In New England colonies‚ slaves were not needed as much as the other colonies‚ specifically the southern colonies because there was no labor for slaves to do because of the lack of good farming areas. Due to the cold‚ long‚ and harsh winters‚ farming in the New England colonies was a challenge and the growing season was very short. The soil was also rocky as well‚ so the farmers had to talk all the rocks out before planting. Due to these conditions they only farmed enough for their family‚ themselves
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reason was the opportunity to make money to bring together valuable natural resources and selling them to England in exchange for goods that were difficult to get in the New World. Other colonies were set up by the Protestants who wanted to avoid the religious they experienced in Britain‚ and also because they wanted to avoid the requried tithe payments to the Church of England. If they lived in England‚ they had to pay whether they were members or not‚ because it was the official established church. The
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The English were one of the European powers that sought to build and empire in the New World in the 1600s. Jamestown and the Virginia Colony were founded by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to benefit economically from their investments. New Hampshire and New York were also founded for commercial reasons. On the other hand‚ Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were founded by Separatists and Puritans who hoped to practice their religion freely. Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were
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News of the first execution to occur in New Holland has come back‚ apparently having taken place on the 27th of February last year. The convict Thomas Barrett of the ship Charlotte was hung for his crimes having stolen butter‚ peas and pork from the government stores. While it seems to be a severe punishment‚ reports from the colonies say that many convicts are malnourished‚ as they are having difficulties planting crops‚ meaning the food supplies are some of their most valuable possessions. As well
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turmoil‚ in mind‚ one comes to realize that Salem village‚ though its witchcraft trials were unique‚ in and of itself was a normal village with normal village problems‚ though better documented than many others. Generalizing the towns of early New England can be dangerous. Each town has its own story‚ with people from different areas and backgrounds residing in each. With this is mind‚ one has to ask if there can even be something considered the ‘typical’ town. Town and villages‚ even ones within
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handled the situation a little differently. The Puritans knew that it would be in the best interest of the colony to watch and interact with the Native Americans. The settlers could learn new ways to plant fields and harvest food from the Native Americans. These skills would be essential to survive in this new environment. Puritans never treated the Native Americans as equals but understood the importance of a good relationship with them (Nash‚ 2010 pp. 75-79). The Virginia colony saw the Native
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Anjali Bhakta APUSH New England & Chesapeake Region Behrend. 2nd hour July 31‚ 2012 New England and the Chesapeake Bay had both evolved into two distinct societies because of their physical and religious differences. Both of these areas had started off equally (population wise‚ etc.)‚ everyone had equal rights and settling in many different areas of the region. New England started to look towards religious ways to live‚ while people in the Chesapeake Region started to reply on money and crops
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Interpretation Paper on John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity” John Winthrop was born in Groton‚ England in 1588 to Adam Winthrop and Anne Browne on a farm his father purchased from Henry VIII. He had many advantages because his father high social and economic positions at that time. While at Cambridge University he was exposed to puritan ideas and married his wife at the age of 17. Because of his education he wanted to reform the national church from within‚ by purging it from
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English settlement in the Americas. Plymouth was first settled in the 1620’s by a group of 100 puritan separatist pilgrims. In 1619‚ the first representative legislative assembly in the New World met at the Jamestown church. It was here that our American heritage of representative government was born. Since New England was outside the jurisdiction of Virginia’s government‚ the Pilgrims established a self-governing agreement of their own‚ the "Mayflower Compact."Traveling aboard the Susan Constant‚ Godspeed
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In 1735 a ship set sail from England on its journey to the New World. Aboard was a young Anglican minister named John Wesley‚ who had been invited to serve as a pastor to British colonists in Savannah‚ Georgia. When the weather at sea got bad‚ the ship found itself in serious trouble. John Wesley‚ who was also chaplain of the vessel‚ was in fear for his life. Also on board was his younger brother Charles Wesley and a group of German Moravians‚ who were on their way to preach to the American Indians
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