Before the Revolution started, the Americans formed a sense of unity and identity more than ever before. It shows in the Pennsylvania Gazette from 1754 that New England was forming together to gain sovereignty, liberty, and independence from Britain. There were many acts thrown by the British to the Americans. An example would be the Stamp Act; it was the tax on stamps and special seals. The outcome of these acts was boycotts from the colonist’s response, or letters sent to Britain demanding a stop on these unfair taxes.
The discovery of the Americas was truly an amazing event because it opened up so many options for the people living in the European nation. Many English people flocked to the Americas to live in the Chesapeake and New England region. These two regions were supposed to function as one large region. But overtime, they developed into two separate societies. The reason for this split was the incentives of the people who were going to these areas.
Jamestown and Plymouth: Joined Together but a World Apart In the early seventeenth century the English flocked to the shores of North America. Those who previously had no prospects rushed to settle the land and stake their claim. Some came for riches and power; others came to reinvent a pious covenant that was lacking in their homeland, but all came for opportunity. Jamestown and Plymouth were two such settlements that offered hope and a promise for a better future. Both colonies had similar needs such as food, shelter, and a form of commerce to sustain them.
In a chain of reaction Columbus brought Christian culture, as time passed the thought of Christianity spread to the story of Uncle Tom and that brought people hope. with the aid of Columbus he was able to spread Christianity to far regions and inspire new people to his
The Articles of Agreement of Springfield Massachusetts (1636) focused mainly on God and that all men and families that have come deserve equal opportunity. (Doc D) This created a peaceful society under God. There was no fighting between settlers creating a unified society that had a great ability to reach their goals of freedom, money, and power. The Chesapeake had not as much faith and had only hopes of personal gain and goals creating a very alienated society. The New England and Chesapeake regions had very different economies that caused them to become two distinct societies.
Many Calvinist refugees fled to Holland and Zealand from other provinces because these countries were religiously tolerant. Although William was open to the practice of free religion, he converted to Calvinism after the situations with the Duke of Alba and Philip II (479). Lastly, William and his wife, Mary, were offered by the English Parliament to be joint monarchs of now also England and Ireland (bbc.co.uk). All of these actions help support William as a powerful politique leader. Williams beliefs in religious freedom allowed the Dutch to grow socially as a country.
Maryland became known for its policy of religious toleration for all. THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620. Ten years later, a wealthy syndicate known as the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger (and more liberal) group of Puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement. With the help of local natives, the colonists soon got the hang of farming, fishing and hunting, and Massachusetts prospered. As the Massachusetts settlements expanded, they generated new colonies in New England.
Taiyyba Haroon Ms.Persico English 319 7 October 2012 Puritans Values Impact on Modern Americans In the 16th century, Puritans settled in Boston to purify and reform the Anglican Church. Puritans made their mission to spread the word of God and their law. They wanted all human beings to be purified and obedient to God. Even today, the ideal values of the Puritans, especially work, education and law have a great impact on the mode Americans. It’s because of those values that today, Americans are successful and known all over the world.
Colonization in lands such as the North Atlantic by Scandinavia, the founding of Newfoundland by Leif Ericcson, and the expansion into Baltic lands led to the addition of the Roman Catholic Church territory. Reconquests of lands from the Muslims in the Mediterranean also led to much larger expansions into the lands of Italy and Spain. One of the most important islands was Sicily, which was conquered by the Guiscard brothers and was gradually displaced of Islam with the new introduction to Roman Catholic Christianity. Another conquest was the reconquista of Spain, who was originally an independent city state but then eventually became part of the whole Western Europe Empire after the encouragement from the Roman Catholic clergy to displace Muslims in these territories. One of the most important conquests that gained land for the empire were the crusades that mounted in an effort to recapture Palestine and Jerusalem, who was then Muslim territory.
Division of the English In the early colonization of the New World, many different European colonists began to settle all throughout the Atlantic coastline which would later be divided into three regions or colonies which were the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. After going to war and flustering the Native Americans out of their own homeland, the primary origin begin to settle in, particularly between the New England colony (Massachusetts) and Chesapeake Bay (Southern colony/Virginia), and which at the time the primary descent of these colonists were in fact English spread all throughout the entire area. As time grew on, settlers began to establish governments, economies, and social classes and religion all throughout their particular