With the Middle Ages in its prime years, Europe remained a fairly unadventurous civilization from 500-1500 A.D. With subsistence farming prevailing and commerce being limited, merchants keep their affairs fairly domestic, failing to consider their international capabilities. But as Europe graduall...

DBQ: New England vs. Chesapeake Region There are many different reasons why we are here today. The best explanation is probably due to the two English groups that first came to the New World in search of better lives, who later on were known as the...

Although Spain and Portugal appeared to be leaders of the exploration of the New World, it was clear that England was the most successful and its colonies the most profitable in the New World by the 17th century. England's reach extended to nearly all the land along the coast of the Atlantic O...

The American Revolution was by far the most important war in the history of the United States. The war gave the original 13 colonies their freedom from Great Britain and started a new country, the United States of America. Three leading causes of the American Revolution are new Enlightenment ideas, ...

Massachusetts is one of the original 13 colonies, laying claim to the Pilgrim's landing and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the first battles of the Revolutionary War--Lexington and Concord. Native Americans were living in Massachusetts long before Europeans arrived, and among them were the Wampan...

A New Society Between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself. Changes in religion, economics, politics, and social structures illust...