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    When first English settlers began arriving in America in the 1700’s they mainly settled in two regions - New England and the Chesapeake. Even though both groups of people were English by origin‚ they had developed two very different societies. Each group had it’s own beliefs and expectations of what they will find in this new world‚ and the results of their settlement were very different as well. When the ship headed for Virginia left England in 1635‚ it was filled mostly with men in their twenties

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    compassion inherent in Christianity. However‚ many settlers claimed the “new” land in the name of God and asserted that they acted in perfect harmony with biblical ideals. With similar intentions‚ John Winthrop and his fellow settlers travelled to Massachusetts Bay to establish a colony based on Puritan ideals. While on the way to the new colony‚ Winthrop delivers a sermon entitled "A Model of Christian Charity" to dictate the ideals his Puritan colony would have to follow to please God. Indeed‚ Winthrop’s

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    Running head: What type of man that girls are attracted to? I. INTRODUCTION: In the modern life‚ the society is more and more developed. The relationships between the citizens are more complicated too. There is no research can point out exactly what is the perfect kind of men attract to women. Every woman has the heart to look ‚ feel their assessment ‚and realize what they want from their man. Some people choose a tall man‚ handsome‚ psychological‚ caring person who they love. But

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    Relations: A closer look at the relationships between Native Americans and European settlers during the seventeenth century At the start of the seventeenth century‚ Native Americans greeted European settlers with much excitement. They regarded settlers as strange‚ but were interested to learn about the new tools and weapons Europeans brought with them. The native people were more than accommodating to the settlers‚ but as time passed‚ Europeans took advantage of their generosity. “Once these newcomers

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    prosperity as having the most political influence while English saw it as having more available commodities but both took on the same attitude in order to achieve it. From the very beginning it was evident how different Native Americans were from English settlers. One particular difference‚ land use‚ indirectly caused a huge divide in how each group obtained fortune. This difference lead to a difference in how each defined property which finally lead to a difference in how one used that property to obtain

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    I have chosen 2 sections from chapter 13 and/or 14 to explain why it is important as Americans to have this knowledge. I will be telling you about 13.2 and 14.6 because these two sections were important in today’s world some examples of these sections are president Jackson vetoing bills and lots of people having to overcome stereotypes. First‚ I will be addressing the essential question of chapter 13 “What did it mean to be an American in the early 1800s?” To be an American in the 1800’s was to show

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    Native Land to whites was the Indian Intercourse Act (1790). This action stated that Indians who owned land could not have it taken away unless it was given to white settlers or taken by the "right of conquest." In other words‚ this act ensured that white settlers would harass and attack Indians in order to compel them to cede their land to whites‚ and if they did not then white settlers had the right to exercise their "right of conquest" over Indian land to take it by force. On a religious level‚ the

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    between settlers and Native Americans often led to conflict between them. White settlers believed they could make better use of the land than Native Americans. The government took the side of the settlers and pushed the Native Americans into reservations to give settlers the land. Beliefs on land use and government strongly differed between Native Americans and settlers. Many settlers felt justified in taking Native American land for they believed they would be more productive with it. Settlers also

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    their hope was to yield a profit in return. The Virginia Company sent over 150 passengers for the first voyage in April of the year 1607. The Virginia Company was a stock company that created to establish settlements in the New World by King James I . Another reason why settlers came to the new world was because of the glory‚ new land‚ new opportunities‚ religious freedom gold‚ dreams of expansion. The First settlers of Jamestown encountered problem of

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    Tasman’s crew. Tasman and his crew retreated and never came back to New Zealand. James cook was the second man to set sail to the great southern continent that Tasman did not set foot on in 1769. He was successful to interact with the Maoris and his crew were very attracted to Maori women‚ they made children with them and also might have introduced sexual diseases to the Maori. Cook also introduced metal‚ wool‚ guns pigs and potatoes through trading this benefited both races because the Maori got

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