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    The Virginia Colony vs. The Massachusetts Bay Colony The Virginia Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were both similar and different on three main topics: religion‚ economics‚ and demographics. Religious views and importance differentiated greatly between the two colonies. New Englanders‚ the area in which the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled‚ came to America to exercise religious beliefs that were not allowed before the English Civil War and after the Restoration. They were made up of

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    In the early seventeenth century two separate groups founded two very different colonies. The first to be colonized was the settlement of Jamestown‚ located on the Chesapeake Bay which is in present day Virginia. Just over a decade later the colony of Plymouth was founded on what is now known as Cape Cod‚ Massachusetts. Though both the Massachusetts Bay colony and the Jamestown colony were established in a similar historical timeframe‚ they developed distinctly different social views regarding the

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    The colony of Maryland is a very unique colony in many different ways. The colony was formed in 1634 by two hundred emigrants‚ mostly Roman Catholics. With the founding of Maryland came the first permanent proprietary government of America‚ that is‚ a government by a lord proprietor‚ who‚ holding his authority by virtue of a royal charter‚ nevertheless exercised that authority almost as an independent sovereign. Maryland is surrounded by the three colonies Virginia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Delaware and

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    Virginia Colony versus Massachusetts Colony Throughout the 17th century‚ the New World was being developed and the colonies were being formed. Two of these newly founded colonies were Virginia and Massachusetts. Between the two colonies‚ there were many similarities as a result of similar backgrounds of those who founded and were running the colonies. Although there are many reasons as to why people‚ the majority being from Europe‚ fled to the colonies‚ there are also multiple different aspects of

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    Slavery: Southern Slavery from 1607 to 1775 In 1607 Jamestown‚ the first successful English colony‚ was founded. A mere twelve years later the first African slaves would be introduced to the colony‚ and throughout the 17th century and early and mid-18th century their usefulness would increase and they would become the saviors of the Southern colonies. The growth of slavery in these colonies was brought on in large part by geographic‚ economic‚ and social factors of this time. Economically‚ slavery

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    Toby Goldman AP U.S History Essay 2 Organized colonial resistance began between the years 1763-1776. The policies of Britain toward their American colonies over this time period escalated tension between the two‚ and finally led to the rejection of Royal power by the colonies. The British policies caused this outcome because they threatened the colonists’ republican values. These were ideals adapted from the early classical Greek and Roman republics‚ as well as from laws established by the British

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    1A Mr. Murphy 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

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    thought they deserved. The English believed that the best way to go about this was to colonize the New World. Subsequently‚ many colonies began to develop‚ and of these colonies‚ Massachusetts and Virginia were the most well-known. The early settlements of the Massachusetts and Virginia were both established by similar groups of people at the same time; however‚ their contrasting beginnings as a colony‚ views on religion‚ and means of economic stability created two different politics and economic systems

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    1763 From the very beginning the American colonies were a revolutionary force waiting to be unleashed. Though there were many things that led up to the American Revolution many historians think that the events that took place in the year 1763 were huge turning points in the road to the revolution. The year 1763 changed the way a lot of colonists felt towards England and vise versa. There were Many things that took place in 1763 I will talk about three of them‚ The French and Indian war (also know

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    The Brave New World is a utopian society from their soma loving Deltas to their perfect living conditions. In spite of relating The Brave New World to the nature of society within North America today to prove how incomparable North America is today to the utopian society. Ways to prove of The Brave New World of being a utopian society compared to North America today is the happiness that is expressed throughout the book from their love for soma to their orgy-porgy rituals. While in North America

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