Articles related to "British America"

In his 6th Letter From a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the Farmer argued that Parliament's power to regulate trade did not grant a legal right to collect revenue from Americans

John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, in 1638, establish present-day New Haven, Connecticut. Davenport becomes the minister there.

The philosophy of life for the common man in Colonial British America produced values shaped by family need, local politics, religion, virtue, honor and even war.

The Puritan life dictated that sons learned their father’s business and that daughter remained pure until their wedding night. Laws were made by the church.

British America stumbled along, making numerous mistakes. But, somehow, she managed to expand, creating one settlement after another.

In the summer of 1787, the framers of the Constitution of the United States took the radical step of transferring national sovereignty from a government to the people.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton both contributed to the development of the United States' socio-economic system, but one prevailed in influencing this progression

Four years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams wrote a document that contained many of the same ideas. The march toward independence was well on its way.

Contemporaries accused colonial New York Governor Lord Cornbury of cross-dressing, but a 20th Century historian says not so. Who to believe?