The Colonization Of Colonial America

Over decades, religion in America has evolved its people into a diverse country. While, many would believe the American people have always had the stability to choose which religion they would practice, it has not always been that simple. This has been apparent throughout the course of history, but especially during the sixteenth century. During the early 1600s, religion was progressing off the Eastern Shores when colonist discovered the definition of the New World’s, religious freedom. The colonist portrayed religious freedom as to choosing a colony that followed specific religious values.

- The Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphates both used religion as a way to unite their people, and as a justification for expansion. - The Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphates both used religion as a way to unite their people, and as a justification for expansion. - The Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphates both used religion as a way to unite their people, and as a justification for expansion. - The Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphates both used religion as a way to unite their people, and as a justification for

When the English started to colonize the New World, they first tried to settle at a place called Roanoke. “At the end of the first year, all of the surviving colonists get on a supply ship to go back to England.” This might have stemmed from the fact that the colonists turned on the natives that were supplying them with food to survive. John White returned to Roanoke in 1587, this time as governor of the colony. His journal from that expedition documents the increasing hostilities between the Algonquian Indians and the English settlers. In this excerpt, White relates one of the English colonists’ more devastating mistakes: inadvertently attacking and killing some of their own Indian

The missionaries were sent over here to spread their beliefs. They were Christian, so they were sent to the Americas to convert the natives to Christianity. I feel like that wouldn’t be their main priority. It was obviously important to them, but they needed the resources and land more than they needed their faith. This means that they were either merchants or explorers.

Since the beginning of colonization in North America, Anglo-Saxon Americans have continuously been moving west. Some might say that their westward colonization was destined; a right given by God. While this expedition began from the colonization of the New world, it was truly identified as Manifest Destiny in the 1840s. Anglo-Saxons saw it as their duty to spread civilization and replace darkness with light. After the second Great awakening, many truly believed that God Himself had blessed the advancement of the American Nation.

As conflicts between the catholics and the protestants became more violent, it affected the English economy. In Europe, England was known for their production of woolen cloth, and they had been successful in establishing trade companies in other Europeans countries. But, because of the increasing unemployment caused by severe religious conflicts in England, the English slowly began to look for opportunities in the Americas. Even though England was inexperienced with overseas trading, or heard that there were hostile Indians, they were still hopeful in establishing an overseas trade like the

French Catholics occupied the Great lakes region, East Canada, New York, and, after a while, the Mississippi Delta. European missionaries were to spread Christianity; they offered natives an opportunity to be “saved”. “In the context of the often brutal treatment of Native peoples by early Spanish conquistadors, many missionaries saw themselves as siding compassionately and protectively with the indigenous peoples.” In addition, Pope Paul III stated that Indians were not to be killed or enslaved; they were capable of salvation in 1537. This enlightened everyone perspective of indigenous people and this means that catholic missionaries successes in their tasks. Missionaries, who live among the Indians, left letters to give people a sense of “concern” that many held for tribal peoples.

The Age of Discovery also brought the Christianity to the New World, and works well in America, because natives of America were more easily to be converted than Muslim or other religious in Europe. In the way of colonizing the New World, individual, monarchies and churches’ greedy for profit and power ruined the humanity in some sense. Thought the Discovery of the New World was happened during the Renaissance under the influence of humanism, many behavior conquers took went the wrong direction. For instance, Spanish colonizers tended to kill all arrested natives of America, and they think Africans and native Americas were inferior to Europeans, which

Particularly, the English inhabitants seized Indian’s land and food, cornering the Indian citizens towards limiting possibilities; needless to say they ended up dispersing. James I made accusations toward the Virginia Company for carelessness and in 1624 James I made Virginia a royal colony. Originally, the monopoly for tobacco created an economic boom in the Chesapeake and enticed migrants, but ultimately diseases kept the overall population low and life expectancy short.

What I noticed most about the founding of the American Colonies was the way religion played a vital role both in their establishment and in the early stages of their development. Although MindTap for U.S. History 1st Edition, 1.2 and 2.5 both explain that the primary reason European countries began to explore and colonize was their desire to expand trade and grow their economies, we can still see religion playing an important if occasionally subtle role. In the document, Instructions for the Virginia colony written in 1606, the author states that essential to the colonies success is their ability to be one with each other and with God. As we move further through history we come to the, History of Plymouth Plantation written in 1650 by William