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    Fundamental religious orientation of the New England and Southern colonies‚ and its impact on general value systems. Fundamental religious orientation in Europe was primarily and predominately the Roman Catholic Church‚ until a German Roman Catholic monk‚ Martin Luther‚ nailed his written‚ 95 Theses on the door of the castle church in Willenberg Germany‚ in 1517. This began the Protestant Reformation. Another Protestant Church break-away from the Roman Catholic Church began when King Henry VIII

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    culture‚ or even individual. When Marlow leaves for the Inner Station‚ he travels with the Manager‚ pilgrims‚ and cannibals. During the voyage‚ the lines separating the Europeans from the Congo begin to obscure as Marlow notices the civility of the Cannibals. The Pilgrims‚ who at the ego level are obviously more civilized than the natives‚ begin to seem more uncivil than the Cannibals. The Pilgrims throw the Cannibal’s food overboard inconsiderately‚ but the cannibals refrain from eating any Europeans

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    where to flee‚ the Pilgrims studied Smith’s map and were intrigued by the label "Cape Cod." They were determined to profit from fishing‚ although according to Mark Kurlansky‚ in his book Cod: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World‚ "they knew nothing about fishing‚" (p. 68) and while the Pilgrims were starving in 1621‚ there were British ships filling their holds with fish off the New England coast. Believing they would "receive blessings" if they took pity on the Pilgrims and assisted them

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    Dates: 1607- King James I gave the permission to start a tobacco colony: North America‚ Virginia‚ Jamestown 1620-pilgrims arrived from England 1630-Puritans arrived MA 1765-Stamp Act: purchase stamps to show you paid taxes on all printed items. Quartering Act: must feed and house soldiers 1773- Boston Tea Party: colonists dressed up as Indians‚ toss 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor 1775- The American Revolution begins this year 1776- Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense”

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    THE TRUTH ABOUT THANKSGIVING When was the country we know now as the United States first settled? 1620 = omit Spanish‚ Dutch‚ Indians and the French First Pilgrims = Spanish Settlers introduced horses‚ cattle‚ sheep‚ pigs‚ etc. providing basic elements of cowboy culture should be like 1 million BCE problem: “settlers” = white Scarcity of disease in the Americas super healthy condition no livestock = no diseases from them ; no immunity/never exposed to it low social density encounter

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    Relationships Between Natives and Europeans In The New World The interactions and relations between European colonists and Native Americans were at times problematic and other times constructive‚ nevertheless transforming both cultures significantly. Before the arrival of Europeans‚ many native cultures occupied the lands and considered it to be their homeland with their own thriving culture and way of life. European settlers and explores invaded the area‚ only hoping to gain power‚ wealth‚ land

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    such as scurvy. But right when the colonists landed in present-day Cape Cod‚ they got right to work with enthusiam and held on to one major goal: to survive! And unlike Jamestown‚ the Pilgrims already had a government issued before landing within the colony‚ centered around the Mayflower compact. When the Pilgrims came to America on the ship called the Mayflower‚ there were people of different political and religious beliefs. The

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    1877 to the mid-1960’s (Pilgrim). White people in these states believed that they needed these laws‚ because Blacks were inferior to Whites in every way (Pilgrim). They also believed that “integration would mongrelize the White race” (Pilgrim). One punishment for not obeying these wrongful laws was that the black person would be lynched (Pilgrim). Punishments for not abiding by Jim Crow Laws almost always ended with the black person in question losing their lives (Pilgrim). In To Kill a Mockingbird

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    of the law is Blacks could not touch a White female because the Black risked being accused of rape (Pilgrim 1). Another example of the law is a Black male could not offer his hand with a White male because it implied being socially equal (Pilgrim 1). Third example is under no circumstance was a Black male to offer to light the cigarette of a White male because that gesture implied intimacy (Pilgrim 2). If the laws were not followed‚ violence must be used to keep Blacks at the bottom

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    Mayflower Compact in 1793) was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England. The core members of the Pilgrims’ immigrant group were Separatists‚ members of a Puritan sect that had split from the Church of England‚ the only legal church in England at that time. Others in the group‚ however‚ had remained part of the Church of England‚ so not all of the Pilgrims shared the same religion. When the Pilgrims left England‚ they obtained permission from the King of England

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