Noah Webster Junior was born on October 16‚ 1758 in West Hartford‚ Connecticut. His father was a justice of the peace‚ and a farmer. At the age of six‚ Webster started going to a one room primary school. When he got older he complained about school and called the teachers‚ “Drags of humanity” and many say that is why he wrote when he was older because he wanted to better the schools of the nation. When he was 14‚ he started getting tutored in Latin and Greek from pastor to prepare for entrance
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reasons. The New England colonies were searching for religious freedom from the Church of England‚ whereas the Chesapeake colonies were striving for economic growth. The New England colonies consisted of the settlements of Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ Connecticut Colony‚ Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Province of New Hampshire. Most‚ if not all‚ of these colonies were mainly settled by religious motivation. They did not want to be told by what means they could or could not worship
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John Adams‚ who was a significant part of United States history‚ once said‚ "The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." Between 1642 and 1648 England gives the colonies a period of Salutary Neglect in which they are fighting a civil war. During this time‚ the colonies develop an even stronger sense of unity and rebellion against authority. The colonists’ location and demography‚ autonomous institutions‚ and unifying measures
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ayflower Compact The Mayflower Compact was written around 1620 in Plymouth. It established a government that consented to the will of the majority and was an early form of democracy. Fundamental Orders The colony of Connecticut is only noteworthy in its creation of the Fundamental Orders. This was the first constitution in America and created a bicameral legislature. New England Confederation Established in 1643‚ the New England Confederation was an alliance of several colonies that established
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1677 to Wethersfield‚ Connecticut. Joseph Rowlandson died 24 November 1678 after preaching a powerful fast-day jeremiad. Mary Rowlandson remarried 6 Aug 1679 to Captain Samuel Talcott. He died in 1691; she lived until 1710. Disgrace later came to the family: her son Joseph got his brother-in-law drunk and sold him into servitude in Virginia. While a prisoner‚ Mary Rowlandson travelled some 150 miles‚ from Lancaster to Menamaset then north to Northfield and across the Connecticut river to meet with
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COMPOSER REPORT COMPOSER: Charles Edward Ives BORN: October 20‚ 1874 in Danbury‚ Connecticut DIED: May 19‚ 1954 in New York City‚ New York STYLE PERIOD: Modernism LIFE: Ives was the son of Mary Parmelee and George Ives‚ a U.S. Army bandmaster during the Civil War. He used to watch his father ’s band play at the Danbury town square. His father gave him his first lessons in music and encouraged him to experiment with different sounds. At the age of fourteen‚ Ives became a church organist
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By 1700‚ New England and the Chesapeake region became two distinct societies‚ differentiating in religion‚ social‚ and political development. New England included Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ Plymouth‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut‚ and New Haven (which eventually became a part of Connecticut.) They mostly consisted of Puritan Separatists‚ who sought religious freedom. "1. We intend by God’s grace‚ as soon as we can‚ with all convenient speed‚ to procure some Godly and faithful minister with whom we
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Historical Terms Chapters 3-5 Calvinism: Who or what: A Protestant religious movement (inspired by Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation)‚ Calvinists followed John Calvin and his text Institutes of the Christian Religion that taught of an all powerful God and of sinful‚ weak and wicked humans. Where: Calvin started his teachings in Geneva‚ Switzerland yet his ideals spread across Western Europe and ultimately into America. When: 1530’s and beyond Historical Importance: Much of Calvin’s
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Vladir Diaz Thirteen Colonies The thirteen colonies in the United States are‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Delaware‚ Maryland‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina and Georgia. Each one of them has their own story characteristics that I’ll be listing them in the following paragraphs. Massachusetts was founded on 1630 by John Winthrop and others. Their major industry consists of fishing‚ corn‚ livestock‚ lumbering‚ shipbuilding and their
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Miriam Hibbard APUSH Mr. Baker 9/19/13 Exploration and settlement in the new world helped England succeed in the age of colonization. The New England colonies‚ consisting of Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ and Rhode Island were some of the most successful early colonies. Though they faced difficulties early on‚ they were able to overcome them even more quickly than that of the Virginia colonies. The colonies in the Caribbean were settled for different reasons than the New England
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