differences between the Virginia colony and the Massachusetts colony. People all over Europe started coming down to the “new world” (America)‚ they came to the new world for many reasons such as land‚ food‚ religion and much more. Before I start to contrast between the 2 colonies I’m going to give a general background on them. Massachusetts was established in 1620 and Virginia was established in 1607. Virginia’s colony was Jamestown and Massachusetts was Salem and Boston. Virginia was located in the
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Virginia Slave Codes The Virginia Slave Codes date all the way to early 1600s. During the 17th century‚ indentured servants‚ who decided to work for an affirmed amount of time in replace for their means of access to the "New World"‚ were a handy resource of manual labor for the American colonies. Both blacks and whites served under the system (Goldenburg 1). White servants‚ after working out their time of agreement‚ often progressed to appreciated places in the society. On the other hand‚ their
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Loving V Virginia Every human should be granted basic civil rights. The constitution itself claims we as American citizens are granted “life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚” but does the government always allow us these civil liberties? Life‚ yes we are all granted the right to be alive‚ but liberty and true pursuit of happiness maybe not as much. Webster defines Liberty as “The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life”.
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Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies Massachusetts and Virginia were two of the early colonies in the new world. Although these two colonies originated from the same place they are very different. Virginia needed slaves for labor while the citizens of Massachusetts worked in production and had less slaves or indentured servants. Virginia traded cash crops such as tobacco and the colonists in Massachusetts build ships and traded fur among other things. While Massachusetts and Virginia were both British
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Hannah Trent Period 2 09/2/13 Virginia House of Burgesses Virginia House of Burgesses was one of the foundations to our American government. Politically it created a form of governing that is still in some ways used today . Socially this political group changed the way people think how a community could be ran by officials. Also‚ the creation of this allowed religion to not be the major key point in governing Colonial America but the focus was more on the people. In 1619‚ two burgesses
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Sending women to Virginia (1622) Early Virginia lacked one essential element of English society – stable family life. Given the demand for male servants to work in the tobacco fields‚ for most of the seventeenth century‚ men in the Chesapeake outnumbered women by four or five to one. The Virginia company avidly promoted the immigration of women‚ sending “tobacco brides” to the colony in 1620 and 1621 for arranged marriages (so-called because the husband was ordered to give a payment in tobacco to
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pursue happiness. A woman named Mildred Jeter fell in love with a man named Richard Loving. The only reason they faced problems was because the color of their skin. The Loving v. Virginia
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Virginia Company: Profits or Loses‚ 1606-1624 During inception the natives agreed to trading provisions to the colonists in exchange for metal tools. In 1609 John Smith the governor‚ started establishing raiding parties for food from the natives. The Powhatan fled further away from the Jamestown fort which caused a period of famine for the English from 1609-10. Many investors including The London Company became concerned about the future of the Virginia Company and how it would survive. Peace had
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Why do we go from Indentured servants to Slavery in Virginia? * Race does not scientifically exist nor is it defined. We made it up. It evolved out of one group deciding another group is different and cultures are different. Racism has to be taught. * English and European Racism: wanting to believe how you are and who you are is the best and your way is better. Evolved out of the type of society they came out of. White was always looked at as light and a good thing. Black is associated with
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emotions. In the three articles‚ “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk‚” by Virginia Morell‚ “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task” by Joshua Plotnik and‚ “Elephants Console Each Other‚” by Virginia Morell. All of the authors used information to get their message across and to explain the author’s purpose. In the first passage‚ “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk‚” by Virginia Morell‚ Virginia used information to inform you about what scientists are finding out about
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