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    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 shared

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    New England and the Chesapeake Colonies were two very distinct colonies. The colonist came to the Americas in order to escape religious toleration and economic prosperity. As time passed the colonist were changed by their different surroundings. Although the New England and Chesapeake colonies both had English immigrants‚ they differentiated due to economic‚ social‚ and religious causes. In contrast the colonies were very different societies. There is many differences between the New England and the

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    Due to the voyages of exploration and the colonization in the Americas and all over the world‚ the European economy changed drastically from 1450 to 1700.  In Spain inflation lead to economic problems‚ while in the Netherlands‚ the Dutch East India Company flourished their economy‚ and in all of Europe‚ the merchant class grew due to mercantilism. The increase of business and hauls of gold and silver lead to inflation in Spain.  Inflation is the decline in the value of money‚ with the rise in prices

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    Differences between the three colonies are distinct. The New England and Middle colonies acquire an identical social structure compared to the South‚ which has slaves and indentured servants. The New England and Middle colonies dislike discrimination because of their lifestyle‚ which designates man as equal in God’s eyes. Another dissimilarity is religious toleration. Although the New England colonies have an equal social structure‚ they do not endure those who possess a different faith other than

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    England and settled in the different areas of the East coast which eventually led to cultural differences in social interactions‚ education‚ and the settlement of different religious groups. The social interactions in the northern colonies differed greatly from those of the southern colonies. The northern colonies’ families‚ like in New England‚ centered around patriarchy and male predominance. The southern colonies had an unbalanced ratio of males to females with a male majority. This resulted in greater

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    we talked about many things starting from Pre-Columbian North American cultures to the expansion to the west. North America was such an important land to many in Europe countries because it was unexplored and new. The first settlement in America was in Jamestown‚ Virginia also known as the Chesapeake colony. But they weren’t the only ones to come to America there was also the New England colonies that came to for different reasons than the Chesapeake colonies. One of the reason was for religious

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    1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800                                         1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt

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    era in Europe and America during the 1700s when mankind was developing from centuries of unawareness into a new age of progression by reason‚ science‚ and reverence for civilization. People of the Enlightenment were influenced by human reason‚ learned the natural laws of the universe‚ and defined the natural rights of mankind resulting in a growth in knowledge‚ official achievement‚ and moral values would be recognized. This new way of thinking led to the increase of a new religious thought known as

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    Why did tension increase in Europe from 1900 to 1014?There are various factors that amplified the tensions in Europe from 1900 to 1914. A few of the major factors were International rivalry‚ the arms race‚ colonialism and the Crisis ’s of Morocco and Bosnia. These factors‚ alongside numerous others contributed to fuelling the First World War. International rivalry was‚ debatably‚ the biggest factor that caused the First World War. As the European powers such as Britain‚ France and Russia had been

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    symphony had generally maintained the same principle movements‚ although gained a fourth movement or finale as it is more aptly named. An introduction or a possible fifth movement may also have been added‚ such as Beethoven’s 6th Symphony. But how did it succumb to this? There are of course‚ many contributing factors towards the development of this particularly prominent and historical genre. But in order to discover how the symphony has developed as a whole‚ the internal cogs that turn this device

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