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New England's urban, industrial economy transformed from the beginning of the early national period (c. 1790) to the middle of the nineteenth century, but its agricultural economy did, as well. The agricultural landscape of New England was defined overwhelmingly by subsistence farming during this period. [ 33 ]
This war was the single greatest war to occur in seventeenth century Puritan New England and is considered to be the deadliest war in the history of New England. [16] King Philip's War began the development of a greater European American identity, which fractured almost all economic activity between English colonists and the Indians in the area.
By the end of the 17th century, New England colonists had created an Atlantic trade network that connected them to the English homeland as well as to the Slave Coast of West Africa, plantations in the West Indies, and the Iberian Peninsula. Colonists relied upon British and European imports for glass, linens, hardware, machinery, and other ...
Revolutionary New England, 1691–1776 (1923) online Archived October 17, 2020, at the Wayback Machine; Anderson, Fred. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War (UNC Press Books, 2012). Andrews, Charles M. The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths (1919), short survey by leading ...
A seventeenth century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France while its interior is rendered New Belgium, New Netherland and Iroquois Confederacy. The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England."
The economy began with subsistence farming in the 17th century and developed with greater diversity and an increased focus on production for distant markets, especially the British colonies in the Caribbean. The American Revolution cut off imports from Britain and stimulated a manufacturing sector that made heavy use of the entrepreneurship and ...
Starting in the late 17th century, in southern New England and parts of Long Island, Native Americans were increasingly pulled into an exploitative debt-peonage system designed to control and assimilate Native American people into the dominant culture as well as channel their labor into the market-based Atlantic economy. [51]
The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies together spawned other Puritan colonies in New England, including the New Haven, Saybrook, and Connecticut colonies. During the 17th century, the New Haven and Saybrook colonies were absorbed by Connecticut. [24]