Early American History 1492-1800

Rachel Bata

Professor Jackson

History 131-002 Early American History 1492-1800 European colonization of what would become North America was motivated by sundry reasons, including the desire for religious liberation, profit, or a chance to commence over. The colonies were populated by religious groups seeking liberation to practice their religions without interference from England, indentured auxiliaries, debtors seeking an unsullied slate, settlers hoping to find a profit and people who were brought to America involuntarily as slaves from Africa. The establishment of European colonies in North America betokened dealing with the Native American tribes who had already lived in the area for centuries. More often than not, colonists treated

He thought that if he sailed west, he would circle the world and arrive in Eastern Asia. For seven years Christopher Columbus peregrinated around Europe probing for someone who would finance his peregrination. When he arrived in Spain, he convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to pay for his peregrination, promising to bring them many riches. He set sail on August 12, 1492 with three ships denominated the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The voyage was long and arduous and Columbus’ men were terrified that they would be disoriented at sea. On October 12, 1492, Columbus and his men discovered an island that he denominated San Salvador. Columbus did not realize that he had arrived in an incipient part of the world. He believed he was in India and he called the natives who lived on these islands, Indians. Columbus returned to the Americas three more times, each time believing that he was in India. He died cerebrating he had discovered a shortcut to Asia across the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus' voyages proved to be one of the most paramount events in history for both Europe and America. His revelation of the Incipient World led the way for the exploration and colonization of the Americas and opened a world, full of adventure, conceptions and incipient

The regimes they founded would be republics—that is, regimes without any hereditary rulers, in which all power came directly or indirectly from the people. In the eighteenth century, that was revolutionary. It might withal have been foolhardy: all the republics of past times had failed. But with a resolution and radical preface approved on May 10 and 15, 1776, well afore declaring independence, Congress had called on the states to establish incipient regimes in which “every kind of authority” under the British Crown was “totally suppressed” and all ascendancy was exerted “under the ascendancy of the