Essays on New England Page 2

During the 1600s and 1700s, the early colonies in the Americas had both similarities and differences. These colonies can be divided into three main regions: the New England colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), the Middle colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware), and the Southern colonies (Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina,…

The Puritans greatly influenced the development of the New England colony through their ideas and values. Originating from Protestantism, they sought to purify the Church of England and distance themselves from Catholicism. Education and Religion were highly important to them. Their impact on the social, political, and economic advancement of the New England colonies lasted…

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England By William Cronon William Cronon is a scholar from Rhodes who has a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford.  He taught history of the American West and American urban history at Yale. The main argument forwarded by Cronon in the book “Changes in the…