The Colonies by 1763 - a New Society

The American colonies turned out to be different from what the British had envisioned when they began to colonize the New World. It was, most likely the distance between the new areas that resulted in the various dissimilarities between Great Britain and America. As time passed and changes took place, the Americans were no longer British living in America, but Americans living where they belong. The changes in religion, economics, politics, and social structures illustrate this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. Between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the most important change that occurred in the Colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself.…