the similarities and differences among the Colonies in North America? The New England‚ southern‚ and middle colonies were all extremely different. For example‚ slavery was extremely more prominent in some places than others. Some colonies’ religion was more diverse‚ nevertheless everyone’s life was centered around religion. How would you feel if your life was practically controlled by your religion? Some of the reasons settlers established colonies in North America were because people wanted a place
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Those living in the American colonies in the seventeenth century faced many challenges. These tensions of political‚ social‚ religious and economic natures came from abroad and within. Influences of the political and economic nature from abroad onto the established American colonies shifted the shape and nature of the colonies; whereas‚ the social and religious tensions from abroad tended to create new colonies. The Quakers‚ for instance‚ were a group of English Protestants who left England in
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2011 Essay Question: #3 Compare and contrast the different ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. From all of the colonies that resulted from European expansion and conquest‚ perhaps the two most famous would be those of Virginia and Massachusetts. The economic development of Massachusetts and Virginia started in the same period of time but had many differences between them. Each was established by the similar
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Rebellion Before the Pontiac Rebellion‚ France And Great Britain were involved in different conflicts. One of the largest and well known was the Seven Years War in which England gained the victory. Indians fought on both sides for England and French‚ but mostly on the French side. However Indians main priority was always to gain independence. Iroquois Indians that used to have a significant level of autonomy now were threatened from British colonies. In 1763 Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lake
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Indentured Servants‚ and Bacon’s Rebellion encouraged slavery to grow in the southern colonies. By 1775‚ indentured servants were becoming inconvenient and Bacon’s Rebellion worried the plantation owners. The triangular trade brought slaves to America and the owners with no workers quickly bought on to slavery. Economic‚ geographic‚ and social factors all played in to the increase of slavery between 1607 and 1775. The geography of America helped slavery grow through the triangular trade. The triangle
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One bright‚ sunny morning‚ Petunia the pathogen was visiting the amusement park/water park. But‚ before she could leave her house‚ she had to get dolled up. She put on her earrings‚ made herself purple and then she started off. Petunia started her day off by going onto the doorknob to get a ride through Louis’ body and into the amusement park. Along the way‚ Petunia met Peter the pathogen. He was very nice to her and they were going to spend the day together. Then‚ when she got into the park‚ the
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Slavery; North The North during the civil war era saw no need for slavery as factory production boomed. Most of the workers in the factories were woman and children who worked for a low wage‚ so slavery was not a hot commodity. The political cartoon to the left is considered a northern view based upon how the north fought for the freedom and equality of slaves. The cartoon depicts the blacks and the whites uniting through a waltz. The definition of Amalgamation is to unite or combine two. In the
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The Enlightenment was a period of time which took place during the seventeenth and eighteenth century that saw a tremendous transformation in the thought process of western civilization and the advancement of several scholarly fields such as philosophy‚ medicine‚ and physics. Although commonly related to England‚ the Enlightenment played a huge role in the development of other societies‚ especially the colonies of North America. Some of the most important values of the Enlightenment included the
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The period between the 17th and 18th century is most memorable for the abolition of the Civil War. At this time‚ most African Americans were able to access the American society in many ways. They were able to acquire property after freedom was granted to them constitutionally. However‚ some parts of the south still exercised slavery which was legal. Most of the free African-Americans moved to the North where the prevalence of slavery was less. The African Americans who were freed contributed significantly
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of humanitarianism on the plantations of the West Indies. Slavery was essentially‚ almost exclusively‚ an economic institution. Slaves were used for the sole purpose of producing sugar and other staple crops. If the importation of more slaves
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