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Virginias population grew gradually during the 1600s. New settlers arriving from Europe made up for the fact that disease and difficult living conditions.
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The legal rights that Englishmen had won over centuries led the colonists to expect a voice in their goverment. The ideas of limited monarchy and represenitive goverment were dear to them.
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Native americans population was decreasing mainly cause of large numbers of Native americans had died from diseases that they cought from Europeans
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Penn arrived at his colony in to attract settlers, and he printed pamphlets in several languanges and distributed them to England and on the European continent.
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An event further boosted parliamentary power. Parliament removed King James the second from the throne and invited his daughter Mary and her husband Williamto rule.This was called the" Glorious Revolution.
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once they arrived at the coasts,captives were traded for guns and other guns. They were then loaded onto slave ships and trasported acroos the Atlantic on a brutal voyage that became known as the Middle Voyage
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From the start, religeon played a key role in the 13 english colonies. Religeous leaders set extensive rules on moral and religeous matters
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Most colonists lived on farms where large families was cosidered a advantage
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The puritans belived that towns and churches should manage there own affairs. They also belived that people should work hard and live strong and stable familes
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The colonists expected to enjoy the traditional rights of english subjects. The Freedom of the Press was the right of journalists to publish the truth without restriction or penalty
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The lives of enslaved Africans differed greatly from colony to colony, only 10% of the enslaved population lived north in Maryland. In cities of the North, they were only hired out to work as blacksmiths and house servants.
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Once again, the protests worked. The boycott hurt British merchants and manufacturers, who put pressure on parliament repealed all the townshed duties-except the one on the tea. The tax was left in the force to demonstrate Parliaments right to tax the colonies.
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The Brithish parliament passed the Tea Act. It was intended to help the British East India Company, one of Britain's most important companies.
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This battle between the colonists
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free people of African ancecestry were never a huge portion of colonial population. By the time the first census was taken in 1790
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Some scholars estimate more than 10 million enslaved africans were transported to Americas between the 1500s and the 1800s.
