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    8/5/13 APUSH Settling the Northern Colonies Vocabulary 1. John Calvin 1. Protestant leader 2. Created dominant religion of American settlers 3. Wrote theories in Institutes of the Christian Religion 2. Anne Hutchinson: 1. Lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony 2. Promoted antinomianism 3. Banished and forced to walk and settle on Rhode Island 3. Roger Williams: 1. Wanted to break from the Church of England 2. Though Massachusetts Bay Colony was unfair to the Indians; banished 3

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    The 13 English Colonies (1630-1750) As the colonies grew in the 1600’s and 1700’s‚ they became the home to people of many lands. These people brought their own customs and traditions. In time‚ they shaped these old ways into a new American Culture. 1 13 colonies 2 1.The New England Colonies More than 1‚000 men‚ women and children left England in 1630 to settle in the Americas. They set up their colony in Massachusetts Bay‚ North of Plymouth. Over the next 100 years‚ English

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    Slavery grew into an important part of the southern colonieseconomy‚ driven by the near necessity of it geographically‚ economically and socially. These factors have a cause and effect relationship with slavery‚ and therefore also on its role in the economy. In the 1600s and 1700s‚ slavery was everywhere in the southern colonies. It ranged from small farms‚ which had one or two slaves‚ to the prosperous plantations with a slave for practically every hundred plants. In a way it showed a settler’s

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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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    dxgluizdkvgJSLDGuigasjf‚sdgkjsagksdjgdfhjhjhlkshzjhksjhfgiuhahHawthorne‚ Nathaniel‚ The Scarlet Letter: The student will keep a dialectical journal (see below) on the novel AND write informal responses to the following prompts: 1. Read the following passage (paragraph 3‚ “I might be‚ … martyrdom.”) from The Scarlet Letter‚ Chapter 5‚ “Hester at Her Needle.” Then write a short essay showing how Hawthorne depicts Hester’s inner turmoil. Consider such rhetorical devices as diction‚ figurative language

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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 came

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    In the seventeenth century‚ American’s took religious very seriously. The American’s were not active communicants. One in fifteen people that was in the southern colonies was a member of the church. In the eighteenth century‚ a church became official. The religious belief and practice in the eighteenth century‚ it was not as demanding as in Puritan‚ New England and Quaker‚ Pennsylvania. The colonial Anglicans from England‚ was a lot more rational‚ formal and conservative with their modes of worship

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    New World. Amongst the first groups to colonize included; the English in Virginia‚ Plymouth‚ and the Massachusetts Bay. Individually the colonies had their own reasons for inhabitation and exploration. They endured many circumstances that obstructed the beginning of their settlements. Each society evolved‚ adapted‚ and faltered in their separate ways. Each colony had differing original goals for settlement. In 1607 Virginia‚ 104 men reached the land they called Jamestown‚ a trip funded by the London

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    their very genesis‚ the New England and Chesapeake Colonies displayed stark differences and contrasts. The former was founded mostly for religious reasons and the latter for purely economic ones. Though both regions were in relatively close proximity‚ comparably‚ they greatly differed religiously‚ politically‚ socially‚ and morally (in so far as their perception/exploitation of Native Americans was concerned). The exploration of these different colonies will prove to be particularly fruitful due to the

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    Thirteen Colonies The thirteen colonies were divided into three regions: the Southern colonies‚ the Middle colonies‚ and the New England colonies. Each region can be characterized based on its geography‚ climate‚ economy and culture. These qualities may also be used to compare and contrast regions. One quality used to characterize the colony regions is its geography and climate. Both the Southern and Middle colonies have fertile soil and long growing seasons‚ while the New England colonies have very

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