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    1607 Jamestown Va founded Virginia company founded by Captain John Smith. 1620 Mayflower Compact Plymouth founded 1619 House of Burgesses founded 1628 John Winthrop 1622 John Rolfe 1630 MA Bay Colony founded by John Winthrop 1632 Pequot war starts 1634 Maryland Colony founded 1636 Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams expelled 1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled 1638 Pequot war ended 1651 Navigation Act 1649 Maryland Toleraction Act 1639 Fundamental Orders of CT 1675 King Philips War

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    native rapper‚ Lupe Fiasco. The song depicts the word bitch in the many forms that it is used in today’s urban society. The song starts with a dark weary synthesizer and a heavy deep 808 drum pattern that reflects the sound that is used in many of today’s popular club/party songs. The words to the song shine a stereotypical light on “bad bitches‚” but there is a twist. Fiasco highlights 3 significant points which is the basis of the song‚ “Bitch bad‚ woman good‚ lady better” (Fiasco‚ Bitch Bad). By

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    Jamestown Diary of William Wilkinson‚ Surgeon December 5‚ 1606 I am a surgeon. I give medicine to people who are sick. I use needles‚ medicine‚ scissors‚ and lots more stuff. I might take bullets out of people. I don’t really work with others except my assistant. My assistant brings people into my house. He helps me get the tools. My assistant’s name is Ben. I have a big family. I have a wife named Anne. She likes to cook bread. I have four children. Their names are James‚ Emily‚ Sarah‚ and Kathryn

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    The time from 1609-1610 is called the starving time in Jamestown. In Jamestown‚ during this time period‚ there was little food‚ meager leadership‚ and the native people were killing as many of the settlers that they could get their hands on. King James I was aware of all the problems that the settlement was facing and so he sent nine ships to the settlement. The nine ships were carrying food and more settlers‚ due to the amount of settlers that were there dying. But due to bad weather‚ many of the

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    tobacco cash crop‚ indentured servants‚ and slaves. While many historians delude the success of Virginia’s first colony‚ Jamestown‚ to John Smith‚ the real savior was John Rolfe’s discovery of tobacco. At the beginning of the 17th century‚ Jamestown‚ Virginia was a suffering colony‚ threatened to become extinct. Disease and hunger took the lives of numerous people and Jamestown looked like it would be just another colony failure. In George Percy’s A Discourse on the Plantation of Virginia‚ he describes

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    i highly encourage you to experience it for yourself. The trip over was not great‚ but it was nothing to complain about. We landed here in Cape Henry in April safely. Shortly after landing‚ we started a new settlement elsewhere which we named Jamestown. This is the first european settlement in the new world‚ and it is and will be successful. When we first arrived our primary goal was to build houses and fences. We did hasty work on the houses‚ which proved to be a downfall when winter came.

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    JAMESTOWN WAS A FIASCO I feel with reading both sides of the argument I still have to agree with Morgan and saying that Jamestown was a true Lupe fiasco. The mistakes made by the early settlers at Jamestown‚ which threatened their survival. In fact the first day that the Europeans came over and the Indians of the Cape Henry region‚ when they found a party of twenty or thirty strangers walking around on their territory‚ drove them back to the ships they

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    Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had many similarities and differences. Many of these differences were due to their physical location and climatic conditions. The success of both colonies can be contributed to strong leadership and the characteristics of the personalities of the settlers that inhabited each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American

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    Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement to be established in what is now the United States. The majority of the settlers of Jamestown died from various reasons. Conflict was very much present with the Native Americans living in the area. Food was in short supply. Disease ravaged the settlement multiple times and finally the environment took a toll on the settlers of Jamestown. Native American conflict caused the deaths of over a hundred Jamestown settlers over the course of three years

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    home. I settled to an early colony named Jamestown. The first settlement of Jamestown occurred in May 14‚ 1607. A couple years later I arrived to Jamestown. Life in Jamestown can be very challenging‚ but nothing compared to how it was before. The first settlement of Jamestown was a failure. The first journey to Virginia was through 3 ships: The Susan Constant‚ the Godspeed and the Discovery. In the first settlement around 100 members traveled to Jamestown looking for silver and gold. Instead of

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