In the 16th and 17th centuries many colonies were starting to appear all over the Eastern Cost of America. All of Europe countries were interested in colonies‚ from Spain to England and even France. To the naked eye these colonies may have seemed very similar‚ but they were very different. Most of the population of these colonies arrived on boats that sailed from various European countries. Many colonies suffered through the early years from famine and death‚ and also poor planning. If we were
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Chapter 4- storyline The Chesapeake said life was nasty‚ brutish‚ and short because there were diseases‚ the climate was unhealthy and life expectancy was less than 20 years of age. Although life was unhealthy for humans‚ it was healthy enough to grow tobacco. They didn’t have anybody to plant the tobacco because life expectancy was short and people were dying because of the harsh diseases‚ so they got indentured servants‚ who were people who voluntarily mortgaged the sweat of their bodies for several
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The Middle and Northern colonies differed considerably in their geographical aspects‚ leading to dissimilar social and political features. The Middle colonies‚ including New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Delaware all shared the benefit of flat land and rich soil‚ while the New England Colonies were left with a rocky landscape that made farming difficult. Thus‚ the New England colonies‚ including Rhode Island‚ Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ and New Hampshire thrived on lumber and fish‚ rather than
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British Literature Professor Signorotti July 19‚ 2013 During the eighteenth century in England‚ many people believed that there was a major need for social and political reform. Satirists would often criticize English life through their literature. Two of the most important satirists of this period were Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Jonathan Swift was an irish writer who lived in England‚ and is best known for his piece‚ Gulliver’s Travels. Alexander Pope was a catholic and it can be
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Virginia Colonies Massachusetts and Virginia were two of the early colonies in the new world. Although these two colonies originated from the same place they are very different. Virginia needed slaves for labor while the citizens of Massachusetts worked in production and had less slaves or indentured servants. Virginia traded cash crops such as tobacco and the colonists in Massachusetts build ships and traded fur among other things. While Massachusetts and Virginia were both British colonies‚ they
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Indeed‚ Phillis Wheatley’s poem‚ “To the University of Cambridge‚ in New England‚” can be seen as a radical movement of that particular time period. It was not seen as proper for an African American slave to address herself‚ with such authority‚ towards white high class. Therefore‚ I believe that Wheatley purposely identified the clear distinction between her race and that of the upper class white members of society. I imagine that one of Wheatley’s drives‚ for sharing this poem‚ consisted of a cautious
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Slavery in the British Colonies When the Americas were founded many European nations were trying to establish colonies. There were many failures but eventually they succeeded. Rich Europeans such as the British had no idea how to work the land‚ so they needed someone to do it for them. Although the British essentially were iffy about slavery‚ they slowly began getting rid of indentured servants‚ installing slavery‚ and then making slavery the major labor force system. In 1606 British
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Our Colony is located in the Southern part of the Colonies. Our location is near South Carolina because of the land is extremely fertile and the weather conditions that are not too detrimental to our way of life. The weather in our region is the warmest of all the regions. The Winters are very mild and are not hard to survive. The Summer is hot and humid. The Spring and Fall are crisp and mild with average temperatures. We need fish‚ forest (timber)‚ and fertile agricultural land.We get food by
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sexualities confused and provided points of misunderstanding in the colonial era of America that contributed to a change in the societies. In the English colonies‚ the perceptions of women’s sexualities were turned on their heads. In the Chesapeake colonies‚ women were frequently freed from the usual social expectations regarding sexuality. In contemporary England‚ women were‚ “advised to maintain a modest demeanor.
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Religion impacted colonial development in seventeenth- century North America by causing social‚ political‚ and economic spheres of colonial life in different regions to be affected by religious expectations. Social expectations created by religion in the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies were very different from one another due to the branch of Christianity to settle in the area. In the Chesapeake area‚ Catholics and Protestants settled there. Because they were not interested in
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