The English started the Southern Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Southern Colonies were made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Jamestown, Virginia, was the first prosperous Southern Colony in America. The surrounding area was full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and the people who came were not suitable for farming eventually killing most of the residents by winter but John Smith forced them to work harder. Saving them from starvation.…
Charleston, South Carolina, a city that has been seen by the public as the place where the American Civil War started and where Fort Sumter is located. But, ironically the first battle of the slavery induced Civil War took place in what was the slave trading capital of mainland North America. Charleston was host to an event that spanned over a century and that is the great migration of Africans to America by as many means as possible from the slave trade to piracy. Due to its geographic location and need for slaves, Charleston became the principal port for slave trading on the mainland.…
The first Europeans who had settled in South Africa were the Dutch. In 1652, the Dutch arrived in at the Cape of Good Hope. They were looking to establish a sailing station, it would allow them to sail between the Dutch East Indies and the Netherlands. The Dutch settlers became known as Boers, which in Dutch meant farmer. The Boers took over African lands and created large farms.…
SETTLING IN CHARLES TOWN Have you even moved out of country and found out it was a lot harder than you thought? Well that's how the colonists felt when they moved to Charles Town in South Carolina. Settlers found Charles Town difficult to settle on due to the different land forms, the various wildlife, Indian tribes, other colonists and land owned by others. There was also unfavorable weather, diseases, low food supply and hostility. These obstacles were difficult to the new colonists and settlers.…
During the 16th and 17th centuries the conditions in England were of great changes in both rural and urban areas. Therefore King James I granted the Virginia Company Of London - a joint stock formed by a group of merchants - the right to establish colonies in the New World. The leaders of the company sent skilled man because of the potential conflict with Spanish and Powhatan Indians, and the commanders of the voyage were Christopher Newpor, Bartholomew Gosnold, ohn Ratcliffe, and along with the crew was John Smith. However, when establishing colony in Jamestown, their expectations weren't fulfilled, and there was financial trouble, bad leadership, and non peaceful relationship with the Indians. Jamestown was named in honor of King James…
Import-ance The first records of South Carolina were recorded in the early 1500’s when the Spanish explored the coast. Three years after the Spanish explored the French came rolling through. In 1526 Spanish settlers settled close to what is now the peak of the Peedee River at Winyah Bay. Later in 1562 French settlers came and established Charlesfort.…
Middle and South America were colonized by many Spanish immigrants who hoped to find the city of gold and silver. The African Slave Trade Opens In the fifteenth century the Portuguese had the idea of selling Africans to Europeans as house slaves to turn a profit.…
The first settlement in Jamestown, Virginia had very high mortality rates. The men that first settled there were incapable of finding their own food and maintaining survival, many were used to receiving the supplies they needed and knew nothing about cultivating their own food. As time went on and the population of the south continued to grow slowly, new sources of profit were being found. There was a vast amount of land in the south and the Europeans kept on dying so they needed more people to work these fields. This is when they looked onto another method of getting the job done, gaining African Slaves.…
When European colonies started to colonize in Africa they all had one goal in mind, commercial gain. Africa possessed materials such as copper, cotton, rubber, tea and tin, these materials could not be found in Europe at the time which caused a ‘scramble’ in Africa. Britain discovered diamonds in Kimberley, located in the Transvaal, in 1872 and as a result mines were created. Also, in 1886 the Witwatersrand gold rush took place in an area known as Johannesburg, also located in the Transvaal. This gold rush lured people to mine in hopes of obtaining riches.…
Imperialism by definition is the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. Imperialism played a major role in the novel The Power of One. The Boer war is mentioned numerous times in the novel along with the separation of Afrikaners, English, and the African tribes. The first time the separation became apparent in the novel was when Peekay was purchasing his tackies before his train ride to Barberon. “Above this entrance was written BLACKS ONLY.”…
Apartheid The Europeans thought that because they have a different lifestyle or look different from the Dutch and English, they were better. This lead to Apartheid, which was a longer period of time filled with discrimination in South Africa (1948-1994). I chose this project for two reasons, one, my friend Holly who also chose this era asked me to write on this topic. Two, I was drawn deeper into the idea of two sides, one side, foreign invaders, and on the other, the inhabitants of the invaded land.…
The American South is a region with a unique culture and history. This region became home to many cultures in the early colonial period. Before the colonial period, the first settlers were the Native Americans. For hundreds of years the tribes of the American South made this region their home. They spread their culture throughout and made an influence on the first European settlers.…
There were plans underway during that time for Britain to build a railway from Cape Town to Cairo (Doc 5). Connecting a railway from Southern to Northern Africa would have linked all of the British colonies together, making it easy for trade and travel to occur. They indigenous people also became more modernized through the Germans. A German soldier said, “They must first learn what we ourselves have discovered,–to stem water and to make wells, to dig and to plant corn, to build houses and to weave clothing” (Doc 7). With more skills and access to things they can trade, a community can become more financially secure and more connected with the rest of the European world.…
The arrival of English cause "Boer war" between English and Dutch. English beat Dutch, so that the Southern African region became a English possession. Finally, English became the ruler of Southern Africa. With the victory of English, many English people who come to Southern Africa.…
Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and the work they perform. Slaves were a source of labour. When the society had more work than its own free people could do, they used to make other people do the work for them, without payment, as slaves. They were also imported once there was a shortage of slaves to do the hard labour. In war, the country that won took people from the loosing country and sold them as slaves.…