people think of the seventeenth century as having no variation from place to place‚ this is not true. Many settlements during this time were different in several ways‚ such as the English colonies in New England and the Spanish settlements in the southwest. Economic development and religion proved to be a key difference between the Spanish settlements in the southwest and the English colonies in New England during the seventeenth century. The two main religious groups in New England were the Puritans
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Societies of Chesapeake Bay and New England Colonies Many settlers who came to the New World from Britain in the early seventeenth century sought to establish a settlement for motives including economic and religious freedom in areas such as Chesapeake Bay colonies that comprised of Virginia and Maryland colonies and the New England colonies that consisted of Connecticut‚ Maine‚ and Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ and Rhode Island. Settlers who often came to these regions came with varying motivations
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Kenneth Lockridge‚ A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 1970) Many historical texts about the American Revolution and the events leading up to it are generalized‚ unspecific and do not investigate the preliminary causes of the changes America underwent before the Revolution. However‚ A New England Town by Professor Kenneth Lockridge attempts to describe how the colonies in America developed by following the progress of a typical Puritan colonial
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In the 19th century‚ London England experienced many tragedies. The rise in industrialization in many cities resulted in an increase in population and a decrease in living standards. These two factors were prime contributors to the generally unsanitary conditions that the majority of citizens were faced with during this time period. These unsanitary conditions caused many different diseases and illnesses. One of these diseases was cholera‚ a disease characterised by diarrhea and vomiting‚ which can
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Introduction Consumer society can be said to have begun to develop in the last quarter of 16th century during Elizabethan England where profound changes in consumer patterns occurred specifically to a small section of the population (the nobility or elite). From then on thanks to the Industrial revolution which bought about urbanization and rising prosperity (as worker’s wages increased)‚ emergence of fashion as a defining factor of style and mass production and consumption saw consumer patterns
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During the Middle Ages‚ the nobles were the main contributors of money to the monarchy in Britain and they wanted to be included in the government of the country to which King John agreed. Magna Carta was signed in 1215 as a document of that agreement and in 1240‚ the council of aristocrats which advised the kind was called a parliament. England was on the road of becoming the first and only parliamentary monarchy in Europe but the money from the nobles wasn’t enough and so the Council of Commoners
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Chesapeake and New England colonies Comparison During the early 16th century and into the early 17th century‚ European colonies rapidly colonized the newly found Americas. England in particular sent large groups to the east coast of North America to two separate regions‚ which would later become known as the Chesapeake and New England areas. The Chesapeake region included Maryland‚ Virginia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and the New Jerseys. The New England region of the colonies included Rhode Island‚ Plymouth
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Property Rights of Women in Nineteenth-Century England The property rights of women during most of the nineteenth century were dependent upon their marital status. Once women married‚ their property rights were governed by English common law‚ which required that the property women took into a marriage‚ or acquired subsequently‚ be legally absorbed by their husbands. Furthermore‚ married women could not make wills or dispose of any property without their husbands’ consent. Marital separation
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During the late sixteenth century English settlers began moving to the New World in search of a new‚ prosperous life. There were two main areas in America that the English settled in‚ New England and the Chesapeake region. These settlers voyaged to America for either religious freedom or to start a new life. Religion seekers came to the New World to escape the oppression of the Catholic Church. Others came in search of a job‚ or because of their low social class. The New England and the Chesapeake
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During the seventeenth century‚ in response to the change of; environment‚ social structure‚ family nature and society itself the diversities in the New England and Chesapeake cultures grew immensely. Some differences proved to be too much of a challenge for some and prosperous for others. New England families kept the traditional family structure known as a nuclear family‚ consisting of the head of the household‚ the father‚ mother and their children. The religious traditions carried over from
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