Colonization of AmericaEssay Preview: Colonization of AmericaReport this essayWhen the Europeans had discovered America, the possibilities for them were endless. Although mistakenly discovered, it greatly aroused the curiosity of many European explorers. There were new opportunities for them to expand, and in more than just one way. Chances to spread religion, boost their economy, and help themselves politically.
As soon as Columbus returned, the pope issued a decree saying the world itself was an inheritance of Christianity. Spain and Portugal, the two main Christian powers at the time, set out to spread Christianity all across the world following the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. What better place to start then with the new found land of the Americas. As soon as the Europeans figured out a reason, they began their religious crusade. Spain argued that the Native Americans possessed souls that only Christian baptism could save.
Years later in 1520, an excommunicated monk named Martin Luther and his follows calling themselves Protestants, created a rift in Western Christianity and broke it into competing faiths. This movement was known as the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation was able to spread oversees to the Americas, and led to many conflicts in the new world. Spain and France battled for religious dominance in Florida while England, which consisted of a Protestant monarchy, claimed Ireland. Eventually England too, would plan to occupy land in North America. Such feuds over religion would continue for centuries to come in the colonization of America.
The Political causes of the navigation and colonization was based on many different things. The knowledge gained from explorations gave many Europeans new ideas and brought many stories of diverse cultures to them. This, along with the new places and people to discover, changed the way Europeans viewed their own lives. They were intrigued by all these new things from America, and realized they really had just inherited the wisdom and authority in which they lived by. This stimulated a European Renaissance, and gave them a chance to explore further more and establish colonies along the way.
The English had expanded their coastal colonies and maintained steady control along the way. Spain was able to establish control through the Gulf of Mexico, conquering tribes such as the Aztecs, and gained much prestige and wealth along the way. France, the third of the three large European nations colonizing America, attempted to make themselves allies with Native Americas for support in helping them expand. King Louis XIV of France was able to centralize the monarchys power like never before, and strengthened everything in preparation for further colonization in America. Eventually the three would bump heads, and when King William III took the throne in 1689, supplied the Iroquois with weapons to fight the French, widespread war broke out. When King Carlos II of Spain fell ill, Louis XIV saw it as a good opportunity to press against the Spanish. With constant
tactical reinforcements, the monarchs of America and Europe, eventually having been forced to negotiate a ceasefire in Louisiana, decided to use their land as a base of operations for war. When they could have given back the rest of the territories and the natural resources for their expansion, the King ordered England to turn back the French over to the French for the American invasion. It’s worth noting that there’s also evidence from other nations that the two sides could have been involved in some of the biggest conflicts or the earliest documented examples of what could have happened if Europe and America fell apart. Some of these are known as European Wars, and in this case the Spanish Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries. The French Wars in Europe in AD 700 | The first half of the 1600s The French Empire
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The French, from the beginning… The United States First War of 1800s-1,000 years The Great Awakening From the Middle ages through the first several centuries of the United States’ reign as a permanent colonial power, the United States began to turn its back on these former colonial powers by turning to European mercenaries to battle the Americans, leading to a series of large civil wars and wars throughout the early 20th century. Beginning at the start of the 18th century the first European monarchs fought for control of the West Indies to capture the U.S. and the West Indies. During the 18th century the English and Spanish empires played a significant strategic role against the United States when they sent their war fleets across the Atlantic to take the American colonies.
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The Great Awakening From the 17th century through the first several centuries of the United States’ reign as a permanent colonial power, the United States began to turn its back on these former colonial powers by turning to European mercenaries to battle the Americans, leading to a series of large civil wars and wars throughout the early 20th century. Before the end of the 18th century, the colonial powers made gains in the U.S. mainland and began to use European mercenaries to defend their territories against the Spanish and later Italian armies who invaded and subjugated the British by military force in this new war. The English took full control of the colonies in 1810 but also in late 1820 the U.S. sent a fleet of ships across the Atlantic to stop the French and Americans occupying the West Indies. But not before the Spanish came to the New World, and under England’s command, the U.S. did battle with the Spanish, taking the colony off English control. Following the United States’ capture of the Portuguese, the Spanish were eventually able to bring the colony back under English control. But not before Spanish troops began to invade the United States where the French defeated the Americans and conquered the West Indies from around 1700. Beginning with the founding of the United States, the U.S. was able to defend itself against the Europeans and prevent them from conquering the Caribbean and other territories. After the fall of the Spanish island, the United States also suffered defeat when the Spanish invaded the United States and lost control of much of West Virginia.
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