EUROPEAN COLONIZATION IN AMERICA

European Colonization in America

European Colonization in America

Introduction

We don't study history because we make it, we study history because it makes us. Thead covering is why it is extremely significant to discover how North America was formed to this present day. It reflects the heritage of today, the distinct beliefs that live, our powerful finances, and the systems of government that run our nations. As soon as people heard about Columbus' discovery of the New World they had the dream that America was a place of unique opportunity; for liberty, abundance, security, and peace. During the seventeenth years there were diverse causes for settlement in the thirteen initial colonies of America (New England, Middle and Southern Colonies) that had numerous influential people that contributed to these settlements.

Discussion and Analysis

Utopia, a book in writing by Sir Thomas More in 1551, which recounted humanity on an imaginary isle allegedly found out by a companion of Americus Vespucius in the waters of the New World. Though the Utopians dwelled snugly sufficient, they scorned the mere accumulation of material things, and while all were expected to keep engaged, no one was oppressed or overworked. They relished complete flexibility of considered but were very cautious not to outrage one another. True lovers of calm, they went to conflict only to fight back their friends and thereby ensure their own safety. In giving such a image of an perfect community this publication convinced many persons of European nations that the New World would be a very sensible utopia. 1 What they didn't know was that they would be facing great challenges as they attempted to colonize the new land, challenges that would push them away, back to their homeland or ones that they would overcome and eventually build prosperity upon.

New England Colonies

The right to colonize this area, between the forty-first and the forty-fifth parallels, had passed to the Pilgrims who founded the Plymouth group of merchants in 1606. Among the early Pilgrims was a assembly of Separatists, members of a fundamental devout movement that broke from the Church of England throughout the 16th and 17th centuries because they liked to escape the religious controversies and financial problems of their time. Many of them were commanded to the Netherlands, to escape devout persecution in England.

The voyage was financed by a assembly of London investors who were pledged produce from America in exchange for their aid.

At this time The Mayflower Compact was put into place. The Mayflower was at first just a merchant's ship. Even though it was a small sized ship they weren't reluctant to fill it to its full capacity with passengers for its voyage to America. The situation were exceedingly rough while the climate situation were unchanging storms. In awful climate lots of travellers were packed simultaneously down underneath the deck for weeks at a time where it was rather literally impossible to clean, prepare food, or even change piece of cloths. As a outcome of the bad weather they set ...