In the colonies, a large number of English Catholics immigrated to Maryland and established large colonial plantations in order to avoid the persecution of Puritan enemies. The Maryland assembly passed the Maryland Toleration Act, In order to give religious freedom to all Christians. Under the Maryland Toleration Act anyone who rejected the belief in Jesus was sent to death. This resulted in most colonies permitting the practice of different religions. Colonies such as Massachusetts were the least tolerant; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were the most liberal colonies.
Instead, Spanish rulers dictated all the policies of its New World territories. The English, on the other hand, settled quite peacefully into Eastern North America. Englishmen migrated to the New World not as conquerors but rather because they wanted independence, political freedom, and economic opportunities. Combined with England's tradition of partial representation, the English
When Great Britain governed early America they taxed the, not just because they were in debt, they wanted to make money. They also imported tobacco from America. When America went overseas to expand to Hawaii they didn’t just annex Hawaii they added all the sugar plantations on Hawaii. Also sort of like Great Britain we made money off of Hawaii’s sugar. I think that if your going to be imperialistic you have to justify your self in overseas expansion and economic boosts.
I believe that the Old World benefitted more than the new world in the Columbian exchange. The old world controlled, and owned many (if not all) of the moves that the colonies in the new world made. The old world controlled the new world, and ultimately collected many of the benefits of having colonies that own land with rich resources. The Native Americans were infected with diseases from the European colonists, they were robbed of a lot of their land, and they were forced to work on some of the colonist plantations, if not mining. When considering the exchange of animals, plants, and technology throughout this trade system it may seem as if the New World gained a lot of the information from the Old world – which in fact may be true – but
The colonies had thought they won the freedom to expand their colonies further west. As a result of the French and Indian War; the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies changed. After 1763 England had officially gained control of over half of North America (DOC A). This meant that because England had a half a nation to govern, they must change and establish laws to control this empire. As a result of Pontiac’s rebellion, England had established the Proclamation of 1763.
This sparked a seven-year war with the French, the French tried to push British colonist out of America. In order to defend the colonist in America, the number of troops increased in colonies, these troops were sent on the expense of Britain. Even though during this time the colonies were very wealthy, British taxpayers were enduring the total expense for protection. The cost of the seven-year war was nearly 150 million pounds. In this essay I will be explaining the view of the Whigs, and also of the Troy’s (the Loyalist) of the debt and how this caused many of British colonist to rebel against their own Crown in pursuit of their independence.
For example, in the Americas, the Spanish and Portuguese left a sharp influence on the colonists’ lifestyles. Those that were natively born on the Iberian Peninsula (called the peninsulares) had the highest social status, while those descended from native Iberians (Creoles) were just below them on the social totem pole. Those that were of mixed heritage of any kind, such as mestizos, zambos, or of African/native descent ranked the lowest in the new social order. Because of the forced integration of many of the natives, the social structure changed from their tribal configuration to that of a European arrangement. Likewise, in Africa, the social structure changed as a result of the invading Europeans.
Britain was, after all, the political, social, economic, and cultural center of the American colonies. Americans modeled their political institutions on British institutions; they strove to imitate British social practices; they depended on the British to buy their raw materials, extend them credit, and protect their ships. Like their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic, the colonists exalted in the achievements of Britain, closely following the accounts of military victories throughout the empire and enthusiastically participating in the rapidly expanding spheres of trade. In fact, during the eighteenth century the majority of the people who populated the North American colonies considered themselves to be Britons. At the close of the French and Indian War (1754-1760), Benjamin Franklin wrote, "No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada; and this is not merely as I am a colonist, but as I am a Briton."
NTRODUCTION During the last half of the 18th century, members of the 13 colonies(with the exception of the Loyalists and Tories) of North America came together to revolt against the mother country and eventually combining to become the United States of America. BACKGROUND The document of the Declaration of Independence was the ultimate step in an evolutionary process during which many colonists gradually stopped seeing themselves as British subjects and began to embrace the concept of self rule. After a series of victories by British forces, the Seven Years War ended the French military threat to British North American colonies. Large numbers of settlers in the Atlantic coastal colonies saw the removal of France as enabling
Slavery was established in the British colonies of the Americas to provide a cheap abundant work source, which would reproduce ensuring many years of hard labor. The continent of Africa provided an abundance of peoples to be forced into subjugation, and Africa’s political conditions made the slave trade more important to the domestic commerce and international influence. (Pg. 49) Political leaders and merchants of the slave trade in both Europe and Africa recognized the enormous monetary gain and political advantages, encouraged by the slave trade. The slave trade was no longer monopolized by the Royal African Co., therefore opening up a new market of human trade to fuel the growth of the American colonies which was dependent on the cheap forced labor to oversee the cultivation of corps like tobacco in the United States, and Sugar cane in the Caribbean Islands and its Lesser Antilles.