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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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    Week Five Essay: Servant Leader Servant leadership is a very hard thing to accomplish sometimes due to the fact that it can be difficult to fully put others in front of our own needs or wants. “The reality is that we’re all self-serving to a degree because we come into this world with a self-serving heart……The journey of life is to move from a self-serving heart to a serving heart. You finally become an adult when you realize that life is about what you give rather than what you get‚” (Kouzes

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    interaction with Native Americans there. Why did the Native Americans of New Mexico revolt against the Spanish settlers? SECTION 3 Assessment (page 32) 1. For each term or name‚ write a sentence explaining its significance. -John Smith -Indentured servant -King Philip’s War -mercantilism -Jamestown -Puritan -William Penn -Navigation Acts -Joint-stock companies -John Winthrop -Quaker 2. Identify the

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    with the purchase of slaves. Finally‚ the religious boom of the Great Awakening and how it transformed many people social and physical environment. The criminals‚ rogues‚ and vagabonds that were all shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants came to escape England. In England they were viewed down upon so coming to the New World was a great choice and as they

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    Matthew Ward‚ in his article “An Army of Servants: The Pennsylvania Regiment during the Seven Years’ War‚” discusses the provincial soldiers in Pennsylvania. His research brought him to the conclusion that a majority of the ranks of provincial soldiers in Pennsylvania were made up of indentured servants. Combining facts such as age‚ occupation‚ and birthplace‚ Ward paints a picture of the men who signed on as provincial

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    1607 by the Virginia London Company‚ their main crop like most of the other colonies where tobacco and indigo. Their most famous “government” was the House of Burgesses. And the colonists were composed of Planter’s‚ Slaves‚ Aristocrats‚ indentures servants‚ and a lot of slaves. North Carolina was another colony that was very similar to Virginia. It was founded by dissenters from Virginia and squatters in the year of 1653. Just like Virginia‚ the cash crop was tobacco and indigo‚ the exception being

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    and the developing of a sense of community among these people. The author mentions that in 1680 slavery was not very common in English colonies‚ later around 1700 this would change. One of the possible causes of it was the decrease of indentured servants in the colonies of Chesapeake and the Carolinas‚ in which the labor force was in high demand at that time. Captive Africans became easy to obtain due to the slave trading by merchants and ship owners in European countries. Europeans could purchase

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    farm‚ is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The details of this crisis are revealed as Peter becomes deeply involved in a manhunt for two escaped bondsmen‚ better known as indentured servants. Although only 12 years old‚ Peter volunteers to participate in the search for the escaped servants and finds himself facing physical perils as he and Mr. Shinn become separated during the search. Peter inadvertently finds one of the escapees‚ who just happens to be an 11 year old girl.

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    empires. Like every economic activity‚ it has changed over time. Earlier forms of plantation agriculture were associated with large disparities of wealth and income‚ foreign ownership and political influence‚ and exploitative social systems such as indentured labor and slavery. The history of the environmental‚ social and economic issues relating to plantation agriculture is covered in

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    very profound differences. The Chesapeake colony and the New England colony both migrated from England due to oppression. The Chesapeake colony consisted of second sons who could not inherit family heir-looms or money; it also consisted of indentured servants who did not have the proper skills to sustain a job in England. The New England colony consisted of Puritans who left England after Charles I took the throne and ordered England a strictly Anglican society. Although they were oppressed and both

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