The History of the 13 Colonies: Their Importance and More...
The 13 colonies have a great importance and deep history. It started off with one idea: exploration. Spain, France, The Netherlands, and England were the first colonies to explore the New World. They came for several reasons, some of them being trade routes to Asia for gold, spices, and other riches. Many of them were also searching for a northwest passage. After explorers settled out to find their riches and paths, they stumbled across what is now America. Deciding that they could use the new, fresh land for settlements, farming, and other helpful deeds, people were sent to explore and find land suitable for their doings. People strived to settle down as soon as possible, but the competition they were avoiding had finally gotten to them, because soon, skirmishes broke out not only within the separate countries, but with some of the Europeans and the Native Americans as well. Native Americans were eventually pushed further west even though they had lived there for centuries, even helping the French and Dutch in return after they had newly arrived. The Native Americans seemed to be slowly forgotten as more competition arose.
England seemed to be the slowest to settle down or even explore. Fortunately for them, though, they had just started when the fighting had died down. One of the reasons for delay was due to religious policies. Because the Roman Catholic Church had most of the power at first, it was hard to switch from Protestant to Catholic, and back and forth. Soon, many people took sides and moved away from England eventually when the religions got even more strict than they already were. Many people moved to the Netherlands, but then decided on moving to the New World because they didn't wan't their children to grow up Dutch. After moving to the New World, the new settlers found that settlement was harder than it seemed. Settlement started off in the central west (Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia), failed, and started again north in present day Massachusetts. Soon, it traveled along south, changing as it moved. By the time change spread down to Georgia, religious freedom was not fought for, it was just there. The new colonists were very different from how they started off, passing those traits on as time flew to us, indirectly establishing our present today.
England seemed to be the slowest to settle down or even explore. Fortunately for them, though, they had just started when the fighting had died down. One of the reasons for delay was due to religious policies. Because the Roman Catholic Church had most of the power at first, it was hard to switch from Protestant to Catholic, and back and forth. Soon, many people took sides and moved away from England eventually when the religions got even more strict than they already were. Many people moved to the Netherlands, but then decided on moving to the New World because they didn't wan't their children to grow up Dutch. After moving to the New World, the new settlers found that settlement was harder than it seemed. Settlement started off in the central west (Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia), failed, and started again north in present day Massachusetts. Soon, it traveled along south, changing as it moved. By the time change spread down to Georgia, religious freedom was not fought for, it was just there. The new colonists were very different from how they started off, passing those traits on as time flew to us, indirectly establishing our present today.
