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    events starting with the puritan-based rule of Oliver Cromwell during the 1650 ’s. Finally escalating‚ with the rise of William III of Orange and Mary II to English Regency. The Glorious Revolution had immediate and long-term impacts on the English Colonies‚ especially‚ Massachusetts‚ New York‚ and Maryland. After a period of religious and civil war in the late 1640 ’s‚ Oliver Cromwell‚ leader of the Parliamentary and Puritan Forces‚ executed King Charles I‚ rose to power over England‚ and established

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    How could an entire colony of around 117 people just disappear with no trace of where or why they went? The Roanoke colony is the first settlement made by Britain in the new world. Arriving to the island of the same name around the end of July in 1587. The colonists were greeted with a pleasant welcome from the Natives of that same area. Though all was well a supply run back to England was desperately needed. After the colony’s governor‚ John White‚ returned‚ everyone had vanished. The mystery behind

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    Fundamental religious orientation of the New England and Southern colonies‚ and its impact on general value systems. Fundamental religious orientation in Europe was primarily and predominately the Roman Catholic Church‚ until a German Roman Catholic monk‚ Martin Luther‚ nailed his written‚ 95 Theses on the door of the castle church in Willenberg Germany‚ in 1517. This began the Protestant Reformation. Another Protestant Church break-away from the Roman Catholic Church began when King Henry VIII

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    Soldier‚ prisoner‚ slave and explorer… All these titles belong to one man: John Smith‚ a historical figure who played a huge role in the establishment of the Jamestown Colony. Remarkably‚ there were two instances that Smith was rescued from death at the last moment by a love struck princess‚ one of which involved the iconic Pocahontas who is also a big part of history. Smith tells the exchange like this‚ “…and thereon laid his head‚ and being ready with their clubs‚ to beat out his braines‚ Pocohontas

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    being ran‚ so they many of them came to America and set up the Massachusetts Bay colony. The leader of this Colony was John Winthrop. The Puritans believed through religion and hard work they could build a perfect commuity. The Puritans influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies using religion. The Puritans had many influences on the political outcome of the New England colonies. The Puritans form of government was almost like a theocracy which is a form

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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by Puritans who wanted the freedom to practice their religion without Catholic influence which the Church of England had. They did not seek to settle a colony for religious freedom and believing what they wanted that was not Protestantism. They wanted to be able to eliminate Catholic influence from their Protestant beliefs. They did not want to have to deal with the Church of England changing between Catholic and Protestant or having to go through the Religious

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    and writer. Raleigh’s most famous thing that he has done is the establishment of a colony called “Roanoke Island”. The colony is also known as the “Lost Colony”. Raleigh was one of the main people who was involved in the exploration of North America‚ He also established the colony “Virginia” he named this colony after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Raleigh and his crew faced many challenges‚ while exploring these colonies they were ran off the land by the indians settling in North America. The indians

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    resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World? The religious turmoil in the Old World that resulted in Plymouth was the Protestant Reformation. This created a branch of protestantism called puritanism. The dutch puritans wanted to escape so they asked the King for a charter and started Plymouth in the New World. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth? The initial colonization in Massachusetts Bay Colony was more successful

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    Albert Einstein was believed to say‚ “If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe‚ man would have no more than four years to live.” Now that Colony Collapse Disorder is occurring‚ it is possible that bees will disappear. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is when bees disappear from their hives or suddenly die. No one knows the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Some think it is caused by pesticides‚ but Bryan Walsh wrote that the cause is the Varroa mite. It could be that CCD is caused by a

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    1. The New England colonies were characterized by greater social stability than both the southern and middle colonies. They were different mainly because of their geography. Unlike the New England colonies‚ the southern and middle colonies were far apart and had created their own individualistic societies when they settled‚ because they were so spread out. The New England colonies were very close together due to their mountainous geography so it was easy for them to maintain contact and have an organized

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