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    Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake Relations between the Powhatan and English were ok‚ until the colonists raided Indian food supplies‚ burned houses‚ and set fire to cornfields. The First Anglo-Powhatan war ended with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe‚ but that peace didn’t last because the Second Anglo-Powhatan war began in 1644 and the result was the banishment of the Chesapeake from their homeland. The Powhatans fell due to disease‚ lack of unity‚ and the fact that the colonists didn’t

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    Daniel A. Parra Ms. Seno AP US History‚ 1st 9/24/12 Chapter 4 Questions 1. What were a few of the notable characteristics of Chesapeake life in the seventeenth century? Some of the notable characteristics of Chesapeake life in the seventeenth century were that most of the population of early Chesapeake was killed because of diseases like malaria‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid. These diseases cut 10 years from the life expectancy of new settlers from England. Another characteristic is that women were

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    Mr. Trzepinska AP US History 17 September 2012 DBQ on the Colonies Although both the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled primarily by people of English origin‚ they eventually developed into two distinctly different societies. This occurred because of the stark difference in the environment of the two regions‚ the economies of the two regions‚ and the mentalities of the people in the two regions. The Chesapeake and New England regions had many flagrant differences that led to

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    elements associated with the Kunst 1600 ? 1. Value elements * Cost savings from not having to change oil because the Kunst 1600 is an oil-free vacuum pump. * Higher revenues‚ and hence profits‚ due to higher productivity of the Kunst 1600 in lower pressure settings. These higher profits are only generated in the light commercial refrigerator repair segments since in these segments‚ the technicians can complete more jobs with a faster pump (the Kunst 1600) in comparison to the more traditional

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    Establishing the Colonies Name _____ Motives for settling in the New World: Spread Christianity Find a short cut to Asia Better job opportunities Roanoke Island With the permission of Queen Elizabeth‚ Sir Walter Raleigh raised money to establish a colony‚ and in 1585 a small group of men sailed for the Americas. What did Raleigh find when he returned to the Lost Colony of Roanoke in 1589? The people had vanished and they found the word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What

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    Executive Summary The Kunst 1600 is best suited for introduction into the light commercial refrigerator repair market. Its superior features‚ durability‚ and reliability provide the customer with nearly $1‚000 value in use of over current competitor models. However‚ the Kunst 1600 is not well suited to the residential AC market due to the wide spread perception that a 1.6 CFM pump is not capable of handling repairs for comparatively larger air conditioning units. For the home refrigerator repair

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    New England vs. the Chesapeake The discovery of the Americas gave a ray of hope to promising settlers who would migrate from England to begin a new and improved life. Most of these settlers ended up in either the New England colonies or the Chesapeake colonies. These two colonies could not have been more opposite of one another. The fact that they were so different makes it no surprise that by the 1700’s the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had evolved into two distinct

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    the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur? By the 1700s the two regions‚ New England and Chesapeake varied greatly in spite of being from the same mother country‚ England. Physical and cultural differences separated these two regions distinctively. While religion moulded the daily life in New England‚ Money and tobacco farming dominated the Chesapeake.

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    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 area settlers were

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    In the 1600s‚ a lot of things happened. It was the year Jamestown‚ Virginia was established- it was also when Pocahontas saved the life of John Smith. It was the same year that John Napier discovered logarithms‚ and when Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. But has anyone ever wondered what happened in the lives of Native Americans in the 1600s? What were their superstitions? What were their traditions? What did they dress like? What language did they speak? We all know that today

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