Curiosity and bravery led the English to discover the nations of America. These strong willed Europeans, determined to find to a new world, set out with high hopes and ambitions. Settling a variety of colonies along the coast of North America, the English were among the first true pioneers. After s...

The Americans: The Colonial Experience By: Daniel J. Boorstin America was not believed to be a ground for a utopian society, rather a place for a new start, more freedom, and fewer taxes. The initial group to settle the "New World" were the Puritans, "separatists" making a hopele...

Concern for Education - Free schooling was the exception, not the rule, in British colonies - Many colonial leaders had a concern for education o All major religious groups had education concerns: § Anglicans in Virginia and the Carolinas § Catholics in Maryland § Puritans in Ne...

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held from the months of May to September, at the Philadelphia State House. Representatives from twelve of the thirteen colonies attended, to debate a wide range of constitutional provisions from the Bill of Rights to the power of taxation. The issue on th...