English Colonization Ftw!
At the start of the seventeenth century, England made its first successful efforts for several reasons. Even though we were trying to gain independence from our ‘Mother Land’, we owe a lot to them. Englishmen conquered the new world, while other European countries failed at trying to colonize the Eastern section of the United States. The English set up different goals for colonies, sent over thousands of convicts over from England, developed a fur trade, and even a frontier of exclusion.
The English created colonies and set up goals or tasks for each separate one. Though many of the colonies set themselves up for freedom of religion practices, a few still were used for trade and goods. Setting the goals helped each colony work together in their own ways…even with slavery in play. Freedom of religion gave them more of an open mind of differences. Eventually, England’s prisons became over-populated with convicts of petty thefts. Between the late 1610’s and the American Revolution, England sent roughly around fifty thousand convicts to North America to settle their sentence there.
One of the earliest and most important industries in North America was the fur trade. For three hundred or so years, it has played a huge role in the development of Canada and the United States. During the 1600’s, English settlers started a fur trade in what we now know today as New England and Virginia. Later on, the developed an alliance with the Iroquois Indians; this extended their area from Georgia up the Atlantic coast to Maine.
The new world fell into two categories; frontier of inclusion and frontier of exclusion. Colonists created a frontier of exclusion, trying to keep intermixing of cultures out. Indians viewed the land as nature and beauty, while settlers view it as profit. Frontier of inclusion would’ve allowed the two cultures to mesh together. They kept this from happening so other colonists wouldn’t think outside...
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