Reflective Essay (9/14/2014) Compare the early development of New England with the Chesapeake as depicted in Massachusetts and Virginia colonies. How do the governing structures differ and what do they tell us about the early challenges the two colonies faced? In 1606‚ King James I re-initiated England’s efforts to establish a viable colony in the New World. The 1606 Charter was granted to the Virginia Company for the establishment of a colony in the Chesapeake region of North America. On May
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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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Multicultural Compare/Contrast Every culture around the world differs in some way or another. There are three cultural differences that specifically differ from that of southern American culture. These three concepts are respecting ones elders from “Or Else‚ the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim‚ respect for the dead in “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe‚ and racial equality from “The Day They Burned The Books” by Jean Rhys. “Or Else‚ the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim is a short story about the
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The New England colonies and the Southern colonies are slightly similar in some aspects‚ but drastically different in most. For example the new england colonies were strictly puritan and they did not tolerate any other religion but the southern colonies were not dominated by a single religion which gave way to more liberal attitudes and some religious freedom. The economy of New England was powered mostly the manufacturing in factories‚ whereas the Southern colonies’ economies were more agriculturally
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Early life in the Americas consisted of great diversity as well as some similarities between colonies. During the colonial time period from about the 1600’s through the 1700’s‚ the thirteen original colonies were founded and divided among three major sections known as the New England colonies‚ the Middle colonies‚ and the Southern colonies. The New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut‚ and New Hampshire. The Middle colonies contained New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania
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St. Peter ’s Basilica in the same city and revolutionized classical architecture with his invention of the giant order of pilasters. Also the "Pietà" and the "David"‚ were two of his best-known works were sculpted before he turned thirty. His major early work was a "Pieta"‚ commissioned by a French cardinal and installed in Old Saint Peter ’s in the Vatican. Michelangelo ’s "Pieta" is a very young Virgin of heroic stature holding the lifeless‚ smaller body of her grown son‚ with the sweet expression
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of different religious groups. The social interactions in the northern colonies differed greatly from those of the southern colonies. The northern colonies’ families‚ like in New England‚ centered around patriarchy and male predominance. The southern colonies had an unbalanced ratio of males to females with a male majority. This resulted in greater independence for females. Women had more power and played a more dominant role southern culture. They owned plantations and were usually head of the household
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The New England and Southern Colonies When the thirteen colonies were finally established in America‚ they were divided into three geographic areas. Two of them were the New England Colonies (Connecticut‚ Rhode Island‚ New Hampshire‚ and Massachusetts) and the Southern colonies (South Carolina‚ North Carolina‚ Virginia‚ Maryland‚ and Georgia). Although they had many things in common‚ both of them had their own religious freedoms‚ crop harvests‚ economies‚ and lifestyles by the end of the seventeenth
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The existence of slavery lasted during the time of the colonies and continued when the colonies became the United States of America as a whole. Given that slavery was spread out across multiple colonies and states in the United States‚ it is safe to assume there was a great similarity and difference in slavery between the northern and southern regions. Slaves were treated as property‚ though their owners may have been more abusive in the South due to their needs for a higher quantity of workers to
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had no military. They were never at war because of their dry climate and on each side was water. The River Dynasties in China they were constantly at war and had no obstacles. China and its dynasties are the foundation of this long history. These early dynasties were long recorded and remembered through the oral history. The Xia dynasty was the first dynasty of Ancient China to exist. The Xia Dynasty began in 2100 B.C. and lasted up to 1800 B.C. The period was the beginning of a class society in
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