owners, and the rest of the people either owned small plots of land or were landless. It was a very hierarchical society, the opposite of the democratic North. Life revolved around the family. Birth rates were much higher in New England, and this allowed for the creation of
because empires tried to build and expand their empire by conquering others. The first empire was those of European who expanded differently because they did not conquer their adjacent territories; they conquered away from their heartland which was America. There were several categories that helped them to carve out that huge empire which were geography, motivation, economic, political, and religion. Moreover, they made a network of exchanging which was known as the Colombian Exchange, and they brought
British colonies saw a lot of diversity. This diversity saw a number of issues. Economically, they fought about controlling the Fur trade. There existed conflicting interest with the English settlers and Indians. The Fur trade was limited to native populations
potato crops all over Ireland. The wilting of all potato crops lasted five years and brought them starvation, disease, and death. This brought the immigration to North America. These immigrants from Ireland came to New York,Quebec, Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. They settled on the east coast of the United States and in the British North America.With them, the Irish brought their heritage, customs, and religious backgrounds. The potato was healthy and easy to grow in the wet soil along with the
and by oppressive governments. What the people wanted was religious freedom, the power to be in control of their trade, and social equality. The United States was the first country in the Americas to be run by non-Europeans. Their political ideas and their rebellion had an impact on the rest of the world. The North American Revolution led to the French Revolution, the Haitian, and the Latin American Revolutions. The Haitian Revolution had a big impact on the Latin American revolutions. In Haiti all
were transported to the Americas (new world) from the West African coast. The Atlantic slave trade originated from the expansion of European Empires that lacked one major resource; a workforce. Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered from diseases. However, the African labourers were used to the tropical climate and resistant to tropical diseases. Consequently, most Africans sold into slavery were destined to work on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, where huge areas of the
winters made the Patriot’s cause even more insubstantial War in the North only a few Europeans gave the rebellions of the colonists a chance Great Britain’s population was greatly higher compared to the population of the colonies → this also meant that Britain would have more wealth since they are bigger Great Britain’s army was made up of 48,000 britons (a British citizen or native) Lord North planned to capture
the Mississippi on the west, to the Great Lakes on the north, and to Spanish Florida on the south. Treaty of Paris 1783, ended the American revolution and Britain acknowledged America as an independent country. 17. Republican Motherhood: The idea of “republican motherhood” took root, elevating women to a newly prestigious rule as the special keepers of the nation’s conscience. Educational opportunities for women expanded and republican women now bore crucial responsibility for the survival of
the eve of the American Revolution, the British colonies and even their inhabitants had drastically changed. The support for opposing sides would eventually create a division between loyal British colonists and American colonists. Although there was some loyalty to Britain and disunity among the colonies, they were ultimately overshadowed by the emergence of a brand new American identity and American unity between 1763 and 1776. Many colonists in North America before the Revolution remained loyal to
Throughout English controlled North America, slavery was not only alive, but commonplace as late as the 19th century. It was legal to own, import, sell, or breed slaves in every colony during the colonial period, and the southern states especially capitalized on this fact. Slave traders would sail ships from Africa carrying hundreds of men and women, who were then sold at auction on the mainland of North America as well as some slaves being transported to the Sugar Colonies on the islands just