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    By the 1700’s‚ a split had occurred along the east coast of North America‚ an area settled largely by Englishmen. This split occurred for a number of reasons‚ including different religious ideals‚ economic discrepancies‚ and contrasting social classes of people arriving in the New World. New England and the Chesapeake region were both founded for different things‚ the first of which being religion. New England‚ for the most part‚ was founded for religious reasons. While the Protestant Revolution

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    Colony Collapse Disorder is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen. The crazy part of this is that there is plenty of food and a few nurse bees left to care for the remaining immature bees and the queen. There has been theory upon theory of why this is happening but no one has the for sure answer. You may be asking why is this such a big deal?! Well CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) causes significant economic losses because many agricultural

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    confessing all of your sins? In the Plymouth Colony‚ people did that. The Plymouth Colony was the most healthy and safe European Colony in North America. It was an English colony founded on the coast of Massachusetts. It was active from 1620 to 1691. The first residence of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth‚ a location earlier observed and named by John Smith. The settlement‚ which was the capital of the colony‚ is now a town in Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony was the friendliest to the Native Americans

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    The Colonies The early settlers to this great country fled from Europe to escape religious oppression. Most left their country because they were getting persecuted or even killed because of their religion. Although these people where many different denominations like‚ Catholic‚ Quakers‚ and Puritans‚ they all came to escape from religious persecution‚ each group varied on how their religion influenced their government. One of the first denominations to settle in the New World was the Puritans

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    willingness to sacrifice his life for a mission can be compared to the Roanoke Colonists. Sadly‚ there are not any colonists that could have told their tale. Their life story would have appeared as a plot line in a horror movie. The mystery behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke can be summed up into two theories: The colonists migrated and Revenge-seeking Indians cut their thread of life merciless. Since John White’s

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    level of autonomy now were threatened from British colonies. In 1763 Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lake revolted against the British rule. The rebellion was named after an Ottawa war leader. Although‚ Newling‚ the religious prophet from Delaware‚ had a lot of influence on the ideology behind the

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    Chapter 4 Economic Development and the Imperial Trade in British Colonies The British leaders came to see the colonies as indispensable. Raw materials were shipped from the colonies back to the mother county. To improve its competitive position in the transatlantic trade‚ England adopted the policy of mercantilism‚ consisting of several‚ but four major regulations. This policy proved beneficial for them and colonial economies grew in tandem with Great Britain. The first regulation ended Dutch

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    Comparison of the Northern and Southern States Of America By:Corina Richards America is a country thriving on different cultures. The country is divided into four major sections the east coast‚ Central America‚ Mountain‚ and Pacific each housing a variety of societal cultures and practices. The east coast is where this country began its story and quickly began to spread across this great land. Within the east coast are the northern states and the southern states. The northern and southern states each

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    George C. Herring’s book From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 describes how the American colonies originated from Europe and our journey westward in to California. Herring does a good job making his way through our nation’s history. Depicting all the major events that took present. Describing major contributor‚ the present-day nation that we live in. Herring starts the book off by introducing the early forms of government that The American colonies started. He goes on to talk

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    The southern colonies were probably some of the most deceiving colonies of the original thirteen. They got people to do hard labor for them. The colonists I guess you can say were like “supervisors.” They would sit under some shade sipping on ice cold water while they watched their slaves and servants sweat and maybe even bleed by doing things the owners were capable of doing but were just to lazy to. Deceiving because they say they will give you land and freedom which is true‚ but in the end they

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