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    THE FILIPINO REVOLTS AGAINST SPAIN Filipino’s love Freedom! Filipino’s rebelled! Unhappy that’s what I feel like the Filipino’s feeling when they are under the Spaniards. When I read again this chapter‚ I feel I’m one of them I’m in that time and place when the revolt against Spain is held. Fighting too. This is the causes of Revolts: 1. Love for Freedom and Independence 2. Spanish encomendors abuses 3. Tribute (Residence tax) 4. Forced Labor (Polo) 5. Land Grabbing by the friars 6. Basi

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    Slavery in the British North American colonies differed depending what colony they are in. In places where slaves were the majority‚ they were treated differently as opposed to places with few slaves. In South Carolina‚ there were more African slaves than there were European settlers. In New England and the Middle Colonies‚ there were fewer slaves and fewer plantations for the slaves to work on. Virginia and Maryland had lots of slaves‚ in addition to lots of tobacco plantations to work on; but

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    Southern Colonies The southern colonies consisted of five of the first thirteen colonies‚ which were North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ and Virginia. Where the climate was the warmest out of the three colonial regions‚ which to those living there was a good thing because survival in the winter was easier for them. Even back in the day‚ money has been an issue for many. This is why many colonist from New England decided to move to the Southern Colonies. In the southern colonies‚ the

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    PENGUIN BOOKS AMERICAN COLONIES Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic‚ which won the 1996 Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States‚ edited by Eric Foner‚ award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton

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    experienced this. They had to think of ways to bring people into their new colony and ways to make their colony strive. Through sponsors giving out land and hard work‚ the people were able to make a go of New Netherlands. Eventually‚ King Charles II granted all of the land that included New Netherlands to his brother‚ the Duke of York. Duke of York eventually renamed New Netherlands‚ New York. If I would have to pick a colony to live in during the colonial period‚ it would definitely have been New

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    inexcusable harsh treatments that they had to tolerate. This revolt has been considered both the best thing that Haiti had ever experienced and also the most disastrous. The Haitian slave revolution was justified because of the harsh working conditions within the plantations‚ the callous living conditions‚ and the unbelievable successes. The working conditions on the plantations within Saint Dominique provided reasoning for the slaves to revolt. During the rebellion‚ the plantations were the main workplace

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    settle. There are many primary motivations for moving to different colonies‚ and in this essay I will focus on the Middle Colonies. The Middle Colonies include New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ and Delaware. Each of these colonies has their own special attractions about them‚ but one of the main reasons colonists came there was because they offered religious tolerance. Now I will break up each individual colony and the reason it was created and how it has affected it in modern times

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    tolerance they themselves obtained from different beliefs. Due to this lack of tolerance people began forming new colonies. England had three colonial groups identified as the New England‚ Middle and Southern colonies. Three admirable colonies that may be pointed out from each group are Massachusetts from the New England colonies‚ Pennsylvania from the Middle and Maryland the Southern colonies. Massachusetts has played a significant role in American history‚ most importantly in the lives of Puritans

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    The thirteen colonies that joined together to become the United States of America were but a part of the first British Empire. They were the product of a broad and dramatic expansion of England that began with the establishment of “plantations” in Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and reached a peak with the conquest of Canada and the extension of British influence over India during the 1760s. In the New World alone at the time of the American Revolution Britain had close to two dozen

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    Independence‚ The Constitution‚ and The Bill of Rights. The Great Awakening swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It was a turning point back to religion and away from secular worldly views. People such as Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield presented a new Fire and Brimstone style of preaching. the difference between Old Lights and New Lights becomes prominent; Old Lights were skeptical and did not approve of emotional and drama of these revivalists. New Lights were emotional and dramatic

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