and resulted in very little agricultural success. It was also too far away from the Pacific coast to be of any real use to Spain‚ which was why it was converted to nothing but a Christian mission. In New England‚ however‚ things were prosperous. Jamestown‚ a highly known New England colony‚ it may have started out difficult‚ but things got better. After drought and death‚ colonists used their neighboring Indians to help them out. Settlers used
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start a settlement they became the most powerful. There are many factors that helped the English become the power country. One of the factors that helped the English is that they recruited people that weren’t afraid of hard work. Most of these people were “middle class farmers‚ artisans‚ and tradesmen. Indentured servants‚ specialists in certain areas (sawmill workers‚ lumbermen)‚ and convicted criminals were also brought over” (Colonization). They English were interest in making settlements that would
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marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/cbhf/colonial/col007.html because it has art from the particular era that these events took place as well as primary sources. This site is related to the topic we are currently studying in the manner of its main subject: the settlement of the Chesapeake Bay. One thing I found interesting was George Percy’s journal entry on April 26th‚ 1607 (the day of arrival): "The six and twentieth day of April‚ about four o’clock in the morning‚ we descried the land of Virginia; the same day
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URBAN: • The number of residents is increasingly more in an urban area. • The density of human-established structures is high in the case of an urban area. • Cities and towns constitute urban areas. • It is interesting to note that natural resources and artificial resources develop rapidly in urban areas or in other words it can be said that the areas characterized by natural growth of resources flourish into urban areas. Urban areas are subjected to a process called urbanization. Vegetation and
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to be a volunteer nurse for the poor and less fortunate in New York’s lower east side. While volunteering‚ Wald saw the need for change. Immediately dropping out of med school‚ she moved closer to the needy. In 1893 Wald created the Henry Street Settlement. Starting off with the help of 10 nurses‚ she created a small empire that would expand to 250 nurses that treated 1300 patients per day by 1916. All of this needed some kind of funding. Well Wald took care of that with fund raising and volunteer
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differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the French settlements in New France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in terms of TWO of the following: • Politics • Religion • Economic development! • Native American relations In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ both Spain and France had developed settlements of their own in the New World. The settlements in the Southwest developed by the Spanish were very different from the settlements developed by the French in New
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influenced the settlements of Oceania and the Americas. These people were not exactly prepared for what the Earth had in store for them. Who would have known that global warming would have already started happening years and years ago? The Americas and Oceania both had settlements that were south of the equator or very close to the equator. By the equator‚ the climate was very hot‚ the air was wet and heavy‚ and it liked to rain a lot‚ which was hard for many crops to grow. These settlements relied mainly
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Account for the population of the Maltese islands and its distribution‚ analyse how the population of the Maltese islands evolved since medieval times and discuss the factors which determined its evolution. The population of the Maltese Islands has always varied and its distribution has changed in extreme ways over the course of time. There are a number of factors which have affected both the Maltese Islands’ population and its distribution. The Knights of St. John ‚ the war and transport are
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movements such as the social gospel‚ the populists‚ the settlement house movement‚ and the temperance movement. The Settlement House Movement was a movement when settlement houses were being established Settlement houses were there to provide social services and education to the poor social services and education to the poor workers who lived there. The Settlement House Movement was a movement when settlement houses were being established Settlement houses were there to provide social services and education
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what many would describe it if we were in their place. Two groups of different people embarked on the same voyage to the new land which were Jamestown and the Plymouth Plantation. What distinguished each other was what kind of person they hold as a leader‚ how they worked together as a group‚ and their purpose of traveling there. In the beginning of the Jamestown voyage‚ their main captain was quite corrupt and he was only there for a certain part of the voyage (pg 72-73) describes how the president
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