America more than 500 years ago. English settlers ventured out to establish their claims over lands in the New World. Two principal areas they established were the English colonies of the Chesapeake and their counterparts at Massachusetts Bay. The English colonies and the Massachusetts Bay settlements were different economically and socially but similar religiously. The Chesapeake colonies were founded on a basis of mainly economic pursuits and were the principal exports of tobacco‚ whereas the Massachusetts
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settlement than religious concerns‚ but this varies with the individual colonies. Each colony had something different to offer England and a different motive for settling. New England came about because the Puritans and Separatists wanted a place to worship free the original Church of England. Virginia‚ on the other hand‚ was established at first as a trade colony and base for gold and precious metal expeditions. The Maryland colony was founded in order to further the cultivation of certain crops like
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resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World? The religious turmoil in the Old World that resulted in Plymouth was the Protestant Reformation. This created a branch of protestantism called puritanism. The dutch puritans wanted to escape so they asked the King for a charter and started Plymouth in the New World. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth? The initial colonization in Massachusetts Bay Colony was more successful
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From England to the New World The New World provided many reasons for the English people to risk their life’s crossing the great Atlantic Ocean. Some came for the opportunity to seek fortune‚ others came to work the field to escape the harsh poverty England was facing‚ and others came in search of purity with the Lord Jesus Christ. For whatever the reasons‚ the New World brought challenges and those who could endure it were greatly awarded in fortune‚ faith‚ and opportunity. This essay will look
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1.Compare to New England‚ Chesapeakes society. 2.Of the estimated 11 million slaves carried to America the great majority were sent were?. 3.The English rehearsal for settlelement in the New world by colonizing were?. 4. To resolve the problem of the vast expenses New World settlement required‚ English merchant-capitalists introduced the. 5.Indentured Services: 6. Puritan dissenter Roger Williams established the colony of 28) ______ A) Connecticut. B) Rhode Island. C) Maryland.
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DBQ: Puritans Influence on New England between the 1630`s to the 1660`s During the 1630`s to the 1660`s the Puritans had a frat influence on the New England colonies. Puritans were protestants that arose within the Church of England. They demanded to have a greater and more rigorous discipline and were not satisfied with what the Church of England offered.They separated themselves from the Church of England but still considered themselves from the Church of England. when their desires were not
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came over to the English colonies because they wanted to escape religious prosecution and were seeking religious freedom. When Charles I disbanded parliament and drove England’s economy into the ground‚ some Puritans joined up with entrepreneurs and created the Massachusetts Bay Company (MBC). The MBC soon colonized the Massachusetts Bay area‚ which was run by these non-separatist Puritans. This colony of mostly Puritans did not agree with some of the ways other colonies managed their settlements
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by Puritans who wanted the freedom to practice their religion without Catholic influence which the Church of England had. They did not seek to settle a colony for religious freedom and believing what they wanted that was not Protestantism. They wanted to be able to eliminate Catholic influence from their Protestant beliefs. They did not want to have to deal with the Church of England changing between Catholic and Protestant or having to go through the Religious
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This site is related to the topic we are currently studying in the manner of its main subject: the settlement of the Chesapeake Bay. One thing I found interesting was George Percy’s journal entry on April 26th‚ 1607 (the day of arrival): "The six and twentieth day of April‚ about four o’clock in the morning‚ we descried the land of Virginia; the same day we entõred into the Bay of Chesupiocé we could find nothing worth the speaking of but fair meadows and goodly tall trees‚ with such fresh waters
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¨VA town tries to move on 40 years after Kepone disaster. ¨ In Hopewell‚ VA the James River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds were impacted by an environmental catastrophe. This disaster is known as the Kepone disaster or chlordecone‚ it harmed thousands of people some even severely ill. This chemical was a white insecticide that caught national attention‚ aided to urge the passage of legislation to regulate lethal chemicals and fueled potential environmental activism in VA. This chemical outburst
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