regarding the find have been lost due to negligence. However‚ the loss of information does not render the discovery invalid as it clearly displayed that colonists in Virginia were attempting to prevent witchcraft from its very beginning. The records of colonial Virginia are explicit to this need for the prevention of witchcraft.
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The Three Colonial Regions The thirteen colonies were British colonies in North America founded between 1607 and 1732. The colonists who came to the New World were not alike‚ they came from a variety of different social and religious groups who settled in different locations along the Atlantic coast. They were divided up into the New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies. Each group came to the new continent for different reasons and created colonies with distinct social‚ political‚ and economic
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(Hint: think about what Africa provided in the Triangle Trade) What items did North America sell to Europe/Africa in the Triangle Trade? What items did England sell to the rest of the world in the Triangle Trade? Describe‚ in detail‚ the conditions of the Middle Passage. How far west did the British colonies extend in colonial America? Why? Did most people live in the cities or the country? What did they do for a living? Roughly how many people lived
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Religion impacted colonial development in seventeenth- century North America by causing social‚ political‚ and economic spheres of colonial life in different regions to be affected by religious expectations. Social expectations created by religion in the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies were very different from one another due to the branch of Christianity to settle in the area. In the Chesapeake area‚ Catholics and Protestants settled there. Because they were not interested in
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Early Colonial Life During the seventeenth century‚ that land that is now called the United States of America would be changed forever by the English settlements that formed on the east coast. The various groups that embarked on a journey into the New World during the seventeenth would all face similar hardships‚ and eventually grow into powerful and structured colonies. The first permanent settlement was Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1607. The settlers that arrived that spring had no experience in
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colonies between 1700 and 1775. Many of them settled in the Middle Colonies‚ especially eastern Pennsylvania. Some factors that made Europeans leave their country to come to North America were improved housing and sanitation‚ longevity‚ large families‚ religious persecution‚ rising taxes‚ and poor harvest. Colonial America also grew because of immigration and increase of birthrate. Europeans were faced with religious persecution. Religious freedom was a motive for Europeans to settle in the colonies
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In British North America‚ three colonial regions appeared in the different geographical areas; New England‚ the Middle colonies‚ and the Southern colonies. Although these colonies were founded by the English‚ different agricultural and industrial oppurtunities and immigrancy led to a distinctive economy‚ religion‚ and social order between the sectional differences of the American colonies before 1750. Each region had its own type of houses‚ crops‚ churches‚ and values but the things keeping them
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A Colonial Breakthrough During parts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ Britain was a nation divided. Some of its population lived in the country while some lived in America. The colonists were not happy with the way they were being treated. Centralization‚ taxes‚ and failed negotiations were a few of the reasons that the colonists broke away from English rule. Centralization was a significant reason that the colonists wanted independence. The separated country had a system in which the
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The Puritans are best known for fleeing to America to escape religious persecution in England. They settled mostly in the New England area as our school books tell us‚ they landed on Plymouth Rock. They built their new society entirely on the belief that the "Bible was God’s true law" (Kizer). Consequently‚ education became an important part of Puritan life. According to the Puritans‚ "Satan was keeping those who couldn’t read from the scriptures" (Education in the Colonies). Puritan education
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When the English first settled in America‚ they had no intention of creating a new nation. They “continued to view themselves as Europeans‚ and as subjects of the kings. Some believed that if a nation were to arise from the English dominance in the New World‚ it would be identical to the English empire. However‚ between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763‚ a different society from England emerged in the colonies. Changes in religion‚ economics‚ politics‚ and social
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