America's colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the
founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14,
1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4,
1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often
overlapping among the colonists, between the colonists and the
original inhabitants, between the colonists and other imperial
European peoples, and between the colonists and the mother country.
As conflicts were endemic, so too were struggles for power. This
study reveals the reasons for, stages, and results of these
conflicts. The dynamic driving this history are two inseparable
transformations as English subjects morphed into American citizens,
and the core American cultural values morphed from communitarianism
and theocracy into individualism and humanism. These developments
in turn were shaped by the changing ways that the colonists
governed, made money, waged war, worshipped, thought, wrote, and
loved. Extraordinary individuals led that metamorphosis, explorers
like John Smith and Daniel Boone, visionaries like John Winthrop
and Thomas Jefferson, entrepreneurs like William Phips and John
Hancock, dissidents like Rogers Williams and Anne Hutchinson,
warriors like Miles Standish and Benjamin Church, free spirits like
Thomas Morton and William Byrd, and creative writers like Anne
Bradstreet and Robert Rogers. Then there was that quintessential
man of America's Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin. And finally,
George Washington who, more than anyone, was responsible for
winning American independence when and how it happened.
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