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    Puritans settling in New England lead to the social‚ economic‚ and political shaping of Massachusetts. Puritans originally came to New England in order to create a more godly world away from corrupt England. Many Puritans originally didn’t want to settle in America‚ but after being attacked in England‚ and seeing how corrupt the Angelicin church was they sought refuge in the new colony. There were many economic opportunities in establishing the colony as well as political and social opportunities

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    The colonies from the 1700s and today have many differences and similarities in natural resources. I will compare the differences in natural resources of current day New Jersey‚ New York‚ and Pennsylvania to their colonial counterparts. These states have grown in natural resources since their colonial days. Pennsylvania in the 1700s had a lot of natural resources. Back in colonial times coal and iron were Pennsylvania’s natural resources. Today Pennsylvania has a great mine that produces most of

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    Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many similarities and differences. Many of these differences were due to their physical location and climatic conditions. The success of both colonies can be contributed to strong leadership and the characteristics of the personalities of the settlers that inhabited each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American

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    investors prepared to colonize Jamestown‚ wealth was the contributing factor. The belief of taking vulnerable people to work was the original goal in the colony. Primarily‚ investors looked at using criminals as a source of generating capital‚ but these short term structures would lead to a large lower class with little political voice‚ and this would become a fear in the upper class. This fear of civil unrest is seen as a shift in the working structure of the government. Overall‚ racism was a major

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    5/22/2014 New England Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ American Romanticism‚ American Renaissance New England‚ What is Transcendentalism?‚ Transcendental Club Home > New England Transcendentalism Index > Background Summary Site Map | Slide Shows | Guest Book | Links | About Us | Download Wisdoms | New England Transcendentalism Backdrop to Events During "The First Great Awakening" (1730 - 1770) a large proportion of colonial Americans

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    Anti-Transcendental Movements During the New England Renaissance period of 1840-1855‚ literature underwent two very distinct movements known as Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism. Both movements were very influential and consisted of authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalist) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (Anti-Transcendentalist). Concentrating their ideas on human nature and intuition‚ rather than on logic and reason‚ both these movements served as a flourishing revolt

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    To what extent did the Spanish‚ French‚ and English interact with the Native Americans differently from 1492 to 1760? Native Americans came to a great deal of harm because of interactions with the French‚ Spanish and English. Columbus started a Spanish conquest that was able to last for decades before the next European country would get a foothold and begin their unique interactions with the natives including the British displacement and the French alliances. To varying degrees each European power

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    American society‚ the nation overcame a plethora of events which ultimately led to the astonishingly new ways of thinking in America. Conflicts are not uncommon for the American nation. Natives‚ mother country‚ neighboring colonists‚ anything a person can think of‚ happened in the new nation of America. Following those conflicts‚ however‚ came compromises that helped shape the American nation that stands today. At the start of contact with the New World‚ explorers come to find out people of different

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    How did a relatively small European nation like England rise to a position of world power? Obviously this question has many variables. Two major reasons that I feel attributed early on for the English success in becoming a world Empire. First the English persistence “at any cost” attitude when it came to the new world. The English literally sent ship after ship to the colonies even when survival rates were unimaginably low. This disregard for the individual and drive of high class greed is really

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    Beginning in 1607‚ when ambitious English colonists settled in Jamestown‚ and continuing until the last of the thirteen colonies was established; geography was a substantial factor in the development of colonial America. The crops that essentially saved the colonists lives‚ such as tobacco‚ rice‚ and indigo‚ wouldn’t have grown without a certain type and amount of soil to grow properly. Also‚ the Appalachian Mountains and the dense forests provided a barrier for the colonists‚ preventing them from

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