Chapter One: A New World The most detailed American historical records begin after European colonization (2). Countless amounts of people recorded the history America captivated until the present times. Answers to many of the questions some people have about America hides in the past‚ but a good amount of documents provide the public important evidence for some. Explaining how Europeans settled in the New World with various ways of doing so‚ and why Indians and Europeans live differently will take
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selfish individuals. When reflecting on the abolition and the points stated in this essay‚ I believe that the abolition of slavery was much needed‚ but our four fathers did not put much thought into the process. Although the slaves were set free in 1865‚ it took our government an additional 90 years for the African American to receive equal rights in our country. Therefore‚ I am more shocked with the delay in the abolition of the
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The reconstruction era was during the years 1865 through 1677. It was directly after the civil war and was focused on reinstating southern states into the Union. While many southerners wanted to rejoin the Union‚ many were opposed to the changes that came with it which included equality for blacks. Although‚ some social policies that were passed did help to advance through the reconstruction era successfully‚ there were many downfalls that came along with it‚ including social and economic failures
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percentage of the profits of the company. In April of 1606‚ the king issued a charter to the Virginia Company of London to create a colony in America. In December 1606‚ three ships set sailed for the Chesapeake and arrived off the coast of Virginia in May 1607. The new settlement was called Jamestown‚ in honor of England’s King James I. The colony was settled at the edge of a swamp‚ which was a fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying malaria. The Salt water from the nearby river contaminated the
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major developmental factors is economics. If two areas have vastly different economies‚ they will develop vastly different political systems. One such case can be found when exploring the development of Massachusetts and Virginia in the periods of 1607 to 1750. Massachusetts was a polar opposite of Virginia when it comes to economic development. In the early ages of migration to the new world‚ the majority of people who came to Massachusetts were families or groups. Some were escaping religious
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Pilgrims were not the first group of English people to live in America. The first group came in 1585‚ but their colony failed. They cam e for three reasons‚ to get rich‚ freedom of religion‚ and many people came because they wanted a better life. In 1607 the English started Jamestown in America. This town was in the Virginia colony. The English came to Jamestown to find gold and get rich. But they never found any. At first the Jamestown settlers didn’t want to grow food or build houses. Many settlers
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The most important contribution to European expansion was the search for new trade routes. Christopher Columbus in 1492 accidentally stumbled across the Americas on his way to India in search of foreign goods and a new‚ quicker path to get to them. The Europeans already had trade routes‚ but each of them had a flaw. Either the route was too long‚ too costly‚ or too long. The main countries of their times sent different explorer’s to find new trade routes. Portuguese Prince Henry (the Navigator)
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The history of guns in America is a long one‚ but they were first introduced to the world long before they were introduced to the United States. According to Linton Weeks‚the first guns in the world were most likely cannons used in the fourteenth century. There were also hand cannons carried by European soldiers (Weeks). This expresses that guns have been around much longer than the United States has. After cannons‚ there was the muzzle loader. Muzzle loaders had a fierce recoil ignited by a matchlock
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Jamestown is located in present day Virginia. These colonists in Virginia were located by the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists met the Powhatan Indians on their journey to Jamestown. The three topics in this essay about these colonists are Disease/Sickness‚ Weather‚ and Native American Conflict. The first topic is Sickness/Disease. The colonists started getting sick and dying because they didn’t know where else to dump their waste. Document "A" says that the colonists dumped their waste into the river
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supported local economies. •Relationships with Native Americans were better in these colonies than in the others. •This area was also the most ethnically diverse. Southern •The first colonists were English and settled in Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1607. •Their goal was to find gold in order to obtain wealth as rapidly as
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