Terms for Chapter 2 Sea Dogs-roving English ships that plundered Spanish treasure ships (1560s) St. Augustine–fort Spain created in Florida 1565 to protect the route of its treasure fleet against English ships‚ French settlers‚ hostile Indians (1st permanent Euro. settlement in US) Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries-new policy Spanish leaders introduced after military setbacks to pacify Indians by Christianizing missionaries not conquistadores (1573) Ecomenderos-privelaged spanish landowners
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movement. The story revolves around a small group of friends from New Orleans who vacation together on Grand Isle each summer‚ the main character being Edna Pontellier. On the other hand‚ there’s a film entitled Grand Isle‚ which is a direct translation of Chopin’s novel. Both The Awakening and Grand Isle make use of setting‚ symbols‚ and characters to reveal the ultimate theme of the work: that nobody is free from society. Grand Isle is a very complete adaptation of The Awakening and with only a couple
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The New England colonies include New Hampshire‚ Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ Rhode Island‚ and Connecticut. The Chesapeake colonies include Virginia and Maryland. These colonies were primarily settled by the english‚ but in about one hundred years later the New England‚ and Chesapeake colonies have became very different. These two sets of colonies have very different social‚ economic‚ and political structures. First of all they were very distinct economically. The Chesapeake colonies wealth mainly
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Monique Pitre Mr. Watson APUSH 9/6/11 DBQ The settlers of New England and the Chesapeake region may have migrated from the same origin‚ but that’s where the similarities end; by the 1700s‚ they differed socially‚ economically‚ and politically. As people began to migrate over to the New World‚ they started to adapt to the regions around them. This being said‚ it only makes sense that the settlers would adapt to the strengths of their geography‚ meaning that regions obviously differed. Socially
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Pilgrims came to New England because they wanted more land and religious freedom. They came from the country of England. They called this land New Plimouth because it was already named Plimouth and it was a new land to them so they named it New Plimouth. On November 11‚1620 the Pilgrims landed in North America. The ship the Pilgrims came over on was called the Mayflower. Two interesting facts that I learned while visiting the MAyflower’s replica was that CHristopher Jones was the captain and that the
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Powhatan The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten)‚ is the name of a Virginia Indian[1] tribe. It is also the name of a powerful group of tribes which they dominated. It is estimated that there were about 14‚000-21‚000 of these native Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607.[2] They were also known as Virginia Algonquians‚ as they spoke an eastern-Algonquian language known as Powhatan. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries‚ a mamanatowick (paramount
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By the 1700s‚ New England and the Chesapeake region had developed very distinct societies. This dichotomy can be traced from the very foundation of the colonies. The New England colonies were founded as examples of pure religion‚ each was to "be as a city upon a hill."1 In contrast to this worthy cause‚ the Chesapeake colonies were originally founded during the great search for gold‚ and later continued as slave-supported plantation colonies. The New Englanders would come to prosper through their
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Steven White Eng. 101 Omar Addi January 18‚ 2015 Chapter 2 Summary Writing a paper is no small feat. Many people may stress over the structure. Planning is an important step in writing a paper. Without planning‚ a paper will be disorganized‚ not have a definitive flow‚ may lack connecting with our audience and getting your point across. Planning allows you to develop needed skills to decide about your topic‚ purpose‚ thesis and audience. The first step in the planning process is to decide
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D. England Plants the Jamestown Seedling 1. In 1606‚ a joint-stock company‚ the Virginia Company of London‚ received a charter form King James I for a settlement in the New World a. The main attraction was the promise of gold‚ combined with a strong desire to find a passage through America to the Indies b. Like most joint-stock companies‚ it was intended to last for only a few years‚ after which its owners hoped to liquidate it for profit c. The arrangement put severe
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Chapter 2: The Invasion and Settlement of North America‚ 1550-1700 Rival Imperial Models: Spain‚ France and Holland The Spanish seized Mesoamerica and South America and converted many Indians to Catholicism. The Indians were forced to work as gold miners and farmers. The French and Dutch merchants created fur-trading colonies with North American natives. New Spain: Colonization and Conversion 1540s- Vasquez de Coronado discovered the Grand Canyon‚ the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest‚ and the Kansas
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