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    During the seventeenth and eighteenth century‚ both Puritanism and the Great Awakening played crucial roles in developing American society by paving the way to the development of democracy‚ by establishing a culture governed by ethics and morals‚ and by creating a united and independent society. The Puritans referred to motley "group of religious reformers who emerged within the Church of England" and "shared a common Calvinist theology" (Heyrman‚ 2002). Their opposition to the Anglican Church and

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne effectively portrays the Puritan society in a Dark Romantic point of view within The Scarlet Letter. He uses characters such as Hester Prynne‚ Reverend Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth to show the dim side of emotions. Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne uses these three main characters to show the responsibility one should take for his actions‚ the internal suffering caused by guilt‚ and the dangerous effects of giving into evil. Puritan Minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale’s role within

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    TEACHING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A Guide for Instructors to accompany Nash/Jeffrey/Howe/Frederick/Davis/Winkler/Mires/Pestana THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Creating a Nation and a Society Seventh Edition Mark Simon York College New York Boston San Francisco London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal This work is protected by United States copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student

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    1. Write balanced net ionic equations for all reactions that occurred during Activity I. 2. Identify the color of the mineral oil layer in the test tube when each of the following species is present: I2‚ Br2‚ Cl2‚ I–‚ Br–‚ and Cl–. 3. Identify the color that should have been present in the mineral oil layer in test tubes 1–6 if no reaction had occurred in any of the test tubes. Explain your answer. 4. Use the answers to the first three questions to create an activity series of metals

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    Women in the Puritan Society Rights for women in the Puritan community were very scarce. The women lacked rights because men were seen as superior to them. Even though men were the ultimate leaders of the Puritan community‚ women still played a vital role throughout their society. With the limited rights women possessed‚ they impacted the Puritan community in many ways. Puritan women had little to no rights back then; however‚ they did play an important role in the Puritan society through their

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    1.The Puritans and the Quakers responded to the social and political pressures caused by their immigration to the new world by attempting to create a Utopian society but they had deeply failed due to disease and illness and created the opposite of what they wanted‚ a dystopia. This is an imperfect community. The Puritans had soon turned on most of their religious beliefs once the Quakers had appeared in their community‚ and their religious views were different than each other. The Quakers believed

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    The puritan story was a story of many things; from the landing of the first group of puritans in New England‚ to the formation and trouble of the bay colony bible commonwealth‚ to the puritans versus Indians‚ ending with the New England family. This story wouldn’t be anything without the help of the one and only King Henry VIII. It was King’s‚ tie breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s that launch the reformation of the protestant church. The reformation of the church led to a group

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    The Puritans’ ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies. They valued the importance of church and state bound as one. They also had that drive to work hard and be prosperous economically. But lastly‚ the Puritans had socially adopted the idea of the importance of God and living all for him. All of the ideas had influenced the development of the New England colonies The Puritans values the church and was the center of their town. The

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    How successful were the Labour Government reforms of 1945-51 in improving social and economic conditions? From 1945 to 1951‚ Clement Attlee was prime minister of the Labour Government. He aimed to improve the Social and Economic Conditions. The main aims to improve the social conditions were: to create a fairer society and improve the lives of ordinary people‚ build on the recommendations of the Beveridge Report‚ and slay the five giants (Want‚ Disease‚ Squalor‚ Ignorance‚ and Idleness). The main

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    The Virginians were better off than the Puritans were‚ because they had tobacco for a cash crop‚ they had a longer growing season‚ and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans‚ and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford’s ways of leading their colonies were similar‚ yet so very different. Smith’s main concern was to make money and

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