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    Zhong Zhu Mrs. Capalbo US I Honors‚ Pd. 2 6 December 2012 Outline I. Afri. In Amer. A. Climate in South & effect on slave pop. 1. Labor = life-draining 2. S. Carolina rice & indigo plants. cost lives of many male slaves→Result→Fresh slave imports sustain cruel conditions B. Slaves of tobacco growing Chesapeake & their pop. growth 1. Tobacco less demanding than crops of deep South – plants. lrgr+closer to one another than rice & indigo plants a. Size+proxim

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    their very genesis‚ the New England and Chesapeake Colonies displayed stark differences and contrasts. The former was founded mostly for religious reasons and the latter for purely economic ones. Though both regions were in relatively close proximity‚ comparably‚ they greatly differed religiously‚ politically‚ socially‚ and morally (in so far as their perception/exploitation of Native Americans was concerned). The exploration of these different colonies will prove to be particularly fruitful due to the

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    values and ideas of what is “right.” As a result‚ one may develop an idea of justice that seems corrupt to someone who is familiar with a different system of laws. Franz Kafka presents this scenario in his short story‚ “In the Penal Colony.” The officer of the penal colony believes that justice is the fulfillment of what is morally right through the violent punishment of all persons suspicious of breaking the law. Kafka invites his readers to consider that this idea of justice that contrasts

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    Rhode Island. This proves that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was only religiously tolerant to Puritans and gave others different political rights. Moreover‚ 1564 at Fort Caroline was completed only to survive a year till the Spanish St. Augustine. Commander Pedro Avilés wrote to King Philip II that he had “hanged all those we had found in because . . . they were scattering the odious Lutheran doctrine in these Provinces.” Furthermore‚ Puritan Boston believed Catholics and other Non-Puritans were anathemas

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    Background and Emergence of Democracy in the British North American Colonies Beginning in the early 1600’s‚ North America experienced a flood of emigrants from England who were searching for religious freedom‚ an escape from political oppression‚ and economic opportunity. Their emigration from England was not forced upon them by the government‚ but offered by private groups whose chief motive was profit. The emergence of Democracy in colonial America can be attributed to the coming about

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    The Northern and Southern colonies had many similarities between the years of 1607 to 1763‚ but the idea that they were more similar than different is vastly incorrect. The economy in the Southern colonies was based off of planting and slave labor‚ which was very common‚ while land in the Northern colonies‚ for the most part‚ was not fertile enough to support planting. Another difference between the North and South was that government and the church had very close ties in the North‚ compared to a

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    Question: What factors pulled the colonies away from Britain? The separation of the thirteen colonies from Mother England cannot be attributed to one single factor. Years of history were required before the revolution was to take place‚ and within these years several factors built upon one another. These few however‚ stick out more than others: distance‚ taxation‚ and progressive pamphlets. Distance played a crucial role in driving the colonists away from Mother England. To have a simple

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    The rapid growth of colonies in the 18th century was mainly due to plantations that brought the benefit of buying more imported goods from their mother country‚ but it also led to barbarous slavery. It is mentioned‚ "To pay for these goods the colonists produced more and more tobacco‚ rice‚ indigo‚ wheat fish‚ tar - indeed‚ anything that would supply the income necessary to purchase additional imports‚" (Cobbs 90). The market started to grow as the colonists gained interest in British imported goods

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    Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia

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    Comparison of the New England and Chesapeake Bay Regions During the 1700’s‚ people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives‚ others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy‚ religion‚ and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New

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