forced to serve for a master. Indentured servants were used as a solution to the agricultural labor problem within the colonies. Their rights were limited and engaging in trade was prohibited which enabled slavery to later be enforced. Changes and problems aided to indentured servants’ beginning and decline within colonies. Colonies faces unintended consequences of using indentured servants such as weather conditions or...
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...American colonies was hard. Everyone had to pitch in to produce the necessities of life; there was little room for slackers. Because men outnumbered women by a significant number in the early southern colonies, life there, especially family life, was relatively unstable. But the general idea was that all colonials had to work to survive meant that everyone, male and female, had to do one’s job. The work required to sustain a family in the environments of the early colonies was needed for all. While the women had to sew, cook, take care of domestic animals, make many of the necessities used in the household such as soap, candles, clothing, and other necessities, the men were busy building, repairing tools, harvesting crops, hunting, fishing, and protecting the family from whatever threat might come, from wild animals to Indians. The colonists brought with them traditional attitudes about the proper status and roles of women. Women were considered to be the “weaker ones,” not as strong physically or mentally as men and less emotionally stable. They couldn’t vote, hold public office, or participate in legal matters on their own behalf, and chances to go outside the home were limited. Women were expected to listen to their husbands and be obedient to them without questions. Husbands, in return, were expected to protect their wives against all threats, even at the cost of their own lives if necessary. It is clear that separation of labor existed in the colonies. Women did...
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...poor. Over half of the immigrants were indentured servants and slaves. Some of the servants volunteered and some were forces or kidnapped into migrating. These indentured slaves played a major role in the development of American colonies. The indentured slaves wanted to move to America and the masters needed labor. This became a path for families to finance their trip to America is search for a better life. Indentured Servants Beginning and Decline...
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...A Gumbo of Influences: Louisiana’s Slave History, 1763 to Statehood The state of Louisiana has a very diverse and rich heritage and unique history. The history that will be referred to in this essay is that of Louisiana's slaves and slave laws. Much of the country’s slave history is easily traceable through the original thirteen colonies before the Revolutionary War and declaration of the states’ independence from British rule. But what about the slave territories that were later added to the Union? Being the eighteenth state to join the Union, Louisiana’s slave history originates from a different colonial super-power; but which one? Many are lead to believe that to be the French. While they are not incorrect, they are not entirely correct in saying that. Louisiana was a territory transferred through the hands of many. Louisiana was most touched by the hands of the Company of the West Indies, the French Crown, as well as the Spanish Crown and each hand left its own print in the territory’s slave history. First, one needs to take an initial look into some general concessions about Southern Slavery and the so called Southern Slave System. The purpose of slavery was to acquire cheap labor. There is also what many people refer to as the “Chattel System” or “Chattel Principle” which held slaves to a numeric value. A fugitive slave, J.W.C Pennington, recalled this principle: any slave’s identity might be disrupted as easily as a price could be set and a piece of paper passed from...
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...4 Washington wanted fashionable clothing that advertised his status as a gentlemen. He wanted to look, live and behave like an English country gentlemen, and wanted to be accepted as a transatlantic member of the British elite. The wealthy colonist’s aspirations testified important developments in the 18th century. Prosperity and growing population tied the English colonies to London and the flow of goods between Britain and America fueled the desires for acceptance by the British elite. They wanted America to be more like London with their wealth and overflowing production of goods. The Great Awakening was a huge religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle colonies and New England in the 1740’s and then spreading to the southern colonies. The Great Awakening affected everyone. Whitefield, an Anglican minister came to the colonies and revivals and mass conversions often followed his appearance. Crowds gathered to listen to his sermons and many converted and despaired salvation. Disputes between individuals and more extreme revivals split individuals into two separate churches, New Lights and Old Lights. These Revivals created tension between these two groups. However, The Great Awakening not only brought religious revival between groups it also fostered greater political awareness and participation among colonist. Chapter 5 As the war was drawing to a close conflict between the Cherokee Indians on the southern frontier flared into violence. The...
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