The Colony

The American Colonies started showing signs of strain in the early 1700’s. Until then, England was mainly focused on civil conflicts and an ongoing war with France. This allowed the American colonies to carry out their trade with little help or interference. As a result, the colonists developed a sense of independence. When England started taking actions that suggested that the colonists did not have the same right as British citizens, the American Colonists began to question the authority of…

The Northern and Southern colonies were economically similar and different in various types of ways. With the spread of their journeys into upcoming colonies in the New World, there created conflict between the colonist and the Native Americans. In both the North and South there were easier ways of building up their economies, but also some of the different types of ways were challenging and not as successful. The Northern colonies economies relied strictly on manufacturing and trade. They…

American Colonies that affected other countries and colonies in different degrees. One of the most important aspect are economical changes that made significant impacts through out the "global community" during this turbulent period. The dramatic growth of slave populations in southern colonies during 1700-1770 let slaves' masters, merchants, and the British monarchs extremely benefited from them, because they produced around 90 percents of the total British North American Colonies'…

of the New World is the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke. It has been centuries and no one truly knows what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. In 1585, around 20 years before the famous settlement of Jamestown, the first English settlement happened. This settlement was called the colony of Roanoke which is modern day North Carolina. Roanoke like most colonies had a rough start when they suffered from Indian attacks and lack of food. The colony decided to send their mayor, John White,…

baffling researchers and theorists for centuries. The Lost Colony of Roanoke came to the New World in search for a new place to call home and a brand new chance at a new life. The Roanoke Island is surrounded by land or some sort of barrier with only one clear entrance which makes it decently protected from ships. It was also plentiful in land, with vast and lush green forests going for miles. At first, it seemed like the perfect area for a new colony, but only shortly after they began to settle…

or even natural freedoms. The original thirteen colonies were no strangers to these ideas of freedom. The main freedoms being focused on are the freedoms of religion (Massachusetts Bay colony) and of economic (Georgia). However, each colony had their own notions of what freedom and restrictions. The idea that people in the economic freedom based colony is more ‘free’ than people who lived in an religious freedom based colony. Georgia was a colony founded on the ideas of economic freedom. “On…

The Lost Colony To me the lost colony basically set up for doom all the way from the beginning, they were already struggling settling in a new place with barley any resources. Something was going to eventually happen to them. Even though no one really knows what really happen to them somehow they all disappeared or there was no trace of what happened to the Lost colony. The lost colony was made up men, women, and children that came to Roanoke island with the permission from the queen at that…

from Europe to the Americas, and for the most, to start a new life. The people in the 13 colonies created a society with the surroundings and resources provided in the land. The colonists kept their religions, maintained their old traditions, and brought their culture over from Europe. Facing the new environment, they adjusted their ideals and developed new governments. The society was different in the colonies because of the slaves and the religious - there was a set religion in Europe- and…

settling a colony at Roanoke, Virginia in 1885, but within a few years evidence shows this entire colony disappeared. In 1606, King James I granted a charter to colonize Virginia. “In 1607, England finally established itself on the continent with a permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.” Fiskin pg.7. The English colonies were clustered along the Atlantic coast for trade with England in three distinct regions; New England colonies, Middle Atlantic colonies and Southern colonies. Their…

Chesapeake Colonies Colonies do not exist in present day America, however, they used to. In the very beginning of what is now known as the United States of America, colonies were one of the first settlements to be established, other than the ones established by the Native Americans. More specifically, the Chesapeake Colonies, which consists of the Virginia Colony and the Maryland Colony, were one of the early settlements created in America. In fact, the first establishment in America…