Name Date CHAPTER 4 Summary CHAPTERS IN BRIEF The Atlantic World, 1492–1800 CHAPTER OVERVIEW Starting in 1492, the Spanish built a large empire in the Americas, but the native peoples suffered. In North America, the Dutch, French, and English fought for control. England finally won. The labor of enslaved persons brought from Africa supported the American colonies. The contact between the Old World and the New produced an exchange of new ideas.
Settlers of The New World: Chesapeake vs. New England During the seventeenth century over half a million people emigrated from England to North America. The settlers left England for many different reasons. English settlers landed in Chesapeake and established the Jamestown colony and later experienced a tobacco boom. Other English settlers arrived in New England at the height of a religious movement. This essay will compare the Chesapeake and New England settlers’ reason for emigration, economies, demographics, religion, gender roles, and relationships with the Indians.
Unlike Virginia Colony the only way you could become a freeman in Massachusetts Bay Colony was membership in the Church, not land ownership like The Virginia Colony. Agriculture played a dominant role in Virginia Colonies development. Massachusetts Bay Colony was by the water which was great for trading but their land was not suitable like Virginia Colonies land was to grow their crops. Developing Crops created a huge demand for slaves in the Virginia Colonies. Slave trade was significant in the Massachusetts Bay Colonies as well.
The Colonies were described as “melting pots”, because many different types of religions were settled there. Whereas, in England there was no religious tolerance and only one society of churches flourished throughout the whole country, which were the Anglicans. In Rhode Island people were given total freedom to worship any god and an absolute religious tolerance was offered to the citizens. Still the Anglican and the Puritans Congregation were the two main dominating religions of the colony. Although the majority being the Anglicans and the Puritans in the colonies, there were a small number of tax- supported churches and people still considered the separation
Julio Cruz Week 8 From 1450 to 1640 the “Early Atlantic Age” a new set of regions, the Atlantic coasts of Africa, entered directly into long-distance international trade. It tells us that the chain of developments by which the Europeans gradually shifted from being peripheral actors on the world stage to chief protagonists. During this time, Europeans spread the Commercial Revolution along the western side of Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean. The establishment of Portuguese commercial activities around the coasts of Africa took place over an eighty-year period. In the Western Sudan belt of Africa between 1450 and 1640, the age of empire came to an end, but not before one more great empire, Songay, flourished.
Spanish missionaries and conquistadors sought to convert the people of the New World and establish dominance overseas. To do this, they needed the labor of African slaves, leading to another mass migration. This migration helped explode the population of the New World since so many people came to the Americas with the promise of cheap land and easy living. Migration was a heavy factor in the changes to the Native American population for this migration. The people of the Old World brought their diseases with them, which took advantage of the Native Americans inexistent antibodies toward illnesses like smallpox- which brought about massive and catastrophic population decreases for the Native Americans, about 80-90%.
He lost the Netherlands and lands in Germany. 2) What role did the Columbian exchange play in the formation of the Atlantic World? The Columbian Exchange was a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. contact between the two areas circulated a wide variety of new crops and livestock which supported increases in population in both hemispheres. Explorers returned to Europe with maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, which became very important crops in Europe by the 18th century. Similarly, Europeans introduced manioc and peanut to tropical Asia and West Africa, where they flourished and supported growth in populations on soils that otherwise would not produce large yields.
However others may disagree with the view of Secularisation such as Martin who denies the view that there was ever a ‘golden age’ of religion and he argues that the reason for higher attendance of church in the past is due to the view that it was seen as respectable to attend church. As well Davie argues that religion has become privatised and came up with the phrase ‘believing without belonging’. Gill et al renewed almost 100 national surveys on religious beliefs from 1939 to 1996. They showed a significant decline in a person’s belief in a personal god, as well as Jesus as the son of god but also the
What Caused the Civil War? From 1861 to 1865, civil war broke loose and resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of American lives; forever changing the history of the United States. The causes of the Civil War are plenty, but the three main causes of the bloodshed in America can be classified into economic, political, and moral reasons. The South’s economic strengths were largely agricultural; specifically the growing of tobacco, wheat, and cotton. Between 1790 and 1861, the year in which the Civil War began, plantation agriculture expanded, therefore, the demand for slaves increased.
Varying Views of the American Westward Expansion From 1790 to 1835 in the Southern United States Chase Burchett 1090-008 Riverview High School Sarasota, FL, USA Subject Area: History Word Count: 3171 Abstract: In the end of the 18th century in North America, the people of the United States were ready to conquer some of that wild and mysterious land that lay west of the States. Technology had made traveling a lot easier, via wagons and food supplies. The population had grown to a point where the land that once seemed to stretch to the ends of the earth were no longer so infinite. In fact, in some places in the north east, the land was quite crowded. All of these factors led to pioneers, ready to explore the Wild West.