The heart of the British North American possessions up until America’s independence was the mid-Atlantic colonies, including New York and Pennsylvania. The reasons for the preeminence of the mid-Atlantic were abundant. Unlike the New England and southern colonies, the economy was not imbalanced and depended equally on commerce, agriculture, and overseas trade. This was facilitated ...
Throughout the 17th century, colonial America was growing and changing rapidly. Religion was one of the greatest influences on the growth and creation of colonies. Between the proprietary, royal, and corporate colonies the extent of religious freedom largely varied. While many corporate and proprietary colonies chose to allow for religious freedoms, several royal colonies in ...
The mercantilism that was used to govern the colonies when they were first being established, led to many problems. The British passed many laws that angered the colonist and in turn, ended up hurting England. When considering the effects of the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Act, it is clear that policies ...
Philip Larkin, an English poet famous for his “average Joe” poetical voice, wrote his poetry for the everyday man versus his contemporaries. He wanted to portray the world as it is rather than mucking it up with the artificial. He had a tendency to write about events that happened long ago as if they were ...
The United States of America started with 13 original colonies. Information about the founding states of the American country can provide a gateway into greater studies of American history. For those people who have wondered exactly what are the 13 original colonies in order, the following explanation of the colonies and their history is an ...
The French, English, and Dutch were not as fortunate as the Spanish and Portuguese about the lands they found to colonize. The territory they controlled did not have the mineral resources or the temperate climate that the Spanish and Portuguese colonies had. This required the Northern colonies to diversify economically. They could not rely on ...
Long before “the sun never set on the British Isles,” the Spanish controlled a vast territory in the New World. Within a few years, Spanish conquistadors managed to utterly destroy the most powerful American empires and replace those empires with lucrative plantations and gold and silver mines. Why did the mighty Aztec and Inca empires ...
The colonizing of North America was a perilous proposition at the best of times, of all the many dangers that could have derailed the settling of the New World a constant labor shortage was one of the more significant. The reasons were varied for settling in North America. Most of those that left from Europe ...
