The Colony

A long, long, long time ago, in the old year of 1587 A.D, a group of English men were viewing the vanishing colony of Roanoke. Their family, and friends were gone and so were the Indians. No one knew what happened, or what to do. Many years later, a small car was traveling south for a vacation when they saw a sign advertising the colony. In this car there was a family. Not a massive group of screaming kids and rude teenagers, but not a perfect, never-failing group of geniuses: it was a normal,…

As early as 1650, the colony of Massachusetts Bay was a commercial success. But an inadequate supply of money put its future development in jeopardy. England themselves were in short supply and could not send gold and silver coins to the colonies. Massachusetts took matters into their own hands at this point. Boston authorities gave permission to two settlers, John Hull and Robert Sanderson to set up a mint in the capital in 1652. The two were soon striking silver coinage, shillings, sixpences,…

The Chesapeake Bay colonies and the New England colonies were both established by the English Empire. These provinces were the second and third attempts at settling and were both successful as permanent settlements. However, there were many differences between the two colonies. There are many reasons why differences occurred in the settlements, but two of the major grounds for why the colonies were completely different are: the reasons to leave England, and their politics. The causes for…

considered the Mother Country of the colonies since economic growth, expansion to America, and better communication between the English and colonists was expected. English colonies were divided in five distinct economies and traded with many European countries, mostly England. Sugar, cotton, and rum came from the colonies to Europe, while salt, spices, and wine from Europe to the colonies. However, Britain changed her policies, imposing high taxes on the colonies and limiting trade with the…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

centuries. In Kafka’s works, “In the Penal Colony” and “The Metamorphosis”, there is an emphasis on unquestionably following society’s rules resulting in flaws which accompany doing so; mainly injustice resulting from superior authority and the issue of existentialism which arises from being rejected from society, respectively. Kafka demonstrates this through an allegory of religion and the unfulfilled life of an ordinary low-class worker. In the Penal Colony, the Old Commandant represents…

What were the thirteen colonies? The thirteen colonies were a large group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the united states of America. By doing this the colonies had to go through many trials like departing from Great Britain the ones that founded them, mercantilism, slavery and many more trials like all of the battles we had to fight in to get not only our independence but…

Essay #1 The North American colonies were spread all throughout the Eastern coast. The Pilgrims, who were English farmers, settled in Plymouth in 1620 on accident (Brands, 56). They meant to go to Virginia, but because of a navigational error they ended up in what is now Massachusetts (Brands, 42). The reason they were able to survive was friendship with the local Indians (Brands,43). These Indians taught the Pilgrims how to hunt and farming techniques (Brands, 43). The Anglican colonists…

in the Colonies could include whipping, being exiled, public humiliation, being hung in a chair and dangled over a river, and even death. After many months at sea and many hardships that came their way, the “colonists” arrived to The New World and were ready to start new lives. By 1732 all the thirteen Colonies were established and started to adjust to their new surroundings. The thirteen Colonies were split up into three different regions, The New England Colonies, The Middle Colonies, and…

Since the French and Indian War had just happened, Britain was in a lot of debt, so they decided to exploit the American Colonies so they could create greater revenue to pay off the debt and regain economic stability. The debt was so huge that it made the British government fall apart, thus it lead to conflicts that ultimately caused the Revolutionary war (Kindig, 1995). The British government decided to impose a series of taxes or navigation acts on the colonists to pay off the debt (Radojini;…