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    During the late 1600s and the to the mid-1700s‚ countries fought for land and power in order to have global domination. While several countries fought for the same cause‚ resolving their diffrerences was nearly impossible‚ and this often led to more wars 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‚

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    Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Prior to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630 religion had not played a large part in the politics and development of the British North American colonies. The first settlers who established Jamestown in 1607 were looking for riches similar to those found by the Spanish in Central America. After finding no treasure and on the brink of collapse

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    people around you. Prior to 1700‚ the British North American colonies had conflicting outlooks on the extent of religious freedom in the new world based on the different acts of the British Empire and by the English origin of most of the settlers. New England was mostly comprised of Puritans‚ the Middle Colonies consisted of Quakers‚ and the South was more concerned about using the land to make money and didn’t emphasize on religion. The Southern Mainland colonies considered the Church of England

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    virtually represented the British colonies in America from across the mid-Atlantic ocean. In 1760 George III became king of England at the young age of twenty-two and elected George Grenville to be his prime minister. The circumstances of the Seven Years War resulted in a large debt that needed to be taken care of. American colonies were scarcely affected by the wake of the war; they did not send men or supplies to aid the British in victory against France. To the American’s‚ Britain was in control of their

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    Between 1607 and 1700‚ many people left England to migrate to North America. English settlers came as servants‚ who gave up their freedom to make it to America. Puritans also chose to leave their home because they saw the land of America as the freedom of liberty. The main reason these settlers traveled was because of the poor economic conditions in England and liberty. The wages fell dramatically‚ leading to the citizens searching for a new job. Therefore‚ because of economic reasons‚ English chose

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    New World Beginnings Mr. Cruz Shaping North America > 10 million years ago: Mountains formed in North America (Rockies‚ Sierra Nevada‚ Cascades‚ and Appalachians). > 2 million years ago: Ice Age in North America‚ and glaciers shaped the continent. > 35‚000 years ago: Land bridge created between Eurasia and North America. > 10‚000 years ago: Sea level rose and America was separated from Eurasia again. The People of the Americas > Sophisticated ancient civilizations: Incas‚

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    The Three Most Influential Colonies of Colonial America By the end of the exploration period in America‚ there were 13 colonies that had been established. All of these gave large contributions to the budding country‚ but in my eyes there were three that stood out among the rest‚ and for obvious reasons. These three colonies collectively showed development for self government‚ educational opportunity‚ and religious tolerance. They also provided proof of ethnic diversity and economic opportunity

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    The European invasions taught us that there was merely no remorse for the deracination’s that unfolded during the 15th to 18th centuries. There were numeral deep causes that led historians to believe how this process of Native American displacement took place. I intend to rank what I believe to be the three top crucial causes that led to the sweeping of European colonizations of North America from merely important to most important. In doing so I will explain why each cause is greater than the next

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    United States History DBQ During the 1700s‚ the regions of New England and the Chesapeake experienced dramatic changes and stimulated development due to the increase in immigration from Europe to this new world of the Americas. The immigrants that came to the New England colony differed in terms of reasons for coming and differences in ways of establishing a foundation for the society verses the Chesapeake colony. The differentiating motives‚ interactions between the natives‚ and the formation

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    sixteenth centuries was patriarchal . This means men ruled over women and children in the family and in society. All aspects of patriarchal societies allocated power and property to men though religious‚ political and cultural beliefs . These patriarchal ideologies were taken to the Atlantic World and although women were not sailors or explorers and did not directly discover any of the new world they did contribute to an extent toward the successes of the North American Colonies. Even though European

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