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    Southern Colonies Religion

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    Southern Colonies Religion | Southern Colonies claimed to have religious freedom but that tended to be a superficial idea. In these colonies Anglican faith was the most predominate. Anglican included Presbyterian and Baptist. While Protestants were somewhat tolerated most were Anglican. They didn’t really consider Native Americans and slaves religion to be an actual religion. Several people tried to convert slaves and Native Americans to their religion. When slaves began to give in they

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    Sir Walter Raleigh led expeditions to both North America and South America to find new settlements and gold. Sir Walter Raleigh also sent several shiploads of colonists to the east coast of North America. These colonists settled on Roanoke Island and names Virginia. In 1586 the colonists had to return to England due to hardships. John White returned to Roanoke in 1587 to establish a second colony there. John Smith founder of Jamestown In 1607 the colony of Virginia was founded by John Smith

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    Our Colony is located in the Southern part of the Colonies. Our location is near South Carolina because of the land is extremely fertile and the weather conditions that are not too detrimental to our way of life. The weather in our region is the warmest of all the regions. The Winters are very mild and are not hard to survive. The Summer is hot and humid. The Spring and Fall are crisp and mild with average temperatures. We need fish‚ forest (timber)‚ and fertile agricultural land.We get food by

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    Fulwider Class 7 Why you should settle in the Middle Colonies? From Delaware to New Jersey‚ New York to Pennsylvania‚ there is this wonderfully diverse colony. This is the place you will want to get married‚ have children‚ and basically grow old in. This is the bread basket colony . This is the Middle colonies. This is the Quaker land‚ where you can randomly give complete strangers a ride. The Middle Colonies have rich soil‚ thus letting

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    I. Frethorne‚ Richard. On Indentured Servitude. Edited by Howard Zinn‚ Anthony Arnove. New York‚ NY: Seven Stories Press‚ 2009 II. Frethorne talks about his miserable experience to be an indentured server. He writes the letter to his parents and describes the horrendous conditions he is in. Frethorne states some vital facts.1 He also writes that people who suffer as indentured servants are willing to lose either leg or arm but to move back to England. According to Frethrone he is working on plantation

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    The Roanoke Colony

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    indians came to where the colony was and that they took some of them and they killed the others. They were having a drought and i think the indians came to look for water and found them. So they ran into the colonist and killed many of them. They could of took the baby or some others too. In 1587 the english women‚ men‚ and kids found the roanoke island and came ashore. They settled at the New World to stay there permanently. (1)Around 1587 there was a second colony was founded in roanoke. The

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    The journey to America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 marked a new path for explorers from all over the world. England was one of those countries to explore the Newfoundland and settled into colonial America. By the 1700’s‚ Britain’s settlers divided into three distinct cultures within America. The New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies were formed because of their differences in religious beliefs‚ geographic aspects‚ and occupation types. The variety of religious view in the New England

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    Why do you think that the document makes such a strong distinction between the male and female slaves and servants? What does this say about a women’s place in society (slave or servant)? I think the document makes such a strong distinction between male and female slaves and servants because it gives the reader an idea of just how different it was between being man or woman‚ slave or servant. I think Number 51 gives the best picture of the differences between female servants and slaves as well as

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    This essay demonstrates and explains the differences between Virginia and Massachusetts in the terms of society and economy. Both colonies developed their own characteristics based upon the factors of: the economic motivation of the settlers‚ the political and religious motivation of the settlers‚ and the natural resources and climate of the region. Although located in different parts of the Americas they shared similarities and differences. In 1607‚ James I granted a charter for the settlement

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    "A cadet will not lie‚ cheat or steal." Why were the colonies established? Colonies were established cause of various reasons.The most important reasons of colonization were religion‚ economics‚ and government. The 13 colonies were based on land grant lines given to various nobles and wealthy people or groups by the English royalty.The original thirteen colonies were Connecticut‚ Delaware‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina

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