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Video summary. Four hundred years ago all manner of children, teenagers, and young men and women, mainly from the poorest families, were sent, often against their will, to board ships leaving...
In the mid-19th century, Britain began the process of granting self-government to its remaining colonies in North America. Most of these colonies joined the Confederation of Canada in the 1860s or 1870s, though Newfoundland would not join Canada until 1949 .
- The Exodus (1629-41) About 21,000 Puritans, migrating from East Anglia to New England. These religious fundamentalists believed in ‘ordered liberty’: everybody had the right to live by their own rules, and the duty to live according to God’s law.
- Cavaliers and their Servants (1642-75) Some 45,000 Cavaliers drawn from English nobility and their indentured servants, migrating from the South of England to Virginia and the Lowland South.
- The Friends’ Migration (1675-1725) Around 23,000 Quakers, migrating from Northern England to the Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania, and later to the Midwest.
- The Flight from Northern Britain (1717-75) Some 250,000 ‘Borderers’, migrating from the Anglo-Scottish borderlands and Ulster to the Backcountry of Appalachia.
Aug 1, 2020 · It won independence from Britain, but then there was civil war, with the confederate south fighting to keep slavery. A lot of the British elite again found themselves on the wrong side of history.
England's late start in the colonial race was due to internal issues like religious conflicts, economic depression, and troubles in Ireland. Instead of establishing colonies, they used privateers like Sir Francis Drake to plunder Spanish ships for New World riches. Eventually, these factors led England to join the race for New World colonies.
- "Francis Drake was an explorer as well as a privateer. During his voyage around the globe from 1577 to 1580-the first commander of such an expediti...
- They didn't choose somewhere else because they needed money and they didn't have a way of stealing all the riches from ships.
- The Protestant religion was formed when the English King, Henry 8, broke from Catholicism because the religion would not allow him to divorce his f...
- At 3:26, the use of "brutal tactics against the Irish" is mentioned. One example would be the Desmond Rebellions, where English military forces loo...
- Yes there was someone that came before Columbus, and the most common answer is that the Vikings where the first to discover America. Still there ar...
- In Britain, where the it was an organ of the State, the Church of England was formed when the king, getting no cooperation from the Pope for someth...
- He broke away from the church of Rome because the church didn't believe in "divorcing". King Henry VIII wanted to separate from his wife because sh...
- they reacted with force the English navy was slowly becoming stronger from their privateers A.K.A. pirates/navy they came back by ring to attack En...
- The things you learn from this lesson may not directly help you any more than eating one healthy salad may directly help you. BUT, the habit of lea...
- You are mistaken. It was 115 years, 1607-1492=115 if my math is correct.
Jun 17, 2010 · The 13 colonies founded along the Eastern seaboard in the 17th and 18th centuries weren't the first colonial outposts on the American continent, but they are the ones where colonists eventually...
Aug 1, 2020 · "Britain put its stamp on America from the beginning. It was Britain who brought the first unfree Africans to this country and helped to start slavery in America," says Professor Cassandra...
