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    New England vs. the Chesapeake The discovery of the Americas gave a ray of hope to promising settlers who would migrate from England to begin a new and improved life. Most of these settlers ended up in either the New England colonies or the Chesapeake colonies. These two colonies could not have been more opposite of one another. The fact that they were so different makes it no surprise that by the 1700’s the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had evolved into two distinct

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    influencing settlement pattern in the Caribbean is no new phenomena. Its occurrence has long persisted from the prominence of the Amerindians to present day societies‚ transcending cultural groups and races. The idea of physical landscape shaping settlement pattern is simple‚ people seek reason to settle and this reason for many is the physical landscape and how it may be used to their benefit. This essay seeks to capture the pervasive influence of physical landscape in shaping settlement pattern in

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    hunters with little or no desire to create a permanent home flocked to the Chesapeake region. The colonists in the north were more concerned with family values than those in the south‚ whose society suffered from a great lack of women and such a high death rate that family ties were hard to keep. As time went by‚ the development of slavery and indentured servitude started making an autocracy of rich cash crop farmers in the Chesapeake region‚ while in New England continued to have a majority of small farmers

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    Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake Relations between the Powhatan and English were ok‚ until the colonists raided Indian food supplies‚ burned houses‚ and set fire to cornfields. The First Anglo-Powhatan war ended with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe‚ but that peace didn’t last because the Second Anglo-Powhatan war began in 1644 and the result was the banishment of the Chesapeake from their homeland. The Powhatans fell due to disease‚ lack of unity‚ and the fact that the colonists didn’t

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    Daniel A. Parra Ms. Seno AP US History‚ 1st 9/24/12 Chapter 4 Questions 1. What were a few of the notable characteristics of Chesapeake life in the seventeenth century? Some of the notable characteristics of Chesapeake life in the seventeenth century were that most of the population of early Chesapeake was killed because of diseases like malaria‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid. These diseases cut 10 years from the life expectancy of new settlers from England. Another characteristic is that women were

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    the New World and settled in The Chesapeake and New England regions. The lives of the people settled in these regions were centered on two dissimilar lifestyles. Distinctive differences between these regions were in expectations‚ beliefs‚ and social cultures. The differences created a clear cut between North and South. The wide gap between the development of The Chesapeake and New England regions was mainly because of the way their lives were centered. The Chesapeakes were geared around monetary profits

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    new ideas on how to produce fashion with a sense of ethics‚ organic or renewable resources‚ and socially responsible manufacturing techniques. Simply put‚ the term “eco-fashion” refers to stylized clothing that uses environmentally sensitive fabrics and responsible production techniques. Our first motive is to spread awareness amongst the mass about sustainable fashion and the affects its absence has on our environment. The fashion industry is based on a model of continual economic growth fuelled

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    Discovery and settlement In the Last Ice Age the level of the sea water lowed‚ and people from Central Asia crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska. Five hundred years ago Indians in North America lived in scattered villages. Indians joined to protect themselves to common enemies. They founded the Iroquois leage and the Algonquin leage‚ later known as the Leage of the five Nations. They made only the simplest tools. There were no cities ando no white men. White men in Europe did not even

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    Zak Nixon May 29‚ 2012 HIST 1321 The Three Settlement Areas of the Early Americas The three settlement areas of the early Americas‚ the North‚ the Middle‚ and the Southern colonies were somewhat similar‚ but had major differences. When looking at the similarities shared amongst the three colonies we can compare their language‚ issues with the natives‚ English common law and the form of democratic societies in each of the colonies. Contrasting the differences of the colonies we can look at slavery

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    Elizabethan Religious Settlement The Elizabethan Religious Settlement was Elizabeth I’s response to the religious divisions created over the reigns of Henry VIII‚ Edward VI and Mary I. This response‚ described as "The Revolution of 1559"‚[1] was set out in two Acts of the Parliament of England. The Act of Supremacy of 1559 re-established the Church of England’s independence from Rome‚ with Parliament conferring on Elizabeth the title Supreme Governor of the Church of England‚ while the Act of Uniformity

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