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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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    The New England Colonists highly valued religion and rules. Some well known colonists are the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims came to the New England Colonies for freedom of religion. They believed that the Church of England had gone to far beyond Christ’s teachings. There way of dealing with serious crimes was execution. The lesser crimes were handled with fines. There was one law on guns‚ if you did not bring a loaded gun to church you were fined 12 shillings. The church building itself had no significance

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    The Spanish settlements in the American Southwest in New England of the seventeenth century can be contrasted in primarily two ways. First‚ their politics were based on entirely different ruling classes and systems of government. Second‚ they employed different avenues of economic development. The Spanish settlements began with Cortes and others conquering the Native Americans of South‚ Central‚ and parts of Southwestern North America. After eradicating a large portion of the Native American population

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    from England in seek of religious freedom. They settled in New England and a majority of their population lived in Massachusetts Bay. In contrast to other English colonists‚ they came to North America to create a pure Christian society that emphasized the community and family aspects of life. Most other colonists‚ such as the ones living in the Chesapeake region‚ came to the New World in search of economic gain. In 1630 to the 1660’s‚ Puritan values and ideas had a considerable impact in New England

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    New England: A Matter of Perspective John Smith’s A Description of New England and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation both present a picture of the same pre-colonial land of New England. Mr. Smith’s writing‚ out of necessity‚ painted a rosy picture of the new land‚ while Bradford’s historical account shows early New England was not Heaven on Earth. Mr. Bradford and Mr. Smith are writing about one land‚ but they present two different accounts of the life in the land. John Smith’s writing

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    Courtship is a defining moment in every person’s life. It is only the styles that have changed. Courtship has passed the hands of time and evolved through time but the meaning is still the same. It still gives single men and women the opportunity to get to know themselves and each other in a deeper way. In most cases‚ courtship still starts with the men showing their intent to have an extraordinary relationship with the women. Courtship is the time when couples start opening their innermost desires

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    Conflicts Between New Settlers and Native Population Early English settlers viewed the native populations as little more than savages and a primitive people that were inferior to them. The English believed that‚ since they were an inferior people‚ their land could be taken and claimed for the English so that they could continue to expand and settle new areas and mire towns and villages. In this Essay I aim to Explain the views of the colonists about the native populations as well as the views

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    Around the 1600’s‚ New England started to develop a drastic population growth. This growth caused several problems for the occupants including‚ high prices on food‚ land‚ and a shortage of work for many because of the aggressive competition. Immigrants from New England began to prepare for a voyage that would be beneficial for some travelling to Massachusetts and not so much those who were travelling to Virginia. Although the settlers from the Chesapeake Bay and New England came from the same country

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    In the seventeenth century‚ New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations‚ and to what extent where those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? The Puritans were a religious group in the 17th century that separated from the Church of England due to the corruption they saw. These Puritans planned to fix the church from the outside by becoming a sort of "City upon a Hill" and act as a model society. Their goals included creating peace among the

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    that they colonied effected the way that the colonies evolve. From as early as the discovery of Roanoke in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh who captured two Native American back to England‚ bad blood had formed between the Chesapeake Colonies and the Native Americans. The New England Colonies had a very different relationship with the Natives‚ one which involed alliances and trade. Throughout history‚ these alliances and revolts has effected the way the colonies develop from Jamestown to Connecticut.

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