We have now begun our journey to South Carolina. I can’t wait to arrive‚ though I am worried about the travel there. When we first set out‚ father spoke with James‚ Elizabeth‚ and I. He finally thought it was time to tell us about Lexington and Concord‚ I don’t think he knows I know so much about it already. Though he told us some things I was not aware of. He said that‚ even though the colonists lost so many men they still considered the battle a victory. This confused and surprised me‚ they thought
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Religious freedom was the driving force that led the first settlers that arrived on America’s shores in the 1500’s. They wanted to be free from the religious intolerance and forget the past. They were greeted by something that they couldn’t have expected in their wildest dreams‚ people living there already‚ and people that had lived on the land for centuries before. These Native Americans were not ready to assimilate and saw these settlers as gods‚ and began to worship them. The settlers believed
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European Nations Settle North America Competing Claims in North America The French‚ English and Dutch established colonies in North America Explorers Establish New France Giovanni da Verrazano‚ an Italian in the service of France. In 1524 he sailed to N/A in search of sea route to the Pacific Verrazano discover the New york harbor Frenchman Jacques Cartier reached a gulf off the eastern coast of Canada that led to a broad river ( St. Lawrence) He also found the island Mont Real‚ which
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Q1: Defend or refute one of the following statements: The European encounter with the Americas can be viewed as a disaster and a tragedy. Or The European encounter with the Americas can be seen as inevitable development in the history of humanity with long-run positive results. The European encounter with the Americas has more of a negative affect than a positive affect. After Columbus had came back from America with gold‚ many monarchs and countries got excited by the gold and sought formal confirmation
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Factors that led to Industrialization in America There were several factors that led to the industrialization of colonial America such as new technologies. These new technologies which were developed in rapid succession‚ were crucial to the formation of factories that led to industrialization. Several other large reasons that led to the industrialization in America were plentiful natural resources‚ immigration and population increase‚ improved transportation and investment capital. All of these
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Chavelle Maitland Montego Bay Community College History (Yr 2) “Colonial rivalry was the MAIN reason for the European wars from 1650-1763”. How far is it possible to agree with this statement? "As sources of wealth for their European owners‚ the colonies became as important a cause of war in the eighteenth century as quarrels in Europe itself. Commerce‚ colonies and power in Europe were vitally connected‚ and any limitation of trading rights or any blow to a colony was a method of keeping the
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How and why did America become a slaveholding nation? Although it was not a planned system‚ it was‚ unfortunately what we ended up with. Colonial America became a slaveholding society by gradual changes in the laws to gain a stable supply of labor. When the word slavery is brought up‚ most people today would think of African Americans working and struggling under the control of a white man. However‚ this was not always entirely true. Slave labor was an American institution. It wasn’t only
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remembered writing these words down (methods of punishment)‚ and after reviewing the chapters and looking back at notes I pieced together why they were so important. I felt like the treatment of these inmates was just as important as well. In early colonial America the colonies developed their own set of laws based on their religion and there was little difference between crime and sin. The early colonists did not identify crime to be a social problem; instead‚ they considered crime to be "a predictable
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Anthony Edwards 8/24/12 AP US History - Jones Colonial America DBQ An interesting characteristic of the colonies that the English founded during the 17th and 18th centuries on the eastern coast of modern day America is that while all were indeed settled by people from England they each developed their own very distinct cultures and ways of life. While the varying environments from each colony to the next certainly isn’t a negligible factor in the diversification of
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much-related regions: USA and Latin America. I will focus this particular activity in Latin America (LA). By placing myself in the LA perspective‚ I see this particular region shaped by both economic and political factors. However‚ I must say that the economic ones feature a more “external” agent and the political reflect more an “internal” issue. The Economic influence of USA has shaped the entire life of LA since Independence Wars in early 1800´. However‚ this influence would not have taken place without
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