1. When Columbus set out for the New World, he set out with the goal in mind that he would reach the famous Asia, in which Marco Polo inspired him to do, and make an enterprise in the Indies using spices of the area. On his travels to Asia, he veered off and never reached it. Instead, he reached the Bahamas and named it San Salvador which means "Holy Savior" in Spainish. Soon after that, he reached America in which he claimed land in the name of Spain. Columbus tried to make a colony of the land in which is claimed but failed, as was imprisoned for his poor leadership.
2. The events that led up to the Age of Exploration and Discovery included improvements in technology and the seeking of Gold, God, and Glory. Now that europeans had invented boats like caravels that could sail in shallow waters, and better navigation tools, that had all that
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they need to set sail in search of new lands. Most of these voyages were driven with Gold (attain fortune), God (convert others towards God), and Glory (Regoniztion for finding new lands) in mind. 3.
The English established colonies mainly because the people of England were either being prersucuted due to religion, money affairs, or simpliy wanted to start a new life. It also benifited the main country since they could use the colonies resources as they wished.
4. Plymouth : America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Separatist Puritans in December 1620. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom, or to find a better life.
Massachusetts Bay: The Massachusetts Bay colony was established by the Massachusetts Bay company as a new start for those who wanted to practice their Puritain religion.
Rhode Island: The Rhode Island colony was established by Roger Williams after he was banished from Massachusetts colony after clashing with the Puritains about separation of church and state. Founded Rhode Island colony (Providence) and made it so regardless of you religion, you were allowed to partake in the government.
Connecticut: The Connecticut colony was founded in 1635 by Thomas Hooker and his followers for political and religious freedom after a disagreement with Massachusetts
Bay. 5. New France: New France was founded by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and named "New France" as a testement to France. New Netherlands: New Netherland was the first Dutch colony in North America. It was founded by Henry Hudson and was used as a trading by the Dutch. Unfortunalty, was lost by Peter Stuyvesant against the English. 6. The Pennsylvania colony was founded by William Penn and other Quakers for religious freedom. The Georgia colony was founded by James Oglethorpe for relief for poor English people.
The majestic ranges of western North America – the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, the cascades, and the Coast Ranges – arose more recently.
Both the colony of Massachusetts and Virginia were founded by companies looking to make money off the New World, but the founding of Massachusetts was motivated more by religious goals and family dynamics. Erin Bonuso, author of “Colliding Cultures”,
Spain’s initial goals were to discover gold or other mineral wealth, explore the new world, spread Catholicism, and overall, continue Christopher Columbus’s goal of finding passage to the east.
New Haven and Connecticut were two other colonies founded exclusively for Religious purposes. Many of the Separatists in Massachusetts felt that the religion was too liberal inside of the colony. They felt that the beliefs were not being enforced enough and that the people were not living through literal interpretations of the Bible. These Separatists further separated themselves from Massachusetts and formed a new colony, New Haven.
America. In 1607, a group of merchants, known as the Virginia Company, settled at Jamestown, Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay (Divine, 72); while Puritan leader John Winthrop, stationed himself and his followers at Massachusetts Bay in 1630. (Divine, 90) Although both settlements started off relatively the same, the greater success of one over the other has caused continuous debates between many, including the descendants of these early Americans. Some might argue that the Virginia Colony was more successful than the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of the Virginia colonists’ motivation and interest in profit (Divine, 76). However, when efforts for income proved futile, this and survival became the colony's only interests. Therefore, Massachusetts proved itself to be the stronger colony and the most successful, as a result of its community development and social advancement, its economic growth, and the positive influence the government had on the Massachusetts Colony.
During the 1600’s, people living in England wanted to make a better life for themselves so they left to explore a new land. Upon arrival, they formed colonies. Two of the three colonies formed were New England colony and the Southern colony. Though these people wanted to change their way of living from England, these colonies had different viewpoints on how they wanted to live their lives once they arrived in the new world. Things like climate, education and religion played a major part in their economic growth.
Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut colony in 1633. The Connecticut colony was founded to start a democratic government.
Between 1607 and 1733, Great Britain established thirteen colonies in the New World along the land’s eastern coast. England’s colonies included Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Though the colonies were classified as New England, middle or southern colonies, the colonists developed a unifying culture. With this new American culture, the colonists throughout the colonies began to think differently than their English cousins. Because colonial America displayed characteristics of a democratic society and, therefore, deviated from England’s monarchic ways, it was established as a democratic society.
Separatists sailed on a ship called the Mayflower, which blew off course, and landed in what is today massachusetts. Due to fear, they decided to establish their community there. In 1620 , half of them died and the other returned to England. Puritans wanted to formalize Massachusetts as a royal colony and colonize it themselves. It was formalized in 1629 under the Massachusetts Bay Company .In 1634, many people in Massachusetts denied the absolutism of puritan domination, they ;however, did not reject the religious nature of the colony. Due to Massachusetts prosperity from the cultivation of grains and cereals , small towns appeared throughout Massachusetts: Maine , New hampshire, connecticut and rhode island.
The original colonists of New England were the Puritans. Initially, the Puritans departed for Denmark after being offered protection. However, Denmark was a Protestant nation: religious maltreatment was raging in England between the Puritans, the Church of England, the Catholic Church, and other Protestant churches. The Puritans wanted religious freedom, so they left for the New World in the Mayflower in September 1620. After the colonists arrived at Plymouth in the New World, they immediately set up governments and villages that revolved around the General Council. The Puritans sought to re-form society in the style they thought God rightly envisioned it to be plan...
In the year 1630 during the reign of King Charles the first, Puritans came to the New World. The first group of Puritans to land in New England, led by John Winthrop, traveled overseas to form a new, pure church and have religious freedom their way. The Puritans started out with just nine hundred people, but quickly grew to over twenty thousand. They began by settling in Boston, Massachusetts, forming the Massachusetts Bay Colony, an economically successful colony. They soon spread to form and settle Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Their religious beliefs had an extreme influence on the development of New England and played its part in creating one of the first forms of democracy in the New World. John Winthrop wanted himself
King Charles gave 8 noblemen a large tract of land that they name the Carolinas named after the person who gave them this land. In order to keep their land going they tried to get settlers to settle there but that did not work out so well. In August 1669, 3 ships left with the first settlers. Each paid 500 pounds for their settlement. That’s when they had founded Charlestown, and within 2 years there were 271 men and 69 women. The proprietors of the settlement set up a government called the Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas. One of the authors of the Constitution was John Locke. The growth of the Carolinas was very slow mostly because the area was swampy and many people came down with malaria. The proprietors of the colony wanted to offer a large part of the land to a small
The pilgrims were originally headed for Virginia; instead they landed in Massachusetts, first at Provincetown and then at Plymouth. The pilgrims led by William Bradford landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 seeking religious freedom. They agreed to abide by the Mayflower Compact in which they promised to obey the laws that they would create together, setting the precedent for participatory government.
King Charles the first founded the Carolinas in 1629 and named the colony after himself. Carolina derives from the Latin word for Charles (Carolus). Originally, the colony was much larger and covered both Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee. Immediately, differing ideas and arguments broke out among the leaders of the colony. In 1712, North Carolina seceded from its southern half when the Lords Proprietors made Edward Hyde governor of North Carolina and not all Carolina. It was officially recognized as separate colonies in 1729. Often times, we think of the founders of our country as intelligent and divinely inspired. From the details of the founding of South America, we can see that everything does not go as smoothly as history would like to paint it.
Richard Mather and John Cotton provided clerical leadership in the dominant Puritan colony planted on Massachusetts Bay. Thomas Hooker was an example of those who settled new areas farther west according to traditional Puritan standards. Even though he broke with the authorities of the Massachusetts colony over questions of religious freedom, Roger Williams was also a true Puritan in his zeal for personal godliness and doctrinal correctness. Most of these men held ideas in the mainstream of Calvinistic thought. In addition to believing in the absolute sovereignty of God, the total depravity of man, and the complete dependence of human beings on divine grace for salvation, they stressed the importance of personal religious experience. These Puritans insisted that they, as God's elect, had the duty to direct national affairs according to God's will as revealed in the Bible. This union of church and state to form a holy commonwealth gave Puritanism direct and exclusive control over most colonial activity until commercial and political changes forced them to relinquish it at the end of the 17th century.