A). Therefore, they won the war but it didn’t bring them that much happiness as they thought it would. The English were controlling the eastern part of the New World until the French came and divided the land. Therefore, both countries wanted the Appalachian lands. The Indians knew about it and were angered by the Englishmen who wanted to take their land for farming.
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.
Christopher Columbus characterized the Indians as “ naïve and free with their possessions” as they were willing to share with the outsiders. Due to Columbus’ exaggerations about his discovery, Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of Spain, felt the need to aid Columbus and his expeditions more, in hopes of acquiring wealth. By the year 1495, Columbus was losing hope. His men on the Navidad Island were not able to find any gold for surprisingly they were all killed due to gang attacks on the Indians. Columbus rounded up fifteen hundred Indians as slaves, bringing a large portion of them to Spain.
· Explosion of the Maine – The USS Maine exploded in the Caribbean, and while initial reports blamed the Spanish for it, it is widely believed to have just been an internal error. The sinking was the main cause of the Spanish-American War · General Weyler – Governor of Cuba who used concentration camps to attack rebels. · Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 – Nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and gave the US the right to create and control a canal across Central America ·
Because of this decision, England changed its fighting style and had neglected their control over the colonies to focus on winning. After successfully defeating the French and their allies, the Treaty of Paris was signed. In this treaty, it stated what England, France, Spain, and the American colonies had won control over or lost. England had control of half of North America, while France had lost their control of North America. The colonies had thought they won the freedom to expand their colonies further west.
Captain John Smith (January 9, 1580 - June, 1631) was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was one of 105 settlers who sailed from England on December 19, 1606, and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and found that Smith was chosen as one of the seven leaders of the new colony. This was controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny on the voyage.
In 1776, five men, led by Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration of Independence. This important document ended all ties between the colonies and Great Britain. It stated that the United States was a free nation. The colonists vowed to fight until Great Britain gave up. The war ended in 1783.
Unlike the British, the French are friendly with the Native American Indian tribes living in America, and the French pay them for land and treat them fairly, while the British take Indian lands and don’t treat them fairly, so the French are prepared to fight the British over land. The French and Indians join forces to fight the British. Among the many attempts to unite the colonies, Benjamin Franklin wants to unite the colonies against France, this plan is called the Albany Plan of union – to unite all of the colonies. Parliament rejects this plan, and war breaks out in 1754 between the French and Indians and the British. They are fighting over power and land in the Ohio Valley.
A member of the Separatist movement within Puritanism, in 1609 he left England and went to Holland seeking religious freedom. Finding a lack of economic opportunity there, in 1620 he helped organize an expedition of about 100 Pilgrims to the New World. He helped draft the Mayflower Compact aboard the group's ship, and he served as governor of the Plymouth Colony for all but five years from 1621 to 1656. He helped establish and foster the principles of self-government and religious freedom that characterized later American colonial government. His descriptive journal provides a unique source of information on both the voyage of the Mayflower and the challenges faced by the settlers.
For example, during King William's (1689–97), Queen Anne's (1702–13), and King George's (1744–48) Wars, the French supported Algonquian raids against the English colonies, while New England's domesticated Indians and certain Iroquoian allies aided the English. In the French and Indian War, the French and their mostly Algonquian allies initially made impressive strides toward controlling the Ohio Valley, beginning with Braddock's Defeat (1755), only to be overcome by the more numerous English and their Iroquoian supporters. Indians fought as European allies in these wars to advance their own perceived interests in acquiring weapons and other trade goods and captives for adoption, status, or revenge. Until the end of the French and Indian War, Indians succeeded in using these imperial contests to preserve their freedom of