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    company‚ The London Company‚ received its charter from James I in 1606 they sent 144 men‚ only 104 made it to America. The colonists sailed over to America‚ up a river that they later named the James River and settled on a peninsula they later named Jamestown. Upon‚ their arrival they immediately ran into serious problems. Many colonists were highly vulnerable to local diseases‚ mostly Malaria. The main reason the colonists were there was to find gold‚ lumber‚ tar‚ pitch‚ and iron. They were hoping

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    Outline 1 I. Jamestown – The House of Burgesses A. The first permanent English settlement‚ Jamestown‚ was founded in 1607 near the Chesapeake Bay and James River. It was founded because the Virginia Company of London financed an expedition to the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists needed to find a place to settle‚ so they sailed up the James River and found a spot to settle. B. The colonists made a decision to grow tobacco. This changed Jamestown Jamestown because the Virginia

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    The colonial strategies of the Spanish‚ French‚ and Dutch were similar in that they all originally began their colonization through unchartered companies and colonized to spread Christianity and to acquire wealth. Each of these peoples also traded with the local natives. Despite their similarities‚ these countries’ strategies differed as well.             The Spaniards began whipping the natives who practiced polygamy and punished the ones that worshipped their traditional gods. They also began

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    Majority of overseas automakers manufacture over 3 million vehicles a year at U.S. plants and were apprehensive about their production if one of the U.S. automakers collapsed. Auto parts supplier industry were most likely to bear the brunt of Big Three fiasco reason being that majority of parts in an automobile industry are produced by a single supplier .The disturbances in production could persistent for long time and Toyota might take months together to work through that and resume normal production

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    Psychotherapy followed the tradition of medicine as it understood itself as a healing profession. That implies psychotherapists followed a psychic/biological model of man as a machine who needs curing. After being thoroughly diagnosed‚ the client needs intervention and re-education to heal‚ to perform again‚ to be fit again‚ to become normal‚ to become sane. The pathology orientation of the medically-based psychotherapists for example often did not fit the needs of the people and the therapeutic

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    Thought many years and many hard ships the conquering of the New World seemed impossible. England at the time wasn’t looking for gold‚ they were looking to be set free from the Church of England and from the Roman Catholic Church‚ they were in a great turmoil over religion. They wanted to find a place where they could practice freedom of religion rather going to the churches. They wanted this new land so they could produce the products needed by England. However‚ if they wanted this land they must

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    settlements‚ and the second Anglo-Powhatan war broke out in Jamestown from 1622-1646. The events that went on during the war in Jamestown is the perfect example of just how hostile‚ aggressive‚ and brutal the settlers could be to the Native Americans‚ especially when considering the fact that most Indian tribes welcomed the travelers at first. Some battles were extremely bloody. For instance‚ the Native Americans killed one third of the settlers at Jamestown in one‚ single attack. In spite of this‚ the English

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    actually happened in “The General History of Virginia”‚ it brings a whole new light to the relationship between the settlers and the natives interactions. In Disney’s 1995 version of the movie Pocahontas viewers are told the miraculous tale of Jamestown. When English settlers come to the Americas in search of gold their leader John Smith falls in love with the Powhatan Native American Chief’s daughter Pocahontas. They go on amazing adventures together and teach each other the ways of their people

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    The Planting of English America 2. What is the Time Period covered in these pages? 1500-1733 3. Which presidents were serving during the events covered in this chapter? (Write NA if not applicable) NA 4. Complete this Chart Some examples of events - a death‚ the start of a war‚ the end of a war‚ an election‚ the creation of a work of art‚ the publishing of a book‚ a trial‚ the passage of a law‚ a protest‚ a natural disaster‚ a man-made disaster‚ a battle‚ a meeting or convention. The Five Most

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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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