the coast of North America. ii. When settlement ultimately failed‚ colonists stayed there‚ governing themselves‚ giving birth to the idea of American democracy. Jamestown: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607. Named after King James I of England. iii. Sparked a series of cultural encounters with Natives of land‚ also shaped culture of future Americans. House of Burgesses: the lower house of representatives in colonial Virginia. iv. Showed that young America was taking a step
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Due to the hardships Virginia faced in the early seventeenth century‚ the colonists made efforts to improve Virginia’s drawbacks‚ ultimately changing the colonies socially and economically. These changes occurred at the beginning of disease-ridden‚ famined‚ and lowly populated Jamestown‚ as well as larger plantations of tobacco that were worked on by indentured servants and African slaves. These harsh conditions elicited the colonists to find ways of advancing Virginia‚ in ways that separated them
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Spanish Colonial Period Chapter Review Arch 117 Abegail Imee R. Enriquez 2012-68836 Spanish Colonial Period How does Spanish Colonial architecture reflect Filipino identity? Discuss the various building types and their relationship to pre-colonial architecture in your arguments. Spanish colonial architecture reflects Filipino identity mostly through the Religious Architecture. As what the world knows‚ Philippines is the only Catholic country in Southeast Asia; thus‚ most of our structures all
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The Enlightenment and Colonial Protest The Enlightenment refers to the seventeenth and eighteenth century in which a historical intellectual movement advocating reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of ethics‚ government‚ and logic swept through Europe and the Americas. The intellectual leaders regarded themselves as a courageous elite who would lead the world into progress from a long period of doubtful tradition‚ irrationality‚ superstition‚ and tyranny. The movement helped
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1. How did the Indian societies of South and North America differ from European societies at the time the two came into contact? In what ways did Indians retain a “world view” different from that of the Europeans? An obvious distinction between the two civilizations is the Indians lacked weapons‚ tools‚ or sciences comparable to that of the Europeans. The Native Americans also existed in small‚ loose groups that lacked unity‚ while the Europeans were able to establish cities and alliances; another
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Colonial America was a very troubling and dangerous place‚ but these two chief countries were sought in on their ways. Those core values helped catapult them into the new world in search of freedom‚ food‚ and a source of income. England and France were two dominant countries‚ nonetheless they had their differences socially‚ economically‚ and politically which propelled them towards the new world. When the two nations began permanently settling in the new world the French colonies treated the native
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the differences in religion‚ economics‚ and social structures between the Southern and Northern Colonies. Slavery‚ manufacturing‚ education‚ and agriculture influenced the everyday way of life for the colonists. This has had everlasting effects on America till this day. Agriculture and environment were factors in the way each culture grew. The fertile land of the south along with a warmer climate made it possible for the colonists to grow cash crops such as tobacco‚ rice and indigo. However
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Women in Colonial Mexico “Subordinate Women” In “Women in Colonial Mexico” Julia Tuñón Pablos analyzes the life of women in colonial Mexico after the Spanish conquest. She specifically analyzes how the Spanish conquest impacted the Spaniard‚ African and Indigenous Mexican women and their loss of power and authority. Pablos compares the Spanish and Indigenous society and proposes the question: “which tradition was more patriarchal? In other words: did women win or lose power and authority with
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The Spanish born people were called Peninsulares‚ they held the most powerful positions in the government and church‚ dominated the colonial government of New Spain (L. Muñoz‚ Daniel). The upper class never desired to involve the native indians and mestizos in the government or in local control moves (L. Muñoz‚ Daniel) . Viceroy Jose de Iturrigaray tried to form a junta with the Creole because he thought that would make him king of an independent Mexico. The Peninsulares found out about this in
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What is impact of colonial land tenure system on the land use in Buganda? The territory today called Buganda‚ before colonialism had a hybrid of centralized state system where land was serving communal interests. When Uganda became a British protectorate at the end of the nineteenths century‚ one of the major and popularly known intervention by the British was the introduction in 1900 a formalized individual private property ownership in Buganda. In Uganda‚ Land as a factor of production serves
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