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    "The New England Colonies" ‚ was directed by someone‚ is about history of The New England Colonies. The founders of the New England colonies was a completely different mission from the Jamestown settlers. Despite the economic prosperity was another goal settlers of New England‚ their true purpose was spiritual. Fed up with the ceremonial Church of England‚ the Pilgrims and the Puritans sought to recreate the society in the manner they think God really intended it to be developed. Religious hostility

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    The European nations all had at least one thing in common when they came to the Americas and that was to increase their wealth. The Europeans thought of themselves as bold‚ fearless‚ and heroic explorers that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to discover a new kind of world. The Native Americans believed the Europeans were ruthless marauders. The truth is that both the Europeans and Native Americans’ viewpoints were right. The Americas were unknown and nonexistent to Europeans until their courageous

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    growing industry from 1607 to 1776. When settlers first made the journey to America and started using slaves‚ it was not near as popular as it soon would be. Eventually‚ slavery in America would become an economic powerhouse for the variable cash crops of the many plantations in America. Slavery was a strong industry and it was extremely useful in order to make profits in America. Slavery grew substantially from its origins and developed immensely in the Colonies from 1607 all the way to America’s

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    Virginia in May 1607. The new settlement was called Jamestown‚ in honor of England’s King James I. The colony was settled at the edge of a swamp‚ which was a fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying malaria. The Salt water from the nearby river contaminated the wells that were dug for fresh drinking water. Poor drainage meant the colonists’ own waste occasionally contaminates the water. Many setters died within a year. The Virginia Company misrepresented the Jamestown colony in their

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    History of Iron and Steel I have researched the origin of hot metal cars for many years. In the very early years of iron production and later steel production historical is sketchy at best. Almost in plant equipment was built on sight and sometimes no drawings were used. The ability of American fabricators in the late 1700 and the 1800 amazes me. A case in point is Otto Mears a German immigrant that built most of the three foot gauge railroads in the Colorado Rockies. He had a third grade education

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    growing and exporting the tobacco. The Jamestown Colony now had economic viability‚ which led Britain to send more settlers with new supplies. The newly arrived colonists found the conditions of the Colony terrible; therefore they set out to form a plan to rebuild the colony. Attacks against the Jamestown colonists began almost immediately when they arrived off of the ships that brought them across from Britain.

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    I. ENGLISH EXPANSION IN AMERICA: VIRGINIA A. Creation of an English Colony--Jamestown (1607) 1. Joint Stock Company 2. First settlers were young‚ male adventurers looking to get rich B. Early problems in Jamestown 1. Miscalculations 2. Difficulty securing labor C. Relations with Native Peoples 1. John Smith 2. Powhatan 3. Pocahontas - Matoaka - Rebecca 4. Opechancanough‚ brother of Powhatan

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    in New England‚ Chesapeake and New York/New France‚ these differences shaped the relationships between the Native Americans and the European colonists. In New England the first European colonists arrived to establish Plymouth Colony in November of 1620. Half of these colonists died during the harsh winter. Two Native Americans came to help the colonists‚ a Wampanoag named Squanto and an Abenaki named Samuset. They taught the colonists how to fertilize corn crops with fish because the colonists were

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    out to me the most. Even though these three colonies have differences based on how they started‚ who governed them‚ and how they were governed‚ they still have many similarities. 1607. Jamestown‚ Virginia. Founded by John Smith. Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England who was known as the Virgin Queen. Jamestown was the first permanent colony of the English. The type of government that was in this colony was a Royal colony. A Royal colony was governed by a royal governor that was chosen

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    and 18th centuries. Queen Elizabeth helped drive the colonization of Jamestown in 1607 and ultimately the creation of other Southern colonies to help Britain’s economy flourish. In contrast‚ James I‚ Elizabeth’s successor‚ spurred the settlement of the Northern colonies for religious reasons when he “vowed to purge England of all radical Protestant reformers” (Davidson‚ et al 85). When the Pilgrims sailed the Mayflower in 1620‚ an error in navigation led them far north to New England‚ rather than

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