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Colonial America

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With the discovery of the New World at the end of the 15th century it marked the beginning of European expansion into the Americas. With the unplanned discovery, it allowed for a new life to emerge, however, for some this meant a new fulfilled life and for the rest that meant destruction and isolation. To describe colonial America, we will focus on the biographies of Junipero Serra, Pocahontas and Catherine Tekawitha. With the discovery of the Americas as well as an improvement in ship technology this allowed many to disembark their home regions and set sail for the New World. These settlers were all hoping to find a passage to the West Indies, hoping to return back home with luxury goods. The discovery of the Americas, allowed many to see …show more content…

Natives in New France were essential for the fur trading business since they were excellent guides. As a result of the fur trade, trading posts were created which caused the creation of permanent settlements, along the St. Lawrence River. Due to the fur trade, this allowed for an exchange of commodities to occur as well as religion and culture. With the introduction of goods and a blasting economy many saw British North America as a great opportunity to create wealth. However, most indentured servants that arrived in Virginia realized that obtaining wealth was a hard thing to accomplish. With time, each colony managed to sustain itself and now each colony was in high demand of African slaves. The England’s Royal African Company was responsible for transporting thousands of slaves to English American colonies. The transporting of slaves was one of the greatest economic resources that the English relied on. However, competition was a big issue so in 1651 English Parliament passed its Navigation Act, which was to govern and control trade between England and its colonies. We see a similar technique as well as with the Spanish, “The Crown had barred the colony from producing finished goods, requiring that colonists purchase them from Spain” . With the significance of the American colonies it allowed for an increase in consumer goods. All these goods such as sugar, tea, and chocolate were made accessible to all. However, most of these goods such as sugar and rice came at a cost, thousands of Africans were shipped to the Caribbean’s as well as north and South Carolina to allow for these goods to be

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The colonist were forced to buy british goods,and that’s how and why the colonist started smuggling goods. 1764 of the sugar act britian started lowering the prices of molasses and sugar from being six-pence to three pence.

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Larger fleets of ships would come to meet the native traders before other countries could. They tried to settle trading colonies at the important trading posts along the St. Lawrence River. You could also find wealth in the fisheries and the waters located in the Northern Americas. Gradually more and more ships would come to the New France to go on these fishing trips. But later these same people would leave fishing to go join the fur trade, which was where most of the wealth was

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As the goal of the writer was to educate, the book achieved success in both ways as the reader is left much more informed about early America than when they began reading the novel. The book covers the its main topics in three sections, Discovery, Conquest and Settlement. Each section includes information from various geographical regions in America with information pertaining to one of the specific sections above. Each section gave a comprehensive look at the main topic in a way that was easy to understand as well as

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2. Describe the similarities and differences between English Colonies established in the late 1600s (p.82-83) 4 restoration colonies, proprietorships, were granted by King Charles II: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Carolina All colonies had the idea of restoring monarchy Proprietors ruled the colonies as they wanted with the consideration of the English law Most colonies followed the Church of England’s teaching while Pennsylvania reflected on the Quaker belief Quakers believed in “inner light” and gender equality in both religion and politics This made Pennsylvania as the most democratic and open colony among them 3.

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The British men gathered full control of the trading center present in the Americas, and created the Navigation Acts to help aid them in their tactics to take control over all trade within the Americas. The Navigation Acts were passed under a mercantilist system, and was used to regulate trade in a way that only benefitted the British economy. These acts restricted trade between England and its colonies to English or colonial ships, required certain colonial goods to pass through England before export, provided subsidies for the production of certain raw goods in the colonies, and banned colonial competition in large-scale manufacturing. This lowered the competition in the trading world for the British and caused the British to have a major surge in power, that greatly attributed to the growth of their rising empire. The British’s ambitious motives in the trading world help portray a way that the British took control of an important piece in the economy of all of the other nations present in the colonies in the time period, and shows another leading factor in the growth of the British empire.

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In Colonial America, during the 1600’s and 1700’s, there were religious, political and geographical changes which resulted in democratic and undemocratic changes. Religion had a big impact on Colonial America. Maryland had to pass the Act of Toleration because too many people were not able to exercise their religion freely. (document 1) The act stated that nobody in Maryland who exercises their religion will be embarrassed and is free to do so willingly, however this act only applied to Christians.

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In the 1600s many emigrants from England came to settle in North America. Most of the English at the time were Christian, and one of the several reasons to explore was to spread the word of God. Most of the documents mention how the new colonists must serve their God and keep themselves holy and to not indulge in temptations that would stray them from their original goals. However, by the 1700s the distinct group that settled in the New England region was split into two groups. The split of the two groups came from gold diggers, the temptation of gold overweight their original goal, thus causing the group to split into two groups, the Christians and the Gold Diggers.

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Back in the 17th century Europeans were traveling to the New World for many reasons, such maybe for profit, like planting tobacco, those would be the colonist who would settle in Virginia. The people of the Plymouth Plantation came to the colonies, because of their children losing touch with their British roots while living in Holland. “ We were all ignorant, and supposing to make our passage in two months, with victual to live. ”(Smith 3) Everyone who travelled to the New World faced hardships that were very hard to endure, but it was “God’s will”.

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The English established posts in the Hudson River Valley and, allied with the Iroquois, engaged in a fierce competition with the French traders (allied mainly with the Hurons) for control of the trade in the central interior region. Until the early 18th century most of the latter were organized as independent proprietors or partnerships but, as the Montreal-based trade expanded further into the continental interior, increasing amounts of capital were required and a number of larger organizations were formed. Most of these were financed by wealthy Montreal "bourgeois", some of whom organized small companies to lease trading posts and hire workers to voyage west each spring with trade goods and bring back furs in the fall. (Some historians speculate that these fur-trading groups, largely concentrated in Montreal, constituted the beginning of a local, French Canadian business class, the further development of which was cut short by the British conquest in the 1760’s.) The trade goods they used were usually obtained through other Montreal merchants, some of whom also acted as intermediaries in marketing the furs in France.

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They were able to grow this money crop in abundance. It was a hit! Jamestown is famous for being the first settlement and is still there today.

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The written language that the natives had never truly developed kept these people in the past. And finally the dangerous and deadly diseases brought by explorers and settlers proved to be a huge weapon in winning over America. Europe became the powerful ruler of the world because of the ideas and advantages, “accidental gifts”, that they had received

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European exploration was brought on by the three G’s: God, gold, and glory. People wanted to spread Christianity whether it be Catholicism or Protestantism, while explorers such as Cortes were looking for gold to get rich and glory to get famous. This age of exploration was able to occur because of technological advances such as the caravel, cannons on ships, more advanced cartography, and the magnetic compass. The impact exploration had on the natives of the New World was changes in the natives culture, enslavement of the native people, and a massive population decrease.

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Originally, during Colonial times, policing in the United States consisted of little more than night watches. These watches weren’t very effective, as watchmen often drank or slept on duty, and many of the volunteers were only there as a way to get out of military service or helping with the watch as a form of punishment (Potter, 2013). It wasn’t until 1838 that the city of Boston established the first formal organized police force in America. Other cities soon followed, and by the 1880s, all major metropolitan areas had a formal police force. These changes took place largely due to the rapid population growth in American cities.

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The French colonies in North America did not attract many settlers; therefore the French also enslaved Native Americans in farming and mining. The French exploited existing inter-tribal alliances and rivalries to establish trade with the Huron, Montagnais and the Algonquis. This tribe then competed to be the exclusive intermediaries between other Indian traders who also lived along the St. Lawrence River and up to the Great Lakes. Native Americans did the majority of the work, tracking, trapping and skinning the animals. The French traders then exchanged textiles, weapons and metal goods for the furs of animals.

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The southern colonies were under English rule, and they didn 't want any of their goods to be traded away to any other country other than England. This created a problem resolved by the Navigation Acts, which restricted the colonies ' trade to only England. Soon enough, European planters developed vast sugarcane plantations, and England knew exactly who to trade with. The West Indies as well as Brazil. This brought a lot of success to the English economy, and since they prospered, they became lenient towards the colonists in America.

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