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    Enlightenment and Religious Revival As colonies grew and developed in the Americas‚ so too did the needs and wants of the people who lived within them. With all the mounting turmoil that was stirring‚ people’s moral compasses spun about wildly‚ contrasting sharply‚ chalk full of uncertainty. Access to knowledge was available to a vast array of people from all walks of life. This was the perfect recipe for a religious reformation‚ or The Great Awakening. Conflicting views and new knowledge from the

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    PENGUIN BOOKS AMERICAN COLONIES Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic‚ which won the 1996 Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States‚ edited by Eric Foner‚ award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton

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    The Restoration Colonies

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    The restoration colonies New York: Old nether landers at new Netherlands 1600-golden ages of Dutch history. - maj. Commercial & naval power - challenging England on seas - 3 maj. Anglo-Dutch wars - maj. Colonial power [mainly in the East Indies.] New Netherlands - new Netherlands : founded in the Hudson River area (1623-1624) - established Dutch west India comp. for quick-profit fur trade. - company wouldn’t pay much attention to colony - manhattan [ new Amsterdam ] - purchased

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    Social Norms In The 1700s

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    Over time‚ the social norms and expectations in the United States have drastically changed. In the 1700’s‚ the American colonies were battling for independence from Britain. The only people who had a say in this country were rich white men. Poor white men‚ women‚ or African Americans did not have any rights. In the Declaration of Independence‚ it says “all men are created equal”‚ but they didn’t mean all men. There was a time in history where education was for the rich. As educators‚ we should

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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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    The Southern Colonies and their Social Groups To the immigrants‚ the colonization of the south was a chance to have religious freedom‚ to find gold and to have good trade. For some it was a getaway from the debt that they had collected over the years as well for the poor. The south was established in the year of 1607 by Virginia. It was soon followed by Maryland‚ the Carolinas and Georgia. From these opportunities‚ three social groups were created. These were the Great Planters‚ Yeoman farmers

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    Life in the 1700s wasn’t easy; the struggle was real back then but an opportunity comes up for the people in Europe. A new world was found and people set out west for many reasons. Some were trying to make money and start businesses. Others try to escape religion oppression to have their own freedoms of religion. Once they got to the west‚ there was also a great need for protection from invaders like other European countries. Going west might have involved plenty of risks but the rewards and freedom

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    were two colonies with England settlers‚ these colonies were very different. New England economy was base on growing crops and livestock‚ unlike the Chesapeake who depended greatly on the king of England for economic support. The New England colony who came to the new world for religious freedom practiced Christianity. On the other hand Chesapeake colony was mostly from the Anglelican church who at the time were actually a ruling government and religion was not important. Although both colonies would

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    The Northern Humanists were firm believers in higher education. Yet‚ they were also very critical of the way it was carried it out. Analyze their main criticisms of higher education and learning. The Northern Humanists are strong believers in higher education.  They differed from the more Italian approach; The Northerners emphasized education across a broader band of society‚ not just a more scholarly yet secluded class of intellectuals.  Somewhat oddly‚ the study of the ancient classics was

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    According to a research paper written by James Gray Pope (2009)‚ the history of labor and employment law in the United Statess may be divided into five periods: 1. Pre-Revolutionary (1600s to 1770s) – before the American Revolution‚ there were no labor and employment law set in “stone” (Pope‚ 2009). The family was the center of legal organization of labor. The qualified adult male exercised authority over everyone in the household‚ including

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