when the Mayflower landed‚ the colonists who emerged from the ships had huge plans and tremendous goals for what would come of their own colony. However‚ although both settled regions were the new homes to a majority of the English‚ two separate societies formed. In New England‚ the colonists were religious extremists hoping to form a perfect society‚ while gold hunters with little or no desire to create a permanent home flocked to the Chesapeake region. The colonists in the north were more concerned
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Smith‚ Robert Hunt along with others provided inspirational leadership for the colonists but even so starvation became a very apparent problem. The hostile relations with the local Native American people and a lack of any profitable exports only made matters worse. Despite this and a horrible winter bearing down on them‚ the colonists persevered. At the end of the first winter only 60 of the original 214 English colonists survived. (jamestown virginia) The settlers who came over on the initial three
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Ellen Diemer ENG 101 Butcher 26 October 2011 The Shedding of Puritanism In the article‚ “Perverse in the Popular” by Martha Bayles‚ the ideas of perverse modernism are lucid‚ straightforward‚ and audible. The article sums up the pure reality of the new culture we are living in; one filled with violence and sex. Bayles words are constant reminders that although what would have been seen as crude and obscene to our grandparents‚ is exactly what the young generations are being exposed to and brought
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The colonists policy toward the native Americans had different origins and therefore different consequences. Much has been written about the encounter of these two cultures‚ which would sooner or later bring about a painful clash. Because of their so diferent cultures‚ only one would prevail. The colonists as a group‚ depending on their beliefs‚ had a hard‚ harshpolicy toward Native Americans. Native Americans‚ on the other hand‚ structured their lives on beliefs which had no common base ground with
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reform and purify the Church of England through the application and full understanding of their scripture. Puritanism resulted and came about in the sixteenth and seventeenth century to reform the Church of the England. In the sixteenth century‚ political and social change fitted jointly together with religious life in England. Change resulted in Puritanism whom sought no interest in being a social‚ political‚ or more so economic movement. Unfortunately‚ Puritanism movement brought fourth economic
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the New World? 2. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth? 3. How did the colony of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony contribute to the origins of American independence and government? What were the contributions to American independence and government from the New England Confederation‚ the Dominion of New England‚ and the Glorious Revolution? 4. What role did religious intolerance play in the founding of New England colonies
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dream grew from a hope to find new trade routes to an economic stronghold to an entire country full of people who now claim dreams of their own. The American Dream began by people wanting to follow their own religion. Colonies settled into the New World for varied reasons. The colonists settled in the New Word because they hoped for a new beginning. The achievement of this travel justified that the colonies can be markets for England’s manufactured goods. "England saw the colonies as a way to sell
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The New England and Chesapeake colonies were both settled by English colonists. Most colonists moving from Great Britain to New England were families searching for religious salvation‚ rather than mostly the single men that traveled to the Chesapeake area in search of wealth. The immigrants of the Chesapeake area were greeted with a climate and soil that were perfect for cultivating tobacco‚ cotton‚ indigo‚ and rice. Those settling in New England could not rely on farming to support themselves because
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more land‚ cutting trees down and clearing land for grazing animalsInitiated Anglo-Indian WarsSouthern colonies constantly engaging Indians on frontierPequot War (1634–1638) - armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth coloniesMetacom’s War (King William’s War) (1675–1678)-armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonistsMost colonists took advantage of Native Americans and established an unfair trade system Cultural:
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long-term asset to be replaced only when it drops dead. Mr Venkataraman buys branded distemper when he wants to move from chuna to a better-quality branded paint. Mrs Ganguly has one refrigerator in her house. These are the behavioural patterns of the generation pre-liberalisation. What’s particularly interesting is that behaviours shaped by a few categories -- largely technology products -- have perhaps changed consumer mindsets so dramatically across all other categories that marketers
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