New World Dbq Essay

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Imagine being an Englishman living under Queen Elizabeth I control. Not being able to do what you want or not being able to practice your own religion. Instead of having to be controlled like a slave and have to follow a ruler. people from England traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to gain freedom to the New World. The journey was a very long and tedious with exciting expectations of what the new life in the New World was going to be like. Once the colonist got there the reality sank about settling with the natives. Before Amadas and Barlowe set sail into the New World, they were granted all sorts of resources to help them survive as said Document 1, “This realm shall receive Oade, Oile, Wines, Hops, Salt, and most or all the commodities that we receive from the best parts of Europe, and we shall receive the same better cheape, than now we receive them, as we may use the matter.” The colonists spent many days on the ship trying to find new areas to explore addressed in Document 2, “The second of July, we found shoal water, where we smelled so sweet, and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst …show more content…

of some delicate flower garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be far distant: and keeping good watch, and bearing but slack sail, the fourth of the same month we arrived upon the coast.” While the colonists may have found the coast, it was difficult for them to find an area to anchor the boat to explore as said in Document 2, “We sailed along the same a

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