The northern and the southern colonies are very different than each other. Each colony has their own life and traditions‚ and ways of how their colony works. The difference between those two colonies was in the trading‚ religion‚ and their planting. Each colony has different plants than the other. Each colony made and consists of different things. The north colony people was very cling with their religion. But the southern colony people was not very clinging with their religion. There is some difference
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Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies Both Virginia and Massachusetts Bay colonies were started in the seventeenth century‚ but both for different reasons. Virginia was chartered to make a profit‚ whereas Massachusetts used their charter to flee religious persecution and live in freedom. Both colonies did however face similar struggles. They had to learn how best to survive the land they now lived on. This involved learning what would grow best and the best way to grow it. They also had to try
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out to come to America. However‚ just because many people came together to live in one place doesn’t mean they lived similarly. In fact New England and the Southern Colonies lived much differently from each other. Some of these differences are economic‚ political‚ and their Social. To start with the New England and Southern Colonies economic differed greatly. New England had a very rocky climate and short growing season‚ which internally made farming nearly impossible; The Colonist that did farm
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American Government from British Colonies to Revolution While the colonists were treated by Great Britain as minor children or as subjects to be governed‚ the very new sets of colonies were making their own establishments in the realms of self-government. Colonial self-government ranged on a grand scale from things such as town meetings and councils‚ to public assemblies and courts. From these assemblies‚ great leaders and political minds hosted thoughts and brought together a sort of regulation
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The Puritans and their choices and believes governed and organized the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was a settlement that was put in place in 1630‚ and formed a group of refugees from England. They functioned just like any other colony at the time would. They had politics and religion that were at the center of their every day lives. Their government‚ however definitely leaned more towards theocratic‚ picking political leaders directly out of church. The Puritans believed that God had created a
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The Importance of Tobacco to the Early English Colonies There were very few things that kept the economy growing in the early English Colonies. One that seemed to stand out the most was a crop that was often called tobacco. Tobacco was introduced by the Spanish‚ who had learned how to smoke it from the Native Americans (The Growth of the Tobacco Trade). Tobacco soon became very popular‚ many believed that it would open up the pores in their skin and preserve their bodies. Tobacco was also introduced
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England‚ especially for its family relations and mortality rates. Being very close to my family‚ I couldn’t imagine living without one of my parents or even my grandparents for that matter. According to The American Pageant‚ families in the southern colonies had problems with spouses‚ especially men‚ dying young and rarely surviving to be in their twenties‚ children not making it to adulthood‚ and girls getting pregnant before they are married; men also had trouble finding a woman to form a family with
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establishment of a new penal colony in New South Wales was imperative. Following the American War of Independence in 1775 and the subsequent defeat of the British there meant that convicts could no longer be sent to the newly independent nation. The African colonies under British rule were also out of the question as Africa’s severe climate was too hot for European settlers. With both potential locations proving to be invalid‚ Britain had no choice but to found a new penal colony in New South Wales. In
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Identify and explain three factors (there are many) that helped the American colonies defeat the British in the Revolutionary War. Colonial forces were clearly outmatched by the British in sheer numbers‚ training‚ experience and equipment. Despite the clear advantage held by British forces‚ the American colonies managed to defeat them by making allies‚ using new innovative combat techniques‚ and by possessing the homefield advantage. A combination of all of these advantageous attributes allowed
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resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World? The religious turmoil in the Old World that resulted in Plymouth was the Protestant Reformation. This created a branch of protestantism called puritanism. The dutch puritans wanted to escape so they asked the King for a charter and started Plymouth in the New World. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth? The initial colonization in Massachusetts Bay Colony was more successful
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