Colonial Age – The History of The United States Part II

In 1621, a group of English people who called Pilgrim Fathers (those who fled because of ideology at odds with the church) settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Larger colonies built by the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Instead of finding gold, Pilgrims and Puritans more interested in creating a better society, which they dubbed “the city on a hill.” Roger Williams, who was kicked out of Massachusetts, established a colony in Rhode Island in 1636.

Britain is not the only country that settled in what is now the United States. In the 1500s, the Spanish founded the fort in Saint Augustine, Florida. French settled in Canada and the region around the Great Lakes. The Dutch established a colony in New York, which they called Nieuw Nederland. Dimukimi other regions by the Scots-Irish, German, and Swedish.

Development of the colony is a bad thing for Native Americans. They lost their country, and many of those who died of variola, a disease that brought Europeans to America.

In the early 1700s, the emerging religious movement called the Awakening Movement. Awakening Movement is one of the first event in American history that is a “big move”, or something that involves a lot of Americans. Awakening Movement, along with Salem Witch Judgement, a response to the American situation at the time, and may affect the rationale used in the American Revolution.In 1733, there were thirteen colonies. Colonies are usually grouped into New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut), Middle colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware), and the South (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). New England had small farms, and are more reliant on fishing, shipbuilding, and small industries. Southern Colonies have tobacco and cotton plantations. The gardens were originally worked by workers who are willing to work a few years to pay the entrance to America and the ground, then by the slave. The colony was a small-sized farms, and is known to have diverse cultures and beliefs.

Thirteen colonies are bound to the “Atlantic economy”, which involves the use of ships for the slave trade, tobacco, rum, sugar, gold, spices, fish, timber, and manufactured goods, between the United States, West Indies, Europe, and Africa. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston is a city and major port at that time.

From 1754 until 1763, Britain and France engaged in a war called the Seven Years’ War. England won the war. French surrender to the British colony in Canada, and gave Louisiana to Spain, Spain gave Florida to England. Furthermore, Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763, which states that people living in the thirteen colonies can not be settled in the west of the Appalachians.

Awakening Movement (The Great Awakening) was pioneered by the development of the Pietism which plagued Europe and America. This movement is described as a unique wave that also color the rise of countries colony in 1740-1742. This movement became known as the beginning of the evangelical movement. There are four periods of this revival movement. Each has a characteristic spread very rapidly, led by the evangelical pastor, gave a very sharp increase in interest in religion and had a huge impact for the guilt and forgiveness toward someone. This has resulted in the evangelical church experienced a great leap forward in terms of number and bring a new religious movements and denominations (including Baptists).

Salem Witch Punishment is punishment of persons accused of witchcraft in Essex County, Suffolk, and Middlesex, in the colony of Massachusetts in the period between February 1692 until May 1693. This event is described as the danger of religious extremism and the accusation is wrong.

American RevolutionAfter the Seven Years’ War, colonists began to feel they do not obtain their rights. Besides the Proclamation of 1763, they felt unfairly treated because of the tax levied by the British government. Colonists declared “No taxation without representation”, which means they have requested that they have a voice in the Parliament of Britain. The taxes include the Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Townsend Duties (1767), and the Tea Act (1773). In 1770, the Boston Tea Party event occurs. Colonists in Boston throwing hundreds of boxes of tea from ships in Boston Harbor, in response to the Tea Act. British troops then took over Boston, which resulted in the establishment of the Continental Congress, composed of leaders of all 13 colonies. Important figures in the Congress was Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Roger Sherman, and John Jay.

In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, which states that the colonies should be independent from Britain. On July 4, 1776, thirteen colonies agreed on the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Colonists have been engaged in battle with the British in the American Revolutionary War. The war started in 1775 at Lexington and Concord. Although American troops under the leadership of George Washington’s many defeats, they won the war after the victory at Yorktown, assisted by France. Treaty of Paris was signed, and Britain pull all its troops from the United States.

Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress adopted on July 4, 1776 stating that the Thirteen Colonies independent of Great Britain. This declaration, which is mostly written by Thomas Jefferson, explained the justification or justification to escape, and the development of Lee’s Resolution dated July 2 that for the first time the U.S. declared independence. A copy of the declaration is signed by the delegates on August 2 and is currently on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC The Declaration is considered as one of the founding of the United States and the document dated July 4 celebrated as Independence Day.

Continued to Federal Periods of 1781–1815 – The History of the United States Part III (Final)