8/24/12 AP US History - Jones Colonial America DBQ An interesting characteristic of the colonies that the English founded during the 17th and 18th centuries on the eastern coast of modern day America is that while all were indeed settled by people from England they each developed their own very distinct cultures and ways of life. While the varying environments from each colony to the next certainly isn’t a negligible factor in the diversification of the colonists’ cultures in the
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struggle to subdue Ireland absorbed money and energy directed towards new world B. England and North America 3. Early ventures a. Humphrey Gilbert’s failed Newfoundland colony b. Walter Raleigh’s failed Roanoke colony colonists abandoned to England‚ colony abandoned to live among indians 4. Impetus for North American colonization c. National rivalry i. Opposition to (Spanish) Catholicismthreat to england’s protestant
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Columbus had discovered North America but went south and explored and colonized parts of what is now Mexico and South America. After Columbus many groups of Englishmen‚ Frenchmen‚ Germans‚ Scots‚ Irishmen and many others attempted to colonize and build a colony in the new world. but the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America and difficulty of maintaining old world ways in a raw‚ new continent caused significant changes. But the result was a new social pattern that resembled European culture in
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“Setting” is a word used to describe the place‚ time‚ assumptions and values of a society in a story. In the Scarlet Letter‚ the setting was in the Puritan town of Salem in Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1640. Being that the era and location of the backdrop is in a 17th century Protestant Puritan village‚ the assumptions and values would be that the townspeople are God-fearing individuals who strictly adhere to the Bible and its preachings. In this particular story‚ the primary conflict was the setting
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When asked to describe the lives of Puritan women‚ many have the tendency to compare them to Pilgrims and the lives they lived. Many describe them as oppressed‚ depressed‚ and discouraged‚ expected to live lives under strict rules and regulations of the government and the church. Yet‚ Puritan women’s lives were somewhat of the opposite. Yes‚ they were required to live according to the laws of the government and church‚ but they were also offered the concept of free agency. They were allowed to dress
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explaining all the laws and beliefs the Puritans were expected to follow‚ Morgan also tells the readers the way the Puritans disobeyed and rejected their government. In 1630 John Winthrop lead and settled a small group of Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritans lived a very religious‚ strict‚ and high expected life. As Edmund S. Morgan states “They would stress education‚ a strict work ethnic‚ a limited democracy and utopianism.” The Puritan Government was full with laws that were expected
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Several sects from all over Europe made North America their home throughout the 17th century. Beginning with the southern Chesapeake colonies‚ the North American regions were assembled by their founding nations. English Puritans and Separatists and Spanish Conquistadores eventually formed settlements in the New World; however‚ Puritans and Separatists and Spanish Conquistadores differed fundamentally in their original motivation to explore the foreign paradise. After facing prosecution in England
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the early seventeenth century. The puritans had the idea of growing a closely-knit Christian society. Although the puritans lived up to somewhat of an extent on creating a utopian political system‚ they didn’t live up to their vision of: building colonies that were socially weak‚ and having a harsh religious system. When the pilgrims came to New England they set out for their own religious freedom‚ even though they didn’t always believe other religions had the right to do so as well. In England
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Bring a Black ink pen Thesis: The Massachusetts Bay‚ and the Chesapeake region were both part of the New World where England was starting to colonize. Even though the people from these two locations originated from the same land (England)‚ these colonies turned out to be extremely different from one another. They differed in the reason they settled the land‚ the economic activity of the region‚ and the demographics of the colonies. II. Motives for Settlement 1. Captain John Smith settled Chesapeake
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the desire to separate himself from an impure England‚ or whether‚ as he eventually determined‚ it offered a unique opportunity to set an example for all men by establishing a shining city upon a hill‚ a purer Christian community in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In this regard‚ it seems to have been of vital importance to Winthrop and his fellow Puritan colonists that they had the approval of the King and that though they were physically distancing themselves from the Church of England‚ they were
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