Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Colonial America
- Imperialist Colonies
- Portugal/Spain: colonized Africa, Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Carribbean, most of South America
- Netherlands: colonized New Amsterdam, Jamaica
- France: colonized Haiti, Lousiana, Canada
- American Colonies
- New England Colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Rhode Island
- New England: founded on religious freedoms by Puritans and Separatists (originally Anglican)
- Plymouth Colony (1620)
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630s)
- Protestant Reformation (early 1500s) started by Martin Luther (ended 1650s)
- Puritans: John Winthrop's "City on a Hill"
- Separatists: "Pilgrims"
- Economics: lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling
- Politics: local governments, town hall meetings by land-holding males, self-governing (American ideal)
- Middle Colonies: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
- Middle Colonies: diversity!
- Economics: shared traits with both north and south
- Southern Colonies: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
- Southern Colonies: founded for money (gold) by the Anglican Church
- Roanoke (1585)
- Jamestown (1607)
- Georgia: established by the English government to protect valuable cash crop land from being stolen by the Spanish
- Became a debtors colony under James Oglethorpe
- Economy: cash crops, plantations (tobacco, rice, indigo, later cotton), slavery
- Politics: elected representatives (representative democracy), rigid hierarchy