The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
From the start, the trip was a disaster waiting to happen. The voyage was delayed by the leaky Speedwell(which turned back), so ...
In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and ...
a few ears of corn; yet hunger made others, whom conscience did not restrain, to venture.” The guiding ideal of the Pilgrims was ...
Then, more soberly, as an experienced leader of his community, Bradford speculated on the very nature of the Puritan philosophy: ...
sion. As John Winthrop put it when he was leaving England and was soon to be governor of the colony, “We shall be as a city upon ...
chapter 8 “Mother England” Loses Touch A s Queen Elizabeth had made clear to Sir Walter Ralegh, the English bridgehead in the Ne ...
it would be cheaper, more productive, and less troublesome to allow them some discretion. It had its governor announce that henc ...
ulated the ambitions of politicians and merchants, created local interests, and made possible thoughts of autonomy. The course t ...
istrates” and assembled together as the colony’s first “Generall Court” or legislature. That body then appointed itself a ruling ...
ber of parishioners to New England, he concluded that he could combat dis- senters effectively only if he followed them to their ...
tions in England” to begin a sort of imperial expansion, annexing scattered settlements all the way into New Hampshire and Maine ...
“instant” merchant marine that would carry passengers and cargo to and from the New World. The second result was that in the Tre ...
did nothing but urge compliance. Unconcerned by mere words not backed by force, Massachusetts continued as before, running its o ...
royal official: the “captain generall and governor in chief.” Sir Edmund Andros took the strongest possible view of his powers a ...
advantage of official incapacity, sailing into the harbor to swap the goods they had looted at sea. Meanwhile in England, some m ...
press, wore English clothing, affected English manners, worshipped in the Anglican church, exchanged visits with English friends ...
The nearer societies, particularly the Susquehannocks, had long worked with whites as intermediaries to the more distant Indians ...
Great Dismal Swamp Cape Henry Cape Charles Williamsburg Richmond Philadelphia Petersburg Norfolk Lancaster Jamestown Baltimore A ...
Meanwhile, in London, to the astonishment of the local Protestants, Lord Baltimore won over Cromwell. Cromwell empowered Baltimo ...
Baltimore. Deciding to act first, 250 poorly armed men pulled off what amounted to a coup d’état on August 1, 1689. They marched ...
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