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    The English crown tried to reassert their authority on the colonies after restoring power to the throne after the civil wars. After Charles II was restored to the British throne‚ he hoped to control his colonies more firmly‚ but was shocked to find how much his orders were ignored by Massachusetts. He gave royal charters to Connecticut and Rohde island and implemented the Dominion of New England. They generally failed because the English crown had left the colonies in isolation for many years‚ while

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    Those living in the American colonies in the seventeenth century faced many challenges. These tensions of political‚ social‚ religious and economic natures came from abroad and within. Influences of the political and economic nature from abroad onto the established American colonies shifted the shape and nature of the colonies; whereas‚ the social and religious tensions from abroad tended to create new colonies. The Quakers‚ for instance‚ were a group of English Protestants who left England in

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    Change Why Transformation Efforts Fail by John P Kotter . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail 10 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0701J BEST OF HBR Leading Change Why Transformation Efforts Fail The

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    In the seventeenth century‚ American’s took religious very seriously. The American’s were not active communicants. One in fifteen people that was in the southern colonies was a member of the church. In the eighteenth century‚ a church became official. The religious belief and practice in the eighteenth century‚ it was not as demanding as in Puritan‚ New England and Quaker‚ Pennsylvania. The colonial Anglicans from England‚ was a lot more rational‚ formal and conservative with their modes of worship

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    the self-appointed leaders of the revolution‚ had more ambitious aims‚ fighting for the unification of Germany and constitutional monarchies. Many of these more ambitious aims were not to be achieved until much later‚ as ultimately the revolution failed‚ but what did they manage to achieve‚ and why did the revolution fail? Across the German states active revolution was fairly minor‚ isolated to Berlin‚ Rhineland‚ Silesia‚ Baden and some small peasant uprisings in the south-west. The Prussian army

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    The French and the English wanted to control the colonies. The American colonist thought of themselves as citizens of Great Britain. They were tied to Britain through trade and by the way that they were governed. The British restricted trade so the colonies had to rely on Britain for imported good and supplies. After the French and Indian War‚ the British wanted to control the expansion of the western territories. The Proclamation Act was created so that their would not settling beyond the Appalachian

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    11. As the seventeenth century wore on‚ regional differences continued to crystallize‚ most notably a. the use of indentured servants. b. loyalty to Enggland. c. the continuing rigidity of Puritanism. d. the breaking of the Atlanta economy. e. the importance of slave labor in the south./// in the south 12. The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable

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    Nineteenth-Century Britain. What was Chartism and Why Did it Fail? Thisassignment will analysewhat Chartism was and why it failed. Firstly‚ we will consider what Chartism was‚ secondly we will focus on two of the six main reasons that Chartism failed‚ these will includethe lack of middle class support and the radical nature of the Chartist claims although the Disunited Members and Leader‚ the mid Victorian boom and the loyalty of the army and police force to the government at this time were also

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    The reason the British tightened its control over the colonies is because after years of governing themselves they became used to it and were ignoring parliament’s laws because they have started governing themselves. The parliament saw an opportunity to help pay of national debts using the colonies and created 6 main Acts from 1763-1773 they were called Proclamation of 1763 which banned settlement into western lands‚ next there was the Sugar Act of 1764 which put tried to put a stop on smuggling

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    Increasing Power in the 17th Century Governmental systems in both France and England were greatly changing during the 17th Century. In England‚ absolute monarchies lost power while Parliament gained supremacy. France‚ on the other hand‚ saw Louis XIV strengthening his own offices and weakening both the Estates General and the local nobility. Absolutism‚ a political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler‚ was attempted by James I and Charles I of England‚ and Louis XIV of France

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