...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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...rate. Jamestown, settled in 1607, was the first English colony that lasted, but it nearly did not. Of the 104 men and boys who landed on May 1607, only 38 were still alive by January 1608, when 100 new colonists arrived. Things continued to be so grim that in the winter of 1609-1610, later known as the "starving time," survivors resorted to cannibalism (Ghose), and the population of settlers in Virginia shrank from 300 to 90 (60 in Jamestown) ("Jamestown Chronicle Timeline"). Yet in 1620 the Pilgrims voluntarily left England for Virginia. During their first winter in the New World, half of them died. Meanwhile, hundreds more settlers came to Virginia. What...
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...British colonies in the Chesapeake region and New England both had conflicts with the Native Americans due to cultural misunderstanding and the desire for land. The colonists brutally slaughtered the Indians because they control the land that the English colonists wanted for plantations and other resources. In the Chesapeake region, clashes occurred between the Virginia settlers and Powhatan tribe and resulted in the first and second Anglo-Powhatan wars. The colonists exterminated the Indians and burned their villages, banishing the Powhatan tribe from the Chesapeake Bay region to inferior lands. Similarity, in New England, the Pequot War and King Philip's war was fought between the Puritans and the Pequot tribe to resist English settlement on Indian land. In the Mystics Massacre during the Pequot War, the English set an Indian village on fire and shot the escaping survivors; a total of three hundred women and...
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...The New England Colonies The New England colonies consisted of five different colonies. Those colonies were Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. “They were a region of small, self-sufficient farms and towns dependent on long-distance trade (Cayton).” The New England colonies were founded in 1636 (wiki). Plymouth colony was the first established settlement that worked (Cayton). The people that were in the New England colonies were coming from the Netherlands and England. The People were called Puritans or Pilgrims. The New England Colonies were alike because of their economy, religion, and development. One of the main reasons the New England colonies were alike was because of their economy. Some of the natural...
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...During 1620’s two colonies were established. Historically European settlers arrived in America for different reasons, such as fleeing, colonizing, trading and for religious freedom. There were 2 historic figures and both established settlements. John Smith was from England but decided to move to the new world. He and the colonization established Jamestown. William Bradford came to the new world for many goals. John and William wrote a book about their establishment, describing the lifestyle Of each settlement. Both of the books had differences. But they have some similarities and differences in the book and the way they ran the settlements. Traveling on the Susan Constant 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607. Settlers named it Jamestown and...
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... * What was the Columbian Exchange? How did the Columbian Exchange affect Europe? How did it affect North America? The Columbian Exchange is basically understand as the exchange in foods, animals, plants as well as diseases between the New World (North America) and the Old World (Europe) followed after the discovery of America by Columbus. The Columbian Exchange affected both world in many ways. For Europe, it brings avocado, potato, tomato, corn, beans, tobacco, turkeys as positive effects and the negative effect are diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. For North America, positive effects: coffee beans, olive, banana, sugar cane, grape, sheep, pig, horse. And the negative effects impact North America are: smallpox, chickenpox, measles etc… * Name four groups of people who migrated to British North America in the 17th century. Why did each of those groups migrate? Virginia Settlement – these settlers known as the first English settlement to migrated in North America. They prefer to seek opportunities, own some land in this new world and make their own business. Later on tobacco was introduced and the majority of them planned to grow tobacco as it’s the most successful cash crop to become rich. Puritans of New England – their main reason is to...
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...During the seventeenth and eighteenth century many people emigrated from England settling upon the coast of the new Americas. Throughout many expeditions, colonist have then set their own rules and regulations based on significant dogmas. As people migrated from England to the New World, contrast between the Northern and Chesapeake regions became very prevalent. The founding principles which each of these colonies were founded upon influenced many of the colonies decisions, shaping colonists views by different social, political and economic events. Which led to the cultivation of the tobacco crop, the impact of Puritanism in the Colonial Americas and William Penn. Hundreds of settlers came to the Virginia colony seeking riches. Virginia colonists needed a source of revenue to help in the development of their colony. An Englishmen named John Rolfe booked a voyage to the New World. Rolfe was able to attain seeds of tobacco to bring with him to the colony at Jamestown, where he was planning to begin growing the crop in the English colony. It was with this experiment with tobacco that the first profitable export was developed. Rolfe introduced a new sweeter form of tobacco to the colonies, which is different from the Native American variety planted around Jamestown which he found to be bitter. Virginia’s success grew greatly as Rolfe began exporting more and more tobacco. Tobacco then became the New Worlds first commodity to be internationally traded on the global market. Way before...
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...When England, France and the Netherlands came over to North America they all came at different times with different ideas. Each one came to start a new world and expand their land. As shown in document one most of these colonies were very large. All of these countries have many similarities and difference on how they obtained colonies in North America. The French came over to North America and landed in what is now modern day New York. The French were not the first people to land in America. As shown in document three the native Americans were the first people to ever live here. The French brought over many different types of settlers. One big way the French obtained their colony was fur trade. When the English came over they made a settlement called Jamestown where they could grow crops and tend to the ill. In document four it states that all seventeen of the English ships landed safely in New England. The most important thing that helped the English maintain their colony was their discovery of tobacco. Due to this discovery they were able to gain more goods by trading it to places where they could not grow tobacco. The Netherlands also used trade to maintain their colony in North America. They made trading posts near a river. Doing this helped them because when other places wanted to trade they could use their boats and go directly...
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...The Middle Colonies political positions were held by men more of respect and wealth than just being predetermined by the size of a man's farm. They all had people willing to vote. “There were more towns like atmospheres in the middle colonies so more preachers and school teachers were needed. There was more community and a bigger need for politics for its people, so the people were more caring about their leaders and more interested in the government than the south. Where ever you lived in the colonies the geography greatly affected your work and the economy. Within their economy, geographically, socially and even politically. The Middle Colonies, on the other hand, had soil that was good to plant crops in but was not rich enough soil to prosper greatly with plantations and many crops. The New England colonies surpassed all other colonies in the importance of government. All the women wove, cooked, cleaned and cared for the children. They also had many large flowing rivers for ships to export goods and crops. The majority of the people living in the South either owned a plantation or worked on a plantation. The colonies had many differences and similarities economically. They had barely any slaves and a few farms. There were also many men who were single and looking for love in the south since it was an area of few women. The middle colonies were an area of some large plantations and many small farms. The three most important themes of English colonization of America were...
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...Jamestown and Plymouth were the first two successful English colonies in North America. Jamestown was established in 1607 and Plymouth in 1620. Jamestown and Plymouth had many similarities. For example they both had some sort of government in some way. Jamestown had the first legislative assembly among the Western Hemisphere in 1619. This would later be called the, “House of Burgesses.” This served as a good model for many law making bodies in the U.S. Plymouth had a similar government. Their government consisted of general court. They also had a Governor. The government made laws and also levied taxes. Another similarity between the two is neither of the colonies was funded by the royal family. Colonists at Jamestown and Plymouth suffered greatly in the beginning - the colonists at Jamestown weren't used to the hard labor they had to do and suffered from illness, while the colonists at Plymouth arrived later during the year and suffered from an extremely harsh winter. Plymouth and Jamestown also had many distinct differences. For example, they both had different reasons for settlement. The Plymouth colony was in search for religious freedom from England. Jamestown wanted to spread Christianity to the natives and expand English trade. Another difference in these two was their economic cultures. Jamestown experimented with many different things but their main crop was tobacco. Plymouth didn’t have much luck with farming. They took part of another era, trading. They traded...
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...Virginia and New England were settled by the British. The north and the south have many differences and similarities, three major ones being farming, gold, and religion. New England was free religion and Virginia was slavery and gold. The difference between who started Virginia and New England is Virginia started with English soldiers, English and African indentured servants or field laborer or farmers. In New England it all started with leaders and the Puritans. The Puritans were a group of people that considered to reform the Church of England. They didn't want to destroy or separate from the Church of England. They were trying to get away because they wanted their independence back. Virginia survived by the 3 g's; Gold, Glory...
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...New England versus the southern colonies, why were they so different. How where they the same. What makes them so different? For starters,The New England colonies were separatist that started there own communities, living the religious dream life. The Virginia colonist were money making plantations maned by indentured man servants, Woman were scarce. This made these people very different from each other. There cultures and government system were different as well, which was a example to Eastern civilization on what could run better. Relations with the natives was seemingly okay at first but conflict did arise for both parties. The two colonies had a very distinct similarity, they both had bad relations with the natives. The colonist were invaders...
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...The New England Colonies described in one word would be successful. Their population was stable and growing. The women married young and had a child, on average, of every two years creating a stable growth in population. The couples were generally very happy and lived long lives, long enough to get to help take care of their grandchildren. Since divorces were basically unheard of women were given very few rights as individuals. Women were not allowed to hold claim to land of their own because this would cause tension between man and wife. Furthermore women often times gave up any land they had and stayed at home to cook, clean, and look after the children. Furthermore, the swampy biome of the Chesapeake was perfect for growing tobacco and spreading deadly diseases. Disease spread like wildfire through the Chesapeake region primarily killing the men that worked in the tobacco fields widowing many women. Women were widowed within seven years of being married. This stunted population growth and decreased the average life expectancy to under fifty significantly younger than anywhere else. This also gave women more independence. Widowed women were...
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...Two big colonial societies in the 1700’s were the New England and Chesapeake Bay societies. These societies varied in community and family life, but some similarities arose. In this time indentured servants were also widely used. This led to tension and conflict. This conflict though initiated a flourish of slave use in the in the Chesapeake Bay. The New England colonies consisted of what is now Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. These New England societies were very highly involved with educated their colonists. Education began at an early age. Massachusetts even made it a rule that if a town had more than 50 houses a teacher was required to teach the children. They were so involved in education they even founded Harvard in 1636. Harvard originally started as a ministry school to train men to be ministers. This stress on education was very important and had a huge impact on the literacy in New England. Compared to other colonies they had a high rate of individuals who could sign their names. 90% of white males could and 40% of females compared to a 50% rate in other colonies. THey even beat out England where only 33% of white males could read and write. Community life was also very important to New England societies and was set up in a unique way. All the towns were organized in the same way. In the center of each community there was a meeting house. The meeting house was...
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