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    became thirteen colonies. These colonies were divided into sections. New England which was: Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island‚ New Hampshire‚ and Connecticut. The Middle Colonies which were: Pennsylvania‚ Maryland‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ and Delaware. Last but not least‚ Southern Colonies consisted of: Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ and Georgia. Out of these thirteen colonies‚ I’d want to live in the Massachusetts‚ a colony in the New England section. Massachusetts was a great colony to live in

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    Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by the people of English origin‚ by 1700 the regions evolved into two distinct societies. This difference occurred because the New England colonies was based off of escaping religious persecution while the Chesapeake colonies was based off of profiting of natural resources. Document A was a speech called A Model of Christian Charity by John Winthrop‚ a Puritan traveling to New England for religious freedom. It was written on board

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    willingness to sacrifice his life for a mission can be compared to the Roanoke Colonists. Sadly‚ there are not any colonists that could have told their tale. Their life story would have appeared as a plot line in a horror movie. The mystery behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke can be summed up into two theories: The colonists migrated and Revenge-seeking Indians cut their thread of life merciless. Since John White’s

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    The Colonies The early settlers to this great country fled from Europe to escape religious oppression. Most left their country because they were getting persecuted or even killed because of their religion. Although these people where many different denominations like‚ Catholic‚ Quakers‚ and Puritans‚ they all came to escape from religious persecution‚ each group varied on how their religion influenced their government. One of the first denominations to settle in the New World was the Puritans

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    Developments of New England colonies are rapid in the early 1600s. Colonies developments are influenced by the Puritans‚ who immigrate to America after protesting against the Church of England fearing religious persecution. The Puritans idea of representative democracy‚ strict values of frugality‚ and society based solely around the church shaped the development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660s. The Puritans idea of a representative democracy greatly influenced the development

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    Georgia Colony In 1932‚ James Oglethorpe led a group of trustees that chartered to Georgia and made a colony to perform a social experiment on man’s capacity to improve. Not long after the colony began‚ the colonists began to complain and disapprove of the government they were under. The trustees set strict rules and did not give the settlers the same benefits that other colonies got. By the 1950’s‚ all of the trustees gave up on their experiment and Georgia became a royal colony. The trustees

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    HISTORY 1301 ~ AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 C H A P T E R 2 NEW WORLD EXPERIMENTS: ENGLAND’S SEVENTEENTHCENTURY COLONIES SUMMARY In the seventeenth century‚ different and sometimes disparate groups of English settlers established several colonies in North America. The English way of colonization differed from that of the Spanish in that English colonization did not emanate from a desire to create a centralized empire in the New World. Breaking Away English migration to the New World was part

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    America‚ France‚ and Haiti was the impact of political ideas from the Enlightenment. Although most Enlightenment writers are cautious about political reform‚ their confidence in reason and progress inspired a new generation to fight for greater freedom from oppressive governments. The contradiction between slavery and the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality was all too evident to the enslaved and the free people of color. The two most important Enlightenment references for late-eighteenth-century

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    Although the Chesapeake Colonies and New England Colonies were settled at around the same time‚ the specific situations affecting each establishment altered the way that they developed. Jamestown was the first settlement on May 24‚ 1607. The Virginia Company of London‚ a joint-stock firm‚ commissioned it. The Jamestown colonists had increased pressure to strike it rich‚ because of the threat of abandonment in the wilderness. The first settlement in the New England region was Plymouth‚ which was founded

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    Alex Hill Contrary to what many people in this country believe‚ slavery took place in the North and the South. In fact‚ Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery. By the year 1700‚ Rhode Island had surpassed Massachusetts as the chief importer of slaves in the north. Major slave ports included Boston‚ Salem‚ Providence‚ and New London. The tariffs that were enforced upon slave imports were used to pay for community projects‚ such as repairs to roads and bridges. At the beginning

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