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    I must admit‚ at the onset‚ that I have a pretty negative thoughts about Columbus. My teenage idealization of the man who "discovered" America was crushed when I read the text book and hearing class discussions. From the book‚ I learned how Columbus enslaved and murdered thousands of Arawaks and other Native American people. The New World he had once portrayed as a paradise had swiftly spun into something much darker. Columbus’s actions were unjustifiable immoral‚ to say the very least‚ inhumane

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    CPUSH (Unit 1‚ #3) Name _____Maria Salazar ______________________ British Colonization in North America: Southern‚ New England‚ & Middle Colonies I. Settling the British Colonies A. Unlike the Spanish & French‚ the British colonies were not funded or strictly ______strictly____________________ by the king: 1. ______________join stock________________________ companies were formed by investors who hoped to profit off new colonies 2. Once a _charter_________________________

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    Anabaptist and Switzerland are also addresses for their contributions. The creation of Anglicanism is also addressed in his book as examines the English religion and government. He also addresses the English civil war of 1640‚ which was between the puritans and the Anglicans. This war had great implication to

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    Choose 1 European Country that colonized between 1500-1600’s in the New World and detail their colonization. Include What‚ When‚ Where‚ Why‚ How‚ Was. One major country that colonized the New World was Spain. In the 15th century in Spain‚ women were 2nd class citizens who had no authority or power in general. However‚ the new king and queen of Spain-Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella Castille come into power equally. At this time Christopher Columbus seeks out the king and queen of Spain to grant

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    Morton versus the Puritan view William Bradford was the leader of one of the earliest colonial settlements in the United States‚ of which Thomas Morton was a settler. Bradford documented his exploits in “Of Plymouth Plantation” to gain support from his home country and fellow colonists. Bradford’s work‚ however‚ differs from Morton’s “New English Canaan” which also describes the events which took place in the colonies and his views of the Cavaliers‚ the Indians‚ and the Pilgrims. Bradford applies

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    Essay| Mark Hardy| Ivy tech community college | 12/5/2012| | The English colonist called pilgrims were not colonist to begin with. The pilgrims celebrated the days of Thanksgiving as part of their religion. Those day were days of prayer‚ and not looked at as days of feasting as some would believe. The national Holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony’s successful first harvest.

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    persecution and practice religious freedom in America. Pilgrims from England‚ arriving on the Mayflower‚ settled in the Plymouth area of Massachusetts. Over the next several decades and into the seventeenth century‚ Puritans from England settled in Salem‚ Boston‚ and officially established the Massachusetts Bay colony. By 1640‚ there were over 40‚000 immigrants that had arrived in the Massachusetts Bay colony (Brooks). The religious ideas of the Puritans

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    England colonies was a completely different mission from the Jamestown settlers. Despite the economic prosperity was another goal settlers of New England‚ their true purpose was spiritual. Fed up with the ceremonial Church of England‚ the Pilgrims and the Puritans sought to recreate the society in the manner they think God really intended it to be developed. Religious hostility reached a peak in England in the 1500s. When Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church of Rome‚ the spiritual life in England

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    permanent 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

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    During the 16th and 17th century‚ people in Europe were experiencing violence and hatred towards any religion that differed from Christianity. Laws were put in place against those who had other beliefs‚ and it was considered common knowledge that a country could not exist unless all people held the same religious beliefs. Though many people in Europe agreed with this‚ there were a lot of people who did not. This brought up the idea of migrating to the new world‚ the Americas‚ in search of religious

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