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2 lut 2021 · The colonies were absorbed into a single group under the Dominion of New England in 1686 CE under James II of England (r. 1633-1688 CE) who was concerned with their growing independence and economic power.
28 mar 2008 · From 1611 to 1618 the colony was ruled with iron discipline, with a detailed plan for all economic operations. All land was to be owned by the company and farmed collectively. The workers, all men, were to be treated as bound servants of the company for their specified terms.
Summary. For most of the sixteenth century, the landholding and trading classes of northwestern Europe imagined the New World, based on the example set by the Spanish and Portuguese empires, as a field for conquest, plunder, and dominion.
The New England and the Middle colonies largely supplied their labor needs through a combination of family immigration, natural increase, and the importation of bound European workers known as indentured servants.
23 godz. temu · The duke’s interest in the colony was chiefly economic, not political, but most of his efforts to derive economic gain from New York proved futile. Indians, foreign interlopers (the Dutch actually recaptured New York in 1673 and held it for more than a year), and the success of the colonists in evading taxes made the proprietor’s job a ...
After the initial Pilgrim colonization of Plymouth, which began in 1620, large numbers of Puritans traveled to New England during the so-called Great Migration, from 1630 to 1642. During that period, approximately 21,000 English men, women, and children moved to Massachusetts.
24 lip 2012 · General Overviews. The studies included here trace important themes in the development of the British American economy from earliest colonial settlement to the end of the 18th century. Each offers a particular argument about the causes and consequences of economic development.
