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    It is no secret that almost all Puritans came to the New World for religious freedom. That all they wanted to do is purify the Church of England from catholic practices that still intertwined within the church. So they sailed to the New World and tried to show the rest of England of what a good and pure religion looked like without catholic influence.Their morals and religion heavily influence the economy‚ they would have‚ how they would govern and how they were to live. The Puritan economy was

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    People were learning self­reliance and self­government. The attempts to strengthen the Church of England in America and to transform the colonies into royal provinces only fanned the spirit of independence which they came to America for. But the Americans did owe much of their prosperity to the help of the British government. It was the protection of the British navy that made sure Spain‚ Holland‚ and France wouldn’t wipe out their newly made settlements

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    aspect of life in the American colonies and the European countries who ruled them. The French and Indian War greatly altered all areas of political‚ economic‚ and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies such as making it a more strict and more organized government‚ the great debt that Britain was put into‚ and the ideas of what actions to take next. Out of all of the aspects that were altered between Britain and the American colonies during the French and Indian

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    differed significantly from Britain. In the course of a century‚ the colonies had diverged markedly from Britain. A variety of long-run trends gave the 13 American colonies certain common characteristics which made them very different from England. What were some of these characteristics? 1. The absence of a titled aristocracy The colonies had no legally privileged social classes‚ and they did not have many of the other characteristics of a monarchical society. They had no standing army and had

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    were thirteen original colonies in the North American region. The first English colonies settled off the coast of the Atlantic and started expanding west. The colonies have been placed into three regions the New England colonies‚ Middle colonies‚ and the Southern colonies. New England colonies consisted of (New Hampshire‚ Rode Island‚ Connecticut‚ and Massachusetts). The Middle colonies consisted of (New York‚ Pennsylvania‚ New Jersey‚ and Delaware). The Southern colonies consisted of (The Carolinas

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    leading factors that lead a colony to success. These two factors are religion and economics or money. Which factor is more important? In my opinion‚ economics is more important because the colonists had many issues getting necessities‚ and if they had enough money for all that‚ their problems would all basically be gone. Economic stability and the success of the mercantile system made the establishment of the colonies in North America possible. The Massachusetts Bay colony was established in 1691 by

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    Did Pudge “seek a great perhaps?” I think that Pudge did seek his great perhaps because he accomplished so much more at Culver Creek than he did in Florida. He was never really noticed in Florida as he was in Alabama‚ he didn’t seem to be outgoing and social but all that changed. Pudge arrived and instantly found a “friend” in Chip Martin. Very soon after he met Chip‚ he then met Alaska Young. Instantly‚ he fell in love with her. He never saw how much of a bitch she actually was. Pudge didn’t

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    Why did tension increase in Europe from 1900 to 1014?There are various factors that amplified the tensions in Europe from 1900 to 1914. A few of the major factors were International rivalry‚ the arms race‚ colonialism and the Crisis ’s of Morocco and Bosnia. These factors‚ alongside numerous others contributed to fuelling the First World War. International rivalry was‚ debatably‚ the biggest factor that caused the First World War. As the European powers such as Britain‚ France and Russia had been

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    The American Revolution was the cause of a buildup of events. The rise of the revolution was brought on by a series of events‚ these are the main reasons as to why the American Revolution happened‚ the Intolerable Acts and the formation of the Stamp Act Congress. The Intolerable acts were a set of laws that colonists deemed unfair. These acts were put into place after the Boston Tea Party. The first act was the Boston Port Act the closed the port of Boston until the Dutch East India Company got

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    DBQ: British and American Colonies Relations The French and Indian war affected the relations between the British and the American colonies through political turmoil‚ economical debt leading to strict taxation‚ and ideological differences which increased colonial violence. These sources of anger and resentment created a permanent gap between Britain and the American Colonies that would eventually lead to a brutal revolution. The French lost the entirety of their North American possessions after

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