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- 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.
Learn about and revise what has motivated migration to and from Britain with this BBC Bitesize GCSE History (AQA) study guide.
British America now consists of the thirteen colonies founded or developed by Britain between 1607 and 1732 , together with four provinces won through warfare - Nova scotia in 1713, and then Quebec and West and East Florida in 1763.
The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
- Early Colonisation of The Americas
- Headright System
- Migrants Return to England to Fight in The Civil Wars
- Expansion of Northern American Migration
Early colonisation was often due to economic pressures in England. Push factors led to the decision to migrate. As the English took hold of the Eastern seaboard of North America the English moving there were not all rich, expectant prospectors. Many were escaping a wretched life.
After the Glorious Revolution there was a change in migration patterns. The Headright System was introduced by the Virginia Company. This system promised 50 acres of land to anybody who paid for their transport or for that of another person. In England it was virtually impossible for ordinary people to own any land. This presented a huge opportunit...
Some migrants returned to England as the Civil Wars broke out. There was a lot of support for the Parliamentarians from Puritans in the colonies. The support was such that there was actually some fighting of the English Civil Warsin Colonial America. Following the Glorious Revolution and failure of Jacobite Rebellions Irish and Scots began to migra...
The 1700’s saw migration continue as colonisation expanded into America. Victories in the wars against Native American’s paved the way two much more land being available. Exploration in the north had led to additional trading options. Hudson Bay was taken from the French for the British. Towns and colonies had become established and the stability t...
Oct 31, 2019 · The outlook of the Anglo-Scottish borderlands profoundly shaped the culture of the southern United States in a number of important and enduring ways. First, the seven centuries of warfare between English and Scottish kings meant that Northumbria in particular was much fought over – the ‘ring in which the champions met’ – and this made ...
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