King Henry's Life In Colonial America

December 17, 1610, winter has dawned upon the isolated colonial village in Main, Colonial America. Women and children anxiously wait in their cold, chapped wooden cabins encased with sheets of ice and snow for their husbands and fathers. There is no food. The cries of young children, infants, and toddlers fill the emptiness in the cold, wet, air. In one of the very few southern cabins of the village, a Mother tries her very best to keep her child from having to endure the pain of hunger by feeding him several dry, bland, biscuit crisps she managed to save from her previous home back in Buckingham, England. “Do not cry little one!” the mother said, “Your father and I came here for a better life; that tyrant of a king would have would have left

When word spread throughout our shanty neighborhood about the new world, we were promised, freedom, riches, wealth, and abundant happiness. These are un-given rights under the rule of King Henry. we would never miss an opportunity like this. We want you to live freely!" This is just one example of the many lives lead by colonist living in colonial America during the Brtitish Colonizaiton before this nation became an Empire. A land of opportunity and freedom of choices is what attracted foreigners and immigrants to this country, and still does to this day. In order to maintain a peaceful and prospering society, A "-government of the people, by the people, for the people..." (Gettysburg Address, Lincoln 586) is what a successful country need. Many government powers around the world hold their citizens responsible for many things, such as paying taxes to help support the economy, serving the military for defensive purposes , or at least cooperating with the law. As a natural instinct, most people expect something in return, and the law itself assigns duties for the government to its

Most governments enforce the law by organizing a police force to protect citizens from one another, while also banding together a military to help protect by defending the country from outside forces. For this reason, most governments automatically have the responsibility of running and commanding a military that can repel invasions or even battle the country’s interests abroad. During the British Colonization, for example, “At that time the main problem for the Americans was to invent a strategy that would beat the Indians at their own game of lightning raids against defenseless settlements and of ambushing columns of men marching in European formations.” (McCarl 1). In order to have people feel obligated to help defend their country, they should feel as if their country defends