dependent on England‚ concentrating on five issues: (1) that America flourished under England‚ (2) that England protects America‚ (3) that England provides unity to the different colonies‚ (4) that England is the parent country‚ (5) that strength is gained in their union. (Paine PG). Pain later outlines the primary harm that he feels will come from dependence on England. Paine uses Enlightenment thinking to defend his position that America should separate from England and set up its own government
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In Alan Taylor’s book American Colonies‚ he describes how boundaries are important on various levels to explain the past. Taylor refutes the idea of teleology‚ which is the belief that certain events lead to a predetermined outcome‚ and uses contingency with no conclusion and unorganized past. In the introduction of the book we see the environmental‚ ethnohistory‚ and Atlantic perspective being used to interpret every angle of history. I have decided to use chapter 2 “colonizers” to describe how
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To what extent and why did religious toleration increase in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Answer with reference to three individuals‚ events‚ or movements in American religion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. People went to America to search for religious freedom and to escape religious persecution. They came from all of the world and so with it came religious diversity. As a result‚ religious freedom began to replace religious persecution
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and conflicts. One of the many conflicts concerned the domination of North America. While many European powers competed for control of North America‚ Britain gained the most territory through the four French and Indian wars‚ King William’s War‚ Queen Anne’s War‚ King George’s War‚ and the French and Indian War. As these wars progressed‚ Britain achieved the most success and eventually became the most dominant power in North America. King William’s War‚ which occurred from between 1689 to 1697
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Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies The Reformation was the driving force behind English Catholic dissenters‚ many of which would eventually form the base of groups heading for new lands to find religious freedom. These people would come to be called Puritans and their goal was to purify the Church of England. They wanted to do away with the “offensive” features such as Church hierarchy and traditional rituals of Catholic worship in order to promote a relationship between the individual and
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History 11 17 September 2013 America Chapters 1- 1. Challenges to the Spanish empire a. The success of Spain encourages Portugal‚ France‚ England‚ and the Netherlands to claim parts of the New World a.i. First French effort to colonize- c. 1538- Jacques Cartier a.ii. Dutch and English grow in power and start colonizing. Netherlands become largely protestant and rebel against Spanish rule- 1567- do not receive independence until 1648 a.iii. Francis Drake‚ English “sea dog” (pirate/smuggler)‚
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nations develop but in very different ways‚ resulting in the following nations to adapt very different ways of thinking and keeping control of their nation. Differences such as England and Netherlands having much more success commercial than France and Spain. These two systems both had areas they succeeded greatly in but also areas that they failed in. Within that scenario the opposing model (constitutional or absolutism) would usually succeed. Absolutism is the idea that a kings power
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the development of the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies was greatly influenced by the effects of the search for riches and power. Each area had common basic interests‚ but the ways in which they went about attaining these goals were in most views different. Prosperity was the major goal of everyone‚ but each settlement had its"˜ own idea of the kind of prosperity it wanted and the way in which it was to be accomplished. Early Virginian settlements themselves revolved around making money. This was
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One of the main goals in the Spanish colonies was to convert the natives from their native religions to christianity. It was quite debated how this should take place with one of the major spots of contention being the native use of idols. There two sides to the idol discussion in the Spanish colonies‚ the first was that all idols should be completely annihilated‚ which clergymen like Pablo José Arriaga supported; the other half of the debate was that the natives should be allowed to keep their idols
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Scots- Irish‚ and German’s to America can be traced back to the 1600s during the period of transatlantic trade. Eventually‚ the end of the 19th century‚ Scots-Irish and Germans immigrants with their families‚ made America their primary destination. The immigration and settlement patterns of the two nations had both similarities and differences in the Middle Colonies. “The middle colonies defined a distinctive culture and social order that precociously anticipated the American future” (Taylor‚ 2001). They
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