occurred because the New England colonies was based off of escaping religious persecution while the Chesapeake colonies was based off of profiting of natural resources. Document A was a speech called A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop‚ a Puritan traveling to New England for religious freedom. It was written on board the Arbela on the Atlantic Ocean
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Nhi Le Mid-term essay outline Explain the four major types of British colonial communities that developed by the middle of the 18th century. Talk about the economic‚ political‚ and social characteristics that made each community that made each community unique. Introduction Introduce 4 major types of British colonial communities: Urban seaports‚ Backcountry/frontier‚ settled farming‚ and southern plantation These communities are distinguished by their uniqueness in economic‚ political and social
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AP US History Chapter 2 Identifications 1.) English Protestant Reformation: took place in 1530’s when King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church. 2.) “Sea Dogs”: English buccaneers who sought to promote the twin goals of Protestantism and plunder by seizing Spanish treasure ships and raiding Spanish settlements. 3.) Francis Drake: famous “sea dog” who returned in 1580 with his ship full of Spanish booty and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on the deck of his ship. 4.) Sir
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In 1630 a group of allied colonists and puritans were on a voyage to the New World‚ aboard the Abella. The reason for their journey was to achieve religious freedom from their homeland‚ England. On the ship‚ a Puritan preacher named John Winthrop made a sermon to the group about God and his “commissions”. He spoke on how they need to look up to God‚ basically as a mentor‚ and that these commissions can affect their lives. Winthrop explains that for what God has done for us‚ we should repay him
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Growth of European Nation-States THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE * Francis I (Valois): Rival of the HRE and Charles V‚ unsuccessfully battled to weaken Habsburgs. * Concordat of Bologna: Granted the Pope right to collect the first year’s revenue from the Church offices in return for the ability to nominate high officials in the French Churchnationalized the church and increased the power of the monarchy * Francis I and Henry II (his successor) were opposed to any reform
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The Puritans were trying to find peace of mind‚ where they could freely practice their religion. King Charles I favored Anglicanism and Puritans faced religious intolerance in England. The Puritans did not have as hard a time as the Pilgrims or Jamestown‚ this had to do with their careful planning of transplantation and all the new recruits that came. The Great Migration in the 1630s into the 1640s there were over 10‚000 people that arrived
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The Mediterranean Sea had been the focus of European trade with other parts of the world for over 2000 years. In fact‚ until about the year 1500‚ the Atlantic Ocean had been a barrier‚ for Europeans. After 1492‚ this focus shifted to the Atlantic Ocean by routes south around the Cape of Good Hope‚ and by trans-Atlantic trade. European discoveries of new land meant an increase in commercial activity of the society from which the discoverer comes. Until then‚ most trading and manufacturing originated
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Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Prior to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630 religion had not played a large part in the politics and development of the British North American colonies. The first settlers who established Jamestown in 1607 were looking for riches similar to those found by the Spanish in Central America. After finding no treasure and on the brink
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Colonial Era - Religion and Government. The New Englanders went to a Congregationalist meeting house for Church services. The meeting houses became bigger and much less crude when the population grew after the 1660s. They were predominantly Puritans‚ who by and large‚ led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated & devoted to study of both scripture and the natural science. The New England laws assumed that citizens who stayed away from conventional religious customs were a threat
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England’s religious conflicts had grown full-blown‚ resulting in the colonization of nearly all the American colonies. During the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ one group of radical Protestants was known as Puritans because they wanted to "purify" the established Church of England. Essentially‚ their program called for a more complete protestantization of the national church‚ particularly insofar as church responsibility for individual conduct was concerned
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