HIST 2110Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Triangular Trade, Natural Resource, Navigation Acts
26 Feb 2016
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Like the southern colonies, new england and the middle colonies developed in a specific contexts. The factors that spawned these colonial experiments would go on to play a major role in shaping the path these societies took. That path was very different from the one take by the southern colonies. In 1608 a colony of puritans who have given up on england went to holland, were illegal immigrants (couldn"t be a craftsman, had to take lower paying jobs), worried they were going to lose their culture to holland"s culture. The colony got permission to go to virginia, shipped was called mayflower, horrible trip on ships due to winter, ended up off cross to cape cod. The mayflower compact was an example of the tensions between social cohesion and freedom that marked the early years of new england. Half the people died on the boat (they lived on the boat for the first year in cape.
