Why were the New England settlements the least desirable to British shippers than any other colony?
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They had Horrible land
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I haven't been able to find any research that can tell us if it is definitel y so, but being a New Englander myself I can tell you that the weather is a big factor. The winters are harsh and rather depressing at times. Also there is a belief here that most of the good jobs are being taken in this region and to be able to find a decent job now or to find cheaper housing, you have to move to the apparently economically developing midwest or the southwest.
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The colonists kept pushing the natives westward while taking their land. The natives did not claim the land because they believed the land was for everybody to share. Unfortunately, the colonists won in the end because they had better weapons, and the natives knew this. :(
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From the American perspective, the New England states they wanted no part in the war at all. A town in Maine is reported to have bought gunpowder for its July 4th celebration from a supplier in New Brunswick, Canada. Likewise in Acadia they didn't want a war with the USA and kept up trade throughout the war.  \n     Now Quebec is a whole book so i'll be brief. The French called it an english war and wanted no part. When the British tried to draft soldiers in Quebec Riots broke out, people died, mayhem reigned. Many feel Quebec wanted the Americans to win. \n     Michigan was only a territory at the time, mostly farmers and fur traders who were mainly french canadian and traded with the native tribes. Washington was a world away. Many actually aided the British forces in the capture of Detroit. \n     Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky seemed to be the war mongering states. Simmering fueds between different tribes and new settlers created many "Indian Wars". These were a rough, tough breed of people always eager for a fight and a touch or three of the whiskey. Too bad no one told them it snows in Canada and they might want to bring a coat. \n     Upper Canada(Ontario) was primed and ready for the War. A Year before war was declared an alliance was formed between General Brock and Tecumseth's Northern Tribes Confederacy and they even discussed creating a Native state or country between Canada and the US. The residents of Ontario at the time were also largely "Loyalist" of British or Irish decent, or were former Americans who came north for free land grants who did not agree with the American ideals.
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The 13 colonies were all founded by European countries. Basically, the more land you had, the richer you were. So land in the Americas was important. \n\nThe Europeans came for :\n\nGold/Wealth\nGod (to spread their religion)\nGlory of the country.\n\nThey were aslo hoping to establish trade.\n\nJamestown, the 1st colony was established in, 1609.\nThe pilgrims came in the mayflower in 1620
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It was an act of treason.  Had the colonist lost the Revolutionary War those men certainly would have been rounded up and hanged.  We called these men Patriots.  In England, they were considered traitors.
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Yeah, could be the Articles of Confederation.  Or it could be the Mayflower Compact...the settlers had written that up before they even arrived.
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The intolerable acts. it closed the boston port until the tea was paid for. It also required colonists to house british troops, and gave royal officials more power.
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Don't know for sure but i know that New York was originally called New Amsterdam. It was settled by the Dutch. England won it lost it to the Dutch and won it back again. I think because it was not orginally english that is not part of New England. It also is too far south and has different culture.
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They weren't - that's the reason they had the Boston Tea Party, with the slogan, "no taxation without representation".  The British were taxing everything (including tea) but the American colonies had no say in how much the tax would be or what it would be used for.
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Technically-it was not founded by immigrants, it was founded by colonists from Britain who no longer wanted to pay taxes to the King.
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The war was a result of two major causes: a dispute over repeated violations of American sovereignty by Great Britain, and American expansionism, a desire by some Americans to expand their territory and population by conquering Great Britain's colonies.\n\nThe British colonies were lightly populated and poorly defended compared to the crowded American states to their south, and many of the settlers were Americans by birth and believed to remain sympathetic to the United States. Some Americans argued that the majority of the population in the British colonies would rise up and greet an American invading army as liberators, and that, as Thomas Jefferson suggested in 1812, "the acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent." The belief that the United States was destined to control all of the North American continent would later gain the name Manifest Destiny, but that term was not yet in use at the time of the war. However, the British did have certain advantages, such as having twice as many people and better infrastructure on the north bank of the upper St Lawrence River than the Americans had along the southern bank. Indeed for those living in upstate New York, it was easier for people and goods to travel to Kingston and Montreal, rather than New York City and other points south.\n\nMeanwhile, the United States had grievances against Great Britain for sovereignty violations in three areas:\n\nBritain's refusal to surrender western forts promised to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American War of Independence, together with allegations that Britain was arming North American Indians fighting against them on the western frontier; \nThe stopping of American ships by the Royal Navy on the high seas to search for deserters, and the impressment of seamen who had been born as British subjects but later naturalized as American citizens; and \nThe trade embargos by France and Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, which resulted in the seizing of hundreds of American merchant ships. \nIn 1795, the Jay Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Greenville with the North American Indians temporarily resolved the conflict on the Northwestern frontier; however, the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty of 1806 dealt only with trade, not impressment, and was not ratified by the United States Congress. Continuing embargoes and the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair of 1807 (which resulted in the deaths of three American seamen under attack by a British ship) further aggravated tensions between the two countries.\n\nIn 1811, in the United States House of Representatives, a loose political faction called the War Hawks, under the leadership of speaker Henry Clay, began agitating for a declaration of war against Britain, both as a response to real grievances and as an opportunity to acquire the British colonies. After a speech by President James Madison to Congress, on June 18, 1812, Congress voted to declare war. By that time, Great Britain had already revoked the restrictions on American commerce, but the news of this arrived only after war was declared.\n\nSome historians, such as Robin Reilly, have argued that the declaration of war on Great Britain by the United States was a victory for French diplomacy, forcing Britain to divert its attention and some resources from continental matters.
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there where simply four reasons\n1.the connection between colonies and Britain was very costly cause some colonies were thousands of miles away from Britain\n2.people started fearing a self government emerging\n3.the colonies themselves started to chafe against British rule and started to want to deal with there affairs alone.\n4.Finlay many Britons realized that the empire had become unwieldy and that relationships within it were a handcart rather than a gain
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i'm not quite sure what you mean, but america had the revolutionary war to break away from england. because england was basicaly trying to control them and make them pay so many different taxes that they hardly had enough money left for them selfes. also there was a law passed by england that said that they cant settle west of the applaction mouintains. and they had gained alot of land there by defeating the french in a war years before.
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Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians, though New England was always considered to be a distinct region):\n\nNew England: \nProvince of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire \nProvince of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine \nColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations \nConnecticut Colony, later Connecticut \nMiddle Colonies: \nProvince of New York, later New York and Vermont \nProvince of New Jersey, later New Jersey \nProvince of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania \nDelaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware \nCheasapeake Colonies: \nProvince of Maryland, later Maryland \nColony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia \nSouthern Colonies: \nProvince of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee \nProvince of South Carolina, later South Carolina \nProvince of Georgia, later Georgia
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Well, the early colonies didn't have techonoly, cars, music like today, movies, clothes, food, the knowledge, and the books that we have today. There are PLENTY of changes from today and the colonies. It's pretty simple if you sit down and think about it.
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Because of all the rich people that live there.\n\nA lot of people that make it in New York or Boston move or get country homes in Connecticut.