The North & South Colonies The North & South Colonies Russell Byron-Kelly® October 6th‚ 2011 In the 1700’s The South and the North colonies were similar but also different. The South colonies were Agricultural because of all the crops they planted. The North was Commercial because they were right next to the ocean and could send ships to England and other countries. The south helped with the Cash Crop and the North help move the cash crop across the ocean. In this essay I’ll be talking about
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The British North American colonies grew considerably between 1600 and 1763. Imports and exports across the Atlantic caused a constant demand for labor in the colonies. The British colonies supplied raw goods as well as some manufactured goods for countries around the world especially in Europe. As the demand for cash crops and raw materials from the Americas grew‚ the demand for labor also increased. Trans-Atlantic interactions fostered continuity in the demand for labor in the British North American
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Bacon’s Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America‚ led by 29-year-old planter Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year In 1673‚ Nathaniel Bacon‚ a distant relative of Governor Berkeley‚ emigrated from England under murky circumstances and set up a small plantation on the James River. He rose rapidly in public esteem and was appointed to the
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How to measure development: 10/11/2013 1. PowerPoint: Economic: GDP‚ GNP/GDP per head capita‚ real GDP‚ GNI Social measures: Life expectancy‚ birth rate‚ adult literacy‚ and infant mortality‚ HDI. Happy Planet Index is an index of human well-being and environmental that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in July 2006 2. Read: HDI p.28-29 a) List the 3 components of the HDI Life expectancy‚ adult literacy rate and standard of living (income adjusted to local cost of
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period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious reasons. First‚ according to my textbook‚ the British originally sponsored trips over to the New World only after other countries were profiting from their collections of goods and new trade ports. Maybe other countries in Europe had begun settling the New World for religious concerns‚ but definitely not Britain. The British government was more concerned with staying up with other countries in Europe
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AP US History English Colonies in North America Before the seventeenth century‚ countries such as Portugal and Spain had controlled the rich lands of the Americas‚ and England was left out of the race due to religious conflict back home. However‚ when Queen Elizabeth came into power‚ England’s power also rose in the colonial game in the America. Some of the first colonies they gathered are the ones of Virginia and Carolina. They also acquired the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Rhode Island
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Spanish and the British colonized North America. These two nations were in competition for power. Through their government‚ these nations were able to get hold of the Native Americans‚ traded with them and were being able to create a complex society. In this essay‚ we are going to discuss about the similarities and differences of political‚ social‚ and economical of Spanish-Latin America to that of the British. First of all‚ let’s talk about the social structure of the Spanish-Latin America and the British-North
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Between the late 1500s and mid-late 1600s‚ there was a huge boom in the interests of colonization in the Americas. The British‚ French‚ and Spanish had sought after these new found lands for many different reasons. The intentions of the British and Spanish were similar in that most of their colonists were interested in economic benefits such as agricultural colonies that would yield cash crops for business. There were other intentions of claiming strategic lands in the name of their homelands. However
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He was the founder of the first mission in California‚ and was famous for converting thousands of Native Americans to Christianity‚ teaching the Native Americans Spanish‚ and introducing them to settled agriculture and skilled crafts. Foner writes‚ “Today‚ he is being considered by the Catholic Church for elevation to sainthood. But forced labor and disease took a heavy toll among native americans who lived at the missions Serra directed.” (Foner 165) How did the ideas of republicanism and liberalism
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Eighteenth Century British Colonies In the eighteenth century‚ the British Colonies in North America experienced many changes that helped form the identity of America. The demographic‚ ethnic‚ and social characters of Britain’s colonies were some of the major characteristics to be altered in the 1700s. The demographic character of Colonial America resulted in a swing in the balance of power between the colonies and England. In the beginning of the 1700s‚ a population that was initially less than
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