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    century spent their days performing many strenuous tasks in and around their homes. Pregnant women were at really high risk for bearing children‚ colonial women would give birth to about five and eight offsprings. Many of the pregnancies would often end in miscarriages and about one in eight could expect to lose their lives in childbirth. In addition‚ colonial women were always consumed by household chores and always had work to tend to‚ an example of this is an 18th century woman‚ Mary Cooper. In her

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    in assisting other slaves to freedom. On countless occasions she risked her life to escort hundred of slaves from the south to freedom. Her involvement played a pivotal role in successfully freeing slaves from persecution and abuse. However‚ this journey was not an easy one. Many slaves lost their lives in an attempt to secure their right to freedom. If caught‚ slaves were often returned to their masters and often times killed. The increase of freed slaves led to retaliation from the southern states

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    first to notice he was first to go into depth and use other evidence such as rock fossils‚ landforms‚ and the matching coastlines‚ it was an idea that would never leave his thoughts. In 1911‚ he published a textbook on the atmosphere‚ but at the same time he pursued his studies of the continents. He first went public with the issue in January of 1912‚ where he told his theory of continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter of Germany’s leading meteorologist)

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    Most of the first settlers in America came from England and considered themselves to be Englishmen. At first they relied on their mother country for money‚ supplies and protection. As the colony became larger and more populous‚ people gradually started feeling as if they were a separate nation. By the eve of the Revolution‚ the colonists were beginning to think like Americans and be unified towards a common goal. America just after the French and Indian war greatly lacked unity. Colonists saw that

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    During the colonial era of the seventeenth-century women lived as second class citizens women were not seen as equal to men in any way‚ in fact‚ they were seen in likelihood to animals‚ and men were seen as superior beings. In households‚ men were referenced as the lord of the home it was God‚ man‚ wife‚ then the child. Women were looked at as evil beings because of Eve’s shortcoming in the Bible. Families all worked together on their family farm. It was a time of self-sufficiency. By the late nineteenth

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    Everyday life in Colonial Virginia‚ much like society today‚ was shaped by social divisions. It’s influence was seen in almost every aspect of a person’s life: their home‚ their religion‚ their education‚ and their leisure time. Having a certain status was not enough for the gentry of this time‚ it was just as important that the wealthy were able to flaunt how much they had to give away. Events like going to church or going to a tavern were now key social outings that reinforced one’s place in

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    dissimilar in Colonial America without the Indians. There is a probably chance that slavery would have gained popularity quicker if there were not any Indians. History today would not be the same without the Indians. The Colonials learned guerilla warfare fighting from fighting against the Indians. Also the because of the existence of the Indians farming grew in the colonial Americas. The Indians did more than one may give them credit for. Of course it is impossible to know exactly how the colonial Americas

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    settlement would not have been possible. One of the main things that they were responsible for was the raising of the children that would live in the new life they had started. Living in colonial America was very harsh especially for women‚ they lived a very suppressed life where they were subjected to males for predominantly most of their lives. Early life for young girls in the colonies was spent being

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    Colonial government wasn’t so different from how it is now. Sure‚ we’ve changed some things‚ but we still have a baseline from way back when. Today‚ we still have a legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial branch. In the legislative branch they had something in England called ‘Parliament’. Basically Congress but with a different name. Just like Congress‚ Parliament was a bicameral legislature‚ a lawmaking body made of two houses. However‚ in Jamestown the houses were called House of Burgesses and Council

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    occur after the break up of the Inca Empire due to Spanish colonization mostly among groups that had no actual Inca origin. The concept of Incaism during the colonial period was predominantly an Indian “re-conceptualization of a past as Inca subjects”. Significantly Incaism has become a theme held by resistance movements since the colonial period‚ as well as cultural revitalization movements which are relatively “pro-indigenous.” Incaism has since

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