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    Northern & Southern colonies were close to each other‚ they held many similarities and differences. America was a place of dreams until immigrants began sailing to its’ shores. An influx of immigrants came to America in the 17th century were English‚ but there were also Dutch‚ Swedes and Germans in the middle region‚ a few French Huguenots in South Carolina and elsewhere‚ slaves from Africa‚ mainly in the South‚ and a scattering of Spaniards‚ Italians and Portuguese all through the colonies. They had

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    Compare and Contrast of the Northern and Southern Colonies The 1700s was a time when everything was new‚ new country‚ unseen land‚ and more resources. The colonists were still trying to discover all the new and exciting things in this new world‚ and still live under the king’s rule. The colonies were working hard to support England and themselves in this time; so the north and south spent most of its time figuring out ways to survive. The north and south had two very different methods of earning

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    In the seventeenth century‚ American’s took religious very seriously. The American’s were not active communicants. One in fifteen people that was in the southern colonies was a member of the church. In the eighteenth century‚ a church became official. The religious belief and practice in the eighteenth century‚ it was not as demanding as in Puritan‚ New England and Quaker‚ Pennsylvania. The colonial Anglicans from England‚ was a lot more rational‚ formal and conservative with their modes of worship

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    Spain and France. Colonies in the north and south developed their own characteristics making them important centers for the mother country‚ and later the new nation itself. The first settlers arrived in the northern portion of the American continent‚ and established the first cities along rivers and natural harbors. The British were all about shipping raw materials from the New World back to England‚ where they were processed into finished goods and then sold back to the colonies for a profit. The

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    Robert Jones Mr. Thompson American History October 4‚ 2014 1776 by David Maccullough Throughout the 18th century‚ tensions had been steadily increasing between Great Britain and the American colonies. The colonists were only upset because of the taxes and restrictions Parliament constantly bombarded them with‚ and King George III knew this. After the French and Indian War ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris‚ Britain now owned a vast majority of the north American continent. With the threat of

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    The northern and southern colonies were different from each other. Different reasons brought people here. the colonies survived in different ways judging by their resources. The north didn’t develop slavery but the south did. People came to America for different reasons. For example people who came to the south came for gold plant tobacco and rice. People from the north wanted free religion. According to the site New England colony‚ "The religion practised in New England was strictly Puritan

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    Life in the Chesapeake Colonies The first successful British colonization of the Americas was in the Chesapeake area and anchored by Jamestown which was founded in 1607. The original colonists nearly didn’t make it‚ as it was a very difficult life for them. Moreover‚ the colonists founded many relationships that were both good and bad with various other groups so that they could make it through those first years. With great will and sheer luck the area has thrived‚ becoming the heart of the

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    skyrocketed among British colonies with varied immigration pattern creating quite the contrast between the middle and southern colonies. Thousands of Europeans begin flooding the New World for religious freedom‚ in search of wealth‚ or for their own personal exploit. Many came to the Middle Colonies for liberation from persecution and for business ventures that would not be possible with primogeniture prominent in much of Europe; meanwhile‚ those who resettled in the Southern Colonies were there for more

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    my family‚ I couldn’t imagine living without one of my parents or even my grandparents for that matter. According to The American Pageant‚ families in the southern colonies had problems with spouses‚ especially men‚ dying young and rarely surviving to be in their twenties‚ children not making it to adulthood‚ and girls getting pregnant before they are married; men also had trouble finding a woman to form a family with since men greatly outnumbered women (Kennedy 60) . When you look at family relations

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    Hannah Medeiros Honors History Mr. Chew 2/14/15 1776 Book Review 1776 is a book by historian David McCullough‚ winner of the Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller‚ based on the American Revolution against the British. The book moves through countless different battles between the Americans and the British‚ involving fascinating facts of the war and the people immensely involved such as Nathanael Green‚ Henry Knox‚ and multifarious others. McCullough talks about the paltry and considerable

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