Titlebook: Colonial America; From Jamestown to Yo Mary K. Geiter,W. A. Speck Textbook 2002Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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The British Empire in America to 1750ecame formally British when the Union of 1707 fused England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the notion had earlier antecedents. However, while the English and Scottish Parliaments were not merged until then, the accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne in 1603 h

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British Society in the Era of Western Migrationlargely reproduce the social structure of seventeenth-century England? Or did they create different kinds of communities? These questions are integral to any investigation of the relationship between the mother country and the colonies. They have been variously answered in the past. Some historians

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Anglo-Indian Relationsrom England. Until recently, even historians treated the colonies as though they had been settled from Europe with hardly any contact with native peoples. When they did encounter them, as often as not they were dealt with as problems to be eliminated. In the past 30 years or so, however, scholars ha

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The Chesapeakearly 200 miles north to the mouth of the Susquehanna River. The Eastern Shore is mostly flat and sandy, offering few enticements to the first settlers. But the Western Shore, between 10 and 20 miles across the Bay, is the outlet for several great rivers which attracted the English to settle along th