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    dealerships were heavily dualled through the ’50s. Beside Chrysler-Plymouth‚ there was DeSoto-Dodge and even Dodge-Plymouth. Chrysler Corporation decoupled its Dodge-Plymouth dealerships into the 1960 model year‚ which also was the penultimate year for DeSoto. Here’s how it has used the Dart name‚ so far. What’s in a name? the dodge dart through the years1960: Dodge gets a new low-priced‚ full-size series to replace Plymouths. Based on the Plymouth floorpan‚ at 210.5 inches overall (216.5 inches‚ wagon) on

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    John Smith and William Taylor Bradford were both writers who came to America from England. One of the authors‚ John Smith‚ traveled to America for the King of England in order to obtain the gold that was rumored to be present there. Bradford‚ however‚ didn’t come to America for that reason. Bradford and other Puritans there to escape the religious persecution they faced. Although Smith’s and Bradford’s writings were for different audiences and used different persuasive techniques‚ they were written

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    up in other colonies. The Pilgrims also pioneered the way to democracy. If the Pilgrims had settled in Virginia‚ where they had originally planned‚ they would have been subject to the authority of the Virginia Company. In their own colony of Plymouth‚ they were beyond any governmental jurisdiction‚ so

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    present day Massachusetts. The settlers mostly lived on the Mayflower‚ while they built their new living quarters. A scouting party was later sent out and the new settlers landed in Plymouth Harbor that December. These settlers began to establish the first pure Christian colony of New England. The start of the Plymouth colony began. These settlers are known as Pilgrims. The Pilgrims would now face a dreadful first winter where nearly half of them died due to poor nutrition and housing that faltered

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    In the early to mid-17th two of the first charter colonies in America were Jamestown and Plymouth. These colonies were very different‚ Jamestown was founded to find gold in the James River but when that idea was floundering‚ John Rolfe brought tobacco seeds to Jamestown and it eventually became the first tobacco producing colony in the English colonies. On the other hand‚ Plymouth was founded as a safe haven for puritans escaping persecution in England and was one of the few puritan colonies in

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    Have you ever wondered what life would have been like without rules or laws? Did you ever stop and think what could have been had the mayflower compact not been made of signed? The Mayflower Compact may be one of the many important documents created and signed‚ even to this day. Being that it was one of the first documents actually stating the first set of rules and laws of society‚ it certainly helped shape our nation as a whole. It enabled the pilgrims to act as one and be loyal to one another

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    Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger In the book Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation ‚ by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger‚ the plight of the African American slave is analyzed in strenuous detail. The authors use real stories of slaves‚ discovered in newspaper articles‚ court records‚ diaries‚ letters and runaway posters to give the reader a more personal approach as to the real situation African slaves faced. The book discusses discontent

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    English 093| Thanksgiving| 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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    Significant People and Events from the 1600s-1700s Significant People: Anne Hutchinson- She was a Puritan. She came to the Americas so she could have religious freedom‚ but when she settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ she found out that there wasn’t any “religious freedom.” She believed that all you needed was faith to go to Heaven. She started a women’s club and was soon recognized by many. The men (esp. John Winthrop) started to get worried that she could possibly become a leader. Remember

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    John Smith Jamestown St Augustine Roanoke Ponce de Leon Great Awakening Quakers Enlightenment Glorious Revolution Middle Passage Anne Hutchinson Bacon’s Rebellion Pocahontas Jonathan Edwards Salem Witch Trials Charles II Plymouth Colony New Amsterdam William Bradford Essays: Choose 2 (20pts each) 1. The Glorious Revolution solidified the notion that liberty was a birthright of the Englishman. Explain how the Glorious Revolution contributed to this idea and how it subsequently

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