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    A Love Affair

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    Most significant moments in our lives can also be associated with food. The birth of a child inspires loved ones to stockpile the new parents’ kitchen with congratulatory blessings of scrumptious casseroles and desserts. Mandatory sugary confections commemorate birthdays and anniversaries. A couples’ new life together is first celebrated with slews of edible delights and ostentatious cakes. Tragically‚ even death is marked with food furnished out of love and sympathy for the family. In the lives

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    The Influence of Tobacco on Chesapeake Society and its Subsequent Effects on Society‚ the Environment‚ and Politics. Every day in America‚ 3200 people smoke their first cigarette. [1] Tobacco has been a part of daily life for so long‚ we don’t think twice when we see someone take a smoke break‚ or buy a pack of Camels at the gas station. However‚ tobacco was once an even larger part of society. In the early 1600’s nearly everything one did was dictated by tobacco. In fact‚ it is thought by many

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    African-Americans of humanity and dignity. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed‚ Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White‚ and Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan examine the systematic removal of power and perceived humanity of enslaved women and contrast the perceived sexual promiscuity of enslaved women with the sexual repression and virtue assigned to white women. Annette

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    and Chesapeake region Divergence New England and the Chesapeake region were very influential in the founding and prosperity of the United States. Both were founded by English explorers and both were able to thrive because of the determination and bravery of Englishmen. But even with these similarities‚ by the 1700’s‚ the settlements were drastically different. The New England settlement turned into an aristocratic colony focused on the belief in God and religious freedom while the Chesapeake region

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    to develop colonies such as New England and The Chesapeake. Although the settlers in New England and the Chesapeake came from the same place‚ they started to separate into two distinct societies based on the reasons founded‚ political views and religious standpoints. Body 1: Reasons Founded The different reasons people settled in New England and the Chesapeake area caused the colonies to evolve into two separate societies. * Chesapeake: For money. Settlers came to find gold (Document

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    hunters with little or no desire to create a permanent home flocked to the Chesapeake region. The colonists in the north were more concerned with family values than those in the south‚ whose society suffered from a great lack of women and such a high death rate that family ties were hard to keep. As time went by‚ the development of slavery and indentured servitude started making an autocracy of rich cash crop farmers in the Chesapeake region‚ while in New England continued to have a majority of small farmers

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    Massachusetts Bay‚ and the Chesapeake region were both part of the New World where England was starting to colonize. Even though the people from these two locations originated from the same land (England)‚ these colonies turned out to be extremely different from one another. They differed in the reason they settled the land‚ the economic activity of the region‚ and the demographics of the colonies. II. Motives for Settlement 1. Captain John Smith settled Chesapeake Region. Massachusetts Bay settled

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    By 1700‚ the New England and Chesapeake region evolved into two distinct colonies although both were settled by people of the English origin. One of the major distinctions between the two colonies is the populations of the two regions were settled by different people. New England and Chesapeake also had different reasons for settlement in these areas. Another cause for the development in the two societies was the difference of the way of life. New England and Chesapeake formed into two distinct societies

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    Differences between New England and Chesapeake Colonies – DBQ By the 1700s‚ Colonial America was a diverse society; the northern colonies of New England and the southern colonies of the Chesapeake region‚ although mainly made up of British settlers‚ were already becoming distinct areas unlike any seen before this time. However‚ they shared little in common‚ as both regions were drastically different from one another. The differences started with the initial reasons for the founding of each colony

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    The Native American group in the Chesapeake Bay region was known collectively as the Powhatan Federation of Indians. Powhatan also refers to the Algonquin Indian chief that lived and ruled in the region around the early 17th century. The Algonquians were a deeply religious group of people subsisted primarily through agriculture. The natives referred to the area as Tsenacommacah. Powhatan was the weroance‚ or chief ruler of Tsenacommacah and 25 other Algonquin villages. Powhatan would play a significant

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