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    Generally‚ women in colonial America were constrained in the parts they played or restricted in their "spheres of influence." Women were once seen as just required to give birth to children and look after them. Their role was domestic; identified with exercises‚ for example‚ cooking

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    Notes A.) Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations‚ converting them to Christianity‚ and incorporating them‚ along with enslaved and free Africans‚ into the Spanish colonial society. The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals

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    Colonial Period 1607-1781 The Colonial Period lasted from 1607–1781 and marked a period when European nations were eager to try different methods to explore and conquer the New World. Before the British settled Jamestown in 1607‚ the only lasting colonies had been Spanish colonies in southern parts of America. Unfortunately‚ as was the case in many of the early British colonies‚ the settlers of Jamestown were so focused on finding gold and treasure‚ they didn’t create an actual society‚ and the settlers

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    Tobacco Author And Page Information • by Anup Shah • This Page Last Updated Wednesday‚ July 02‚ 2008 • This page:http://www.globalissues.org/article/533/tobacco. • To print all information e.g. expanded side notes‚ shows alternative links‚ use the print version: o http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/533 Tobacco and smoking have a number of negative effects: • Tobacco smoking kills • Tobacco exacerbates poverty • Tobacco contributes to world hunger by

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    and function well. In the middle colonies people owned huge estates. The Southern Colonies of course‚ were the most southern colony. They had the best land to farm out of all three regions. Their whole economy was farming. Their cash crops were tobacco and rice. That is how people in Southern Colonies made their living. People living down in the southern colonies weren’t very religious. They didn’t care if you went to church or not. They really had religious tolerance. Since the land was great for

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    In early America‚ unfree labor was originally done by indentured servants. As time went on‚ changes in the laws created the condition of chattel slavery. Slaves and indentured servants differed both in the way they were treated‚ and in their possible futures. (I am assuming I am supposed to write an essay about how they differed). In early colonial America‚ arable and available land was plentiful. Even though Native American tribes such as the Iroquois and the Anasazi had made their homes here for

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    Chewing Gutkha Gutkha can well be defined as a devil in disguise. Promoted as a mouth freshener‚ this betel nuts and tobacco preparation is designed to release a chemical reaction that makes it an addictive proposition. However‚ most consumers believe that the blended spices and seasonings do not make it as a harmful product! But‚ the truth remains that gutkha; just as any other tobacco product is very addictive and injurious to health. Gutkha has been proved to be carcinogenic‚ The Effects if Gutkha

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    distinctions between orthodox and unorthodox practices were distinguished (and oftentimes blurred). You may look at Staden‚ the readings on witchcraft and “superstition‚” etc. Beginning in 1492 when the Spanish under the crown of Castile invaded the Americas‚ where their first settlement was in Santo Domingo‚ their main motivations were trade and the spread of the Catholic faith through indigenous conversions and economic gain. Due to these objectives they intervened and attempted to change every facet

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    Anthony Edwards 8/24/12 AP US History - Jones Colonial America DBQ An interesting characteristic of the colonies that the English founded during the 17th and 18th centuries on the eastern coast of modern day America is that while all were indeed settled by people from England they each developed their own very distinct cultures and ways of life. While the varying environments from each colony to the next certainly isn’t a negligible factor in the diversification of

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    Based on their race‚ social status‚ economic status‚ and culture women within colonial Latin American and Brazilian society had different daily routines and lives and assisted the development of the colonies based upon their cultural‚ social‚ and economic status. For African women‚ slave and free‚ along with Native American women their daily routines were dominated by manual labor on fields and domestic labor with much of their labor fueling the economic growth and development of the colonies along

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