New England Confederation

Examples of New England Confederation in the following topics:

• Settling New England

  • New England colonies included New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
  • The New England colonies included New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
  • In 1634 Massachusetts joined with her neighboring Puritan colonies to form the New England Confederation.
  • Its fate was to be found with the other Puritan colonies in the New England Confederation.
  • Describe the settling of the colonies which would eventually join together and become New England.

• King Philip's War

  • The war ultimately cost the New England Confederation and its colonists over £100,000—a significant amount of money at a time when most families earned less than £20 per year.
  • Despite this, the New England colonists eventually emerged victorious.
  • They died, dispersed from New England, or were put on a form of early reservations.
  • They never recovered their former power in New England.
  • Native American warriors attacked more than half of New England's towns.

• The English Protectorate

  • England's American colonies in this period consisted of the New England Confederation, the Providence Plantation, the Virginia Colony, and the Maryland Colony.
  • Cromwell's new rights and powers were laid out in the Humble Petition and Advice, a legislative instrument which replaced the Instrument of Government.
  • Following the Irish Rebellion of 1641, most of Ireland came under the control of the Irish Catholic Confederation.
  • In early 1649, the Confederates allied with the English Royalists, who had been defeated by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.
  • By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country—bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War).

• The Confederacy's Defeat

  • These led to additional Confederate surrenders, key Confederate captures, and disbandments of Confederate military units that occurred after Gen.
  • Other Confederate generals surrendered in the following days and weeks as the news from Appomattox reached them.
  • Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10 and the Confederate Departments of Florida and South Georgia, commanded by Confederate Major General Samuel Jones, surrendered the same day.
  • The Confederate allied Cherokee Brigadier General Stand Watie and his soldiers were the last significant Confederate active force to surrender on June 23.
  • The last Confederate surrender occurred on November 6, 1865, when the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah surrendered at Liverpool, England.

• Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine

  • The designation of colonial New England included colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
  • Two small proprietary colonies were set up - one in New Hampshire and one in Maine.
  • New Hampshire was not truly a separate province from Massachusetts until after 1691.
  • Like Rhode Island, this colony's history in this century is bound to that of Massachusetts, in the Confederation.
  • Analyze and discuss the founding of the New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine Colonies in New England.

• Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

  • Other Confederate generals surrendered in the following days and weeks as the news from Appomattox reached them.
  • The Cherokee Confederate Indians were the last significant Confederate active force to surrender on June 23.
  • The last Confederate surrender occurred on November 6, 1865, when the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah surrendered at Liverpool, England.
  • At that time, the Confederate government was declared dissolved.
  • The Confederate president was subsequently held prisoner for two years in Fort Monroe, Virginia.

• Cromwell and the Roundheads

  • As King of Scots, James had become accustomed to Scotland's weak parliamentary tradition and the new King of England was genuinely affronted by the constraints the English Parliament attempted to place on him.
  • The new Parliament drew up the Petition of Right and Charles accepted it as a concession in order to obtain his subsidy.
  • The monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship in England ended with the victors consolidating the established Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.
  • His forces defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country, bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • The victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army over the Royalist Army at the Battle of Naseby on June 14, 1645 marked the decisive turning point in the English Civil War.

• The Confederation's Problems

  • The Confederation faced several difficulties in its early years.
  • The Articles of Confederation envisioned a permanent confederation of states, but granted its Congress—the only federal institution—little power to finance itself or to ensure that its resolutions were enforced.
  • By 1783, with the end of the British blockade, the new nation was regaining its prosperity.
  • When other New England states closed their ports to British shipping, Connecticut hastened to profit by opening its ports.
  • The outcry for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation grew louder.

• International Diplomacy

  • Seward, worked to block this and threatened war if any country officially recognized the existence of the Confederate States of America.
  • Navy's boarding of a British mail steamer to seize two Confederate diplomats.
  • By late spring of 1863 France was in need of Confederate cotton and other Caribbean commerce to sustain the French conquest of Mexico.
  • News of Lee's decisive victory at Chancellorsville had reached the Continent, and French Emperor Napoleon III assured Confederate diplomats that he would make a "direct proposition" to England for joint recognition.
  • The Confederate government sent repeated delegations to Europe.

• Congress of the Confederation

  • The Congress of the Confederation was the governing body of the United States from 1781 to 1789.
  • The Congress of the Confederation opened in the final stages of the American Revolution.
  • The British, however, continued to occupy New York City.
  • The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created through the ratification of the Articles of Confederation.
  • The Articles of Confederation established a weak national government that consisted of a one-house legislature.