ABOLITIONISTS AND AMERICAN SLAVERY It is historian James Brewer Stewart’s thesis that the massive social changes and revivalism in the 1820’s had started New England’s abolitionist crusade against slavery. Revivalism had given a powerful impact to abolitionism in the eighteenth century. As Protestants struggled to overcome the adversities of immense new challenges‚ the abolitionists’ crusade for immediate emancipation also took form. During the Great Revivals‚ people dreamed of a glorious era of a nation
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the Spanish Inquistion and enforce conformity to the Catholic faith. England embraced the Protestant Revolution with its split with the Catholic Church and fostered many Protestant sects. The uniformity of religion in Spain led to a zealous Catholic population who were driven to convert the natives of the New World. In contrast‚ the religious diversity of England to persecutions and many Englishmen sought freedom in the New World. Thus‚ the Spanish and English colonies followed a similar pattern of
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distinct attributes. Once established‚ the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern. Each of these had specific developments that were unique to the regions. Though there were many similarities in the development of the New England‚ Middle and Southern Colonies‚ they were very different: politically‚ socially‚ and economically. The three colonies all had comparable similarities‚ as they were all democratic. But they ran their democratic
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Puritans were religious exiles that left their home of England and settled in the New England states of Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ Maine‚ and New Hampshire. This would later be known as the “Mass Bay Colony”. From 1630 – 1643 over 9‚000 people migrated from England. The Puritans believed they would “purify and reform” their own religion by creating a “righteous Utopia” which would break ties from Catholicism and the rule of the Kings of England. They were led by John Winthrop who was also a lawyer
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greatest European empires: Spain and Portugal. Their curiosity for what lay beyond the vast seas of the Atlantic is responsible for the world in which we live today. As these empires embarked on their journey overseas‚ their accidental discovery of the New World yielded many profitable resources. European colonization of the American began with the Spanish landing in the islands of the Caribbean and the Portuguese landing on the coast of Brazil. Upon setting foot in the new world‚ the Spanish and Portuguese
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The governments of England and France differ greatly in many ways such the following: they are two completely different forms of government‚ absolutism and constitutionalism‚ but they are in many ways similar partly because they both began as absolutist forms of government. Absolutist France was a form government run by one person who had almost full control over everything‚ and Constitutionalist England was run by a number of people with a great deal of power. Even the rulers were required to
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Transportation was a viable avenue for England to rid itself of criminals. Many individuals and complete families where transported‚ first‚ to the American colonies and then to Australia and its surrounding islands of Van Diemen’s Land. Through this type of punishment the United Kingdom hoped to rid itself of variants and to begin colonization of a new colony in a distant land in hopes of further expanding the empire. By expanding the empire through transportation these convicts brought with them
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Differences between the Chesapeake Bay and New England ColoniesThere are many key differences that distinguish the inhabitants of the New England colonies from those of the Chesapeake Bay colonies. These dissimilarities include but are not limited to the differences between the social structure‚ family life‚ forms of government‚ religion‚ and the lives of indentured servants and children in the two colonies. The social structure and family life of the two colonies varied greatly. The inhabitants
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The United States: America’s New Spain As much of Latin America shed itself of Spanish colonial rule‚ the British and Americans soon preyed over the region much similarly to Iberian powers as portrayed in the 1914 Chicago Tribune cartoon‚ “What the United States has Fought For.” During the nineteenth century‚ the British exerted its dominance over Latin America through investment‚ half of the region’s ten billion dollar debt owed to the British by 1914. However‚ the United States soon eclipsed
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important land to many in Europe countries because it was unexplored and new. The first settlement in America was in Jamestown‚ Virginia also known as the Chesapeake colony. But they weren’t the only ones to come to America there was also the New England colonies that came to for different reasons than the Chesapeake colonies. One of the reason was for religious purposes‚ the Chesapeake colonies came for economic reasons and the New England also economic but mostly religion because they wanted separation
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