In 1607, the London Company of England began as a business venture , by a joint stock company, to provide them with raw materials, from the southern tributaries in North America (lecture, 24 Oct 2012). The London Company received a charter from King James I, to launch an expedition to colonize Virginia (textbook, pg.29 ). There were 144 settlers (primarily men) who set sail for America and only 104 of them survived the journey. They landed on the northern east coast of America, on a peninsula, in the Chesapeake Bay, which they named Jamestown. As it turns out, the colonists poorly selected a site inland, which they believed would provide them security from the natives (textbook, pg.
Many states had bill of rights and also required to have annual election of legislators. While the U.S. had to create a new government system, the people were far from the united. The new states chose a confederation as their first government, which was a loose union of state where the federal level and state level exist. The Articles of the Confederation was finished in 1777, and was finally completed by the last state, Maryland, on March 1, 1781. The articles of the confederation were America’s first constitution.
Political development, religious development, and social development in the British North American colonies fostered their experience in and expectation for self-government. Governments in the colonies developed quickly. In Virginia representative assemblies were formed and developed into a bicameral legislature which became a trend in all of the Royal Charters. Documents like the Mayflower Compact set up the process of majority rule. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut became the first constitution.
In the early 1600’s, many emigrants began to settle on the eastern side of the New World. Even though all of these emigrants came from England, they ended up evolving into two different societies. The Puritans landed in the New England, to escape from the Anglican Church and branch off from it. The other English settlers landed in the Chesapeake region, to achieve great success. Even though they both came from England, they ended up evolving into two different societies because of geographic, religious, social, and economic differences.
After Pontiac’s Rebellion, Reverend Thomas Barnard had created his sermon in 1763 to be about his feelings towards England gaining full control over the colonies. He says that since
Analysis #2 The seventeenth century brought new emerging colonies all along the east coast of the New World. Each colony had its own way of governing, as well as an approach to handle the Native Americans, who were regarded either as a beneficial asset to have or an unnecessary obstacle to overcome. Two of these colonies, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, had contradictory views on the Indians who inhabited the land before them. The government in Rhode Island was set on the idea of uniting all under one king, both Indians and colonists, and doing whatever it took to do so. On the other hand, the inhabitants of Pennsylvania dealt their Indians more or less as equals.
In comparing the two writings of similar theme from two sources displaced by both time and audience, a background of the establishment of each organization serves as an initial point of reference. The House of Burgesses was established in 1619 as a representative body to govern in a legislative assembly and was created by the Virginia Company to make conditions more amenable by encouraging English craftsman to settle in North America. The Virginia Company set up a system of self-government which was composed of an appointed governor from
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of representatives that would meet annually in Jamestown to make laws and elect the governor. Also the colonists wanted to separate church form state creating a secular government, because the colonists had different views that would end most controversies. They did this to “establish one equal and uniform government over all Virginia” and “provide just laws for the happy guiding and governing of the people there
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
Additionally, colonial America spread throughout Atlantic World and in time converted many of these indigenous groups and slaves. Yet, in many cases the conversion of the indigenous people backfired on them. Many took up arms against the colonies, fighting in what they believe was true and dear to them. Despite the failures within these groups, the Atlantic World developed through the interaction among them, through the roles of religion, race, and