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After Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and discovered the New World in 1492, sailors from many European nations set out west on voyages of discovery. Europeans were curious about these new lands, but they were also determined to find...

When the Europeans began their colonization of the North American continent after 1500, one of their goals was to convert the native peoples to Christianity. The Spanish in the Southwest and the French in the North brought Catholic priests and friars...

. The Europeans and Africans who came to the New World brought with them ideas and attitudes about religion, society, gender, race, and power. Europeans self-consciously tried to model their new societies after what they had known before, attempting to...

In 1492 the native population of North America north of the Rio Grande was seven million to ten million. These peoplegrouped themselves into ap-proximately six hundred tribes and spoke diverse dia-lects. European colonists initiallyencountered Native...

The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies in North America which rebelled against British rule in 1775. A provisional government was formed which proclaimed their independence on July 4, 1776, and subsequently became the original thirteen United...

When Christopher Columbus kissed the ground of the new world in 1492, he was on terra firma; five centuries later, of course, we find the great navigator on shaky ground. Under the weighty dictates of what is known as political correctness, the monumental...

THE FORGING OF THE UNION, 1781-1789 By Richard B. Morris Harper & Row. 416 pp. $22.95 IN THE considered opinion of Frederick the Great, the erstwhile American colonies, militarily triumphant to be sure but only tenuously united by Articles of Confederation and nationally governed...

Compares the Chesapeake Bay vs. New England colonies and how they developed into distinctly different cultures.

Comparing and contrasting the original 13 colonies

A comparison of the three major groups of colonies: New England, Middle, and South (Plantation). This essay focuses on economic, political, social, and religious aspects in those groups of colonies.