Category: History - American
Woodrow Wilson named the first volume of his _History of the United States_ "The Swarming of the English." We might go further and compare the colonization and expansion in the New World to a fissioning process in which individual atoms are torn loose from a former pattern of...
The significance of the treaty lies in the fact that the Indians were to be treated as equals, with equal rights to live on the land with the English and to enjoy the rights of...
3. Chapter 3In England the Privy Council heard the charges against Harvey and his defense. None of the accusations stood up, and he was able to show why the Council had private reasons to d...
5. Chapter 5Virginia's most important frontier region in the 1650's was the area along the Potomac River, although settlement went on simultaneously westward up the James, York, and Rappaha...
2. Chapter 2But all was not well in the government of the colony. Harvey found the Council members constantly opposing him, disputing his authority, resisting his attempts to administer equ...
1. Chapter 1Woodrow Wilson named the first volume of his _History of the United States_ "The Swarming of the English." We might go further and compare the colonization and expansion in the...
6. Chapter 6Some historians have seen the election of Berkeley as the signal for a royalist purge of the Parliamentary influences that were thought to have existed in the colony since 1652....