...liberty, and/or ordeal, relied heavily upon their geographical location. Depending on whether an individual lived in New England, the Middle colonies, or in the Southern colonies, the prevalence of these experiences would differ thanks to the resources and types of people each colony possessed. After religious intolerance in England began to advance, many groups of people traveled to the New England colonies in hopes of achieving the liberty to practice religion freely and to build a society without the corruption of English religious ideas. In the Puritan Compacts, each covenant had a...
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...documents what was the nature and characters of these colonies? According to what is presented in the documents how might the colonies be distinguished from one another. (Compare/contrast) The beginnings of the American colonies started in the 17th century with settlers from different European countries such as Spain, France, England, Holland and Sweden. The colony Jamestown, was the first to establish in the Eastern Coast in the year 1607, in what is today known as Virginia and a little more than a decade later in the year 1620 the pilgrims settled at Plymouth in what is today known as Massachusetts. England gained control of the 13 colonies after winning the war against France. These 13 colonies were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The first settlers of the American colonies came for different motives, all looking to fulfill different aspects of their lives, some looking for freedom of creed, others to improve their financial situation and some others for adventure. Historians distinguished the different colonies defined by their own unique characteristics based on where the settlers came from, who found them and what they did for living. The 13 colonies were grouped in three different categories; the New England colonies, the Middle and the Southern Colonies. The New England Colonies were mostly characterized because their settlers or...
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...The Effects of Geography on Colonial America When first setting foot on the U.S Eastern seaboard, explorer George Percy documented that, “Wee (sic) could find… faire meddowes and goodly tall Trees… Fresh-waters… I was almost ravished at the first sight” (Percy “A Discourse of… Virginia by the English”). Percy and one hundred four other settlers would go on to establish Jamestown, the first successful British colony in the “New World”. Chosen for its geographical military advantages, lush vegetation, and seemingly stable, warm climate (Grymes “Jamestown - Why there?”), the location of Jamestown created a viable settlement, economy, and subsequent culture. Throughout the 1600’s, the colonies would expand tenfold, and the consequences of their varying topographical features would divide the land into three territories: New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the Southern colonies. The varied...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix A Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named. | |Native Americans |Northern Colonists |Mid-Atlantic Colonists |Southern Colonists |West Africans | |Political Structure|Politics advanced in large |Participated in discussions, took |The Middle Colonies were generally|The southern colonies had a |Politics advanced in large | | |kingdoms that oversaw and |votes on projects and taxes. Laws |run by Royal or Proprietary |governor and a council appointed |kingdoms that oversaw and | | |protected their citizens and that |were based on common law to do |Governors and elected Colonial |by the crown, and an assembly |protected their citizens and that | | |allowed for expansive lines of |God’s duty in the land he had |Assemblies. Many Middle Colony |or house of representatives that |allowed for expansive lines of | | |trade. |given them |constitutions guaranteed freedom |was elected by the people. The |trade. | | | | |of religion and forbade taxation |governor...
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...Comparing Colonization After the establishment of the United States, explorers continued the expansion of the nation by organizing new settlements to the West. Settling a new town is an incredibly hard task. I have examined three articles by historians who discuss the experiences of two very different settlements and the task they undertook to settle new colonies in different locations for very different reasons. The Mormon settlement in Utah had a different reason for colonization than the settlement at Jamestown as shown through their financial pursuits, leadership examples, basic resources and differences in geography. One of the historians, Karen Kupperman, writes about the settlement of Jamestown. She writes that “even the most privileged [suffered] from food shortage, disease, absence of family and friends, opposition from inhabitants of the land, and sheer exhaustion” (pg. 19). Not every place is similar with the same resources. Each comes with unique characteristics and conditions. She starts off by explaining how organizing settlements in the Northern hemisphere was very different than in the Southern hemisphere. The only model the British had to follow for colonizing was South America. In the North there was no gold or silver to mine for profit nor a large number of natives to enslave. Because of these lacking traits it was difficult to find people who would finance the trip to colonize Jamestown. This brings up the most important factor when looking...
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...Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics of three groups of peoples: Native Americans, colonists, and West Africans. Native Americans Northern colonists Mid-Atlantic colonists Southern colonists West Africans Economic structure Exchanged jewelry, food, trading routes. Built up a farm and traded far. Where mostly traders and agriculturists. Specialized in far trading. Revenue from livestock, tobacco, sugar, and corn provided bulk of the income. Gold from Ghana was particularly famous. Political structure Tribal men formed united that stood in all sorts of situations. Women were allowed to enjoy limited freedom I some cultures. Two separate houses linked under a Royal contract. Aboard of directors made up one group. While the other was larger house consisting of deputies elected on popularly basis. Villages The early southern colonies were almost entirely agriculture instead of trade like the northern colonies. They were ruled by a Governor sent from England who followed rules from the planter class (the people who owned the land). Their political structure was a strong central government, much like they were used to from their lives in England West African politics shared common religious beliefs and a common system of land ownership. They lived in decentralized societies where political power resided in associations of men and women. Social system Most tribes were based on clan system, which is where tribes was divided into a number of large...
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...Also had a dense population, productive agriculture, and an aggressive bureaucratic state. Cahokia Cahokia emerged around 1000 as the foremost center of the new Mississippian culture. It declined rapidly after peaking in size which exceeded 10,000. Its decline was probably caused by an era of ruinous warfare. Eastern Woodland Indians 12 The mississippian-influenced peoples od the southeast interacted with other groups,many of them adopted maize agriculture but did not display Mississippian characteristics. Throughout the eastern woodlands , women tended crops, gathered plants, and oversaw affairs within the community, while men were responsible for activities beyond it, such as hunting, fishing, and warfare. Algonquian 12 The Algonquian people had no single style of political organization. Many were chiefdoms. With one individual claiming preeminent power in a community and some were paramount chiefdoms, in which numerous communities with their own local chiefs banded together under a single, more powerful ruler. Pueblo Cultures 16 Pueblo Cultures emerged around A.D. 600. By A.D. 1000 all Pueblo people had developed irrigation systems to manage scarce water, that enabled them to build sizable villages and towns of adobe and rock that...
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...because they are inevitably causing the youth to be rebellious and devaluing the appreciation for true volunteering. While volunteering may be a seemingly good thing, mandatory volunteering causes young adolescents to rebel against community service and volunteer work. According to the Cognitive Evaluation Theory study, people tend to resist and lose interest in what is being asked of them when they feel they are being controlled by an outside source because of the human nature of individualism(Pearce 1).This is already seen in other school situations, such as with homework. Many children will often refuse to do rudimentary or simple homework assignments. Throughout history, volunteering has evolved into a cultural connection; a common characteristic of humans on a local, national, and global level is the desire to help one another. Although this statement is not necessarily true for every individual, most people feel an urgency to assist friends, family members, coworkers, and/or strangers in need or in crisis. Why should we volunteer? Many people donate their time for varying reasons whether it’s fundraising for disaster relief or collecting, preparing, and serving food for a food bank (Moore). Maybe it’s the warm sensation in your heart after you play a game of chess with a bedridden cancer patient, or the contagious smiles shared between servers and recipients at a soup kitchen that attracts a person to volunteering; in any case,...
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...these colonies were founded upon influenced many of the colonies decisions, shaping colonists views by different social, political and economic events. Which led to the cultivation of the tobacco crop, the impact of Puritanism in the Colonial Americas and William Penn. Hundreds of settlers came to the Virginia colony seeking riches. Virginia colonists needed a source of revenue to help in the development of their colony. An Englishmen named John Rolfe booked a voyage to the New World. Rolfe was able to attain seeds of tobacco to bring with him to the colony at Jamestown, where he was planning to begin growing the crop in the English colony. It was with this experiment with tobacco that the first profitable export was developed. Rolfe introduced a new sweeter form of tobacco to the colonies, which is different from the Native American variety planted around Jamestown which he found to be bitter. Virginia’s success grew greatly as Rolfe began exporting more and more tobacco. Tobacco then became the New Worlds first commodity to be internationally traded on the global market. Way before coffee, sugar, or tea was trading on the world market. As the need for Tobacco, grew, so did the need for larger plantations, more land meant more labor. Africa, had an available, affordable labor source. More land meant a higher need for more laborers. Since indentured servants were expensive they decided to use slaves instead. The numbers of slaves continued to increase in the colonies...
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...AMH 2010 Homework 1 Mark your response for each item on the scantron and turn in only the scantron after being sure your name is on the form. The completed scantron is due by the date indicated by your instructor. Scantrons turned in late for any reason will be accepted but will be granted only 50% credit. 1. Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred approximately ______ ago. A. 2,000 years B. 5,000 years C. 9,000 years D. 11,000 years E. 18,000 years 2. The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the A. Maya. B. Aztecs. C. Incas. D. Pueblos. E.Olmec. 3. Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? A. St. Louis B. Memphis C. New Orleans D. Baton Rouge E. Detroit 4. Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans A. were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century. B. believed the Americas to consist of little more than several small islands. C. were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas. D. assumed that the Americas were largely unpopulated. E. had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo. 5. The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was A. Spain. B. Portugal. C. France. D. the Netherlands. E. England. 6. Christopher Columbus A. was trained as a sailor through his long service to Italy. B. was a man of little ambition. C...
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...Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics of three groups of peoples: Native Americans, colonists, and West Africans. | |Native Americans |Northern colonists |Mid-Atlantic colonists |Southern colonists |West Africans | |Political structure|Tribal leaders |May flower Compact, William |Overseen by proprietor, Lord |Virginia Company of London ( Royal|Climate and Geography ( big | | |Land was customarily common, |Bradford |Baltimore, autocratic ( House of |colony ruled by governor chosen by|influences | | |enslavement happened but not in | |Burgesses |the king |Trade routes | | |severity | | | |Kingdoms | | |Iroquois Confederacy: strategy to | | | | | | |protect from attack. | | | |...
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...in the early 1830’s. He observed the process of democracy in America, race relations, and the notion of equality, which was not bound by class as it was in aristocratic Europe. The chapter of Democracy in America that will be analyzed in this paper is titled, “Situation of the Black Race in the United States, Dangers Entailed for the Whites by Its Presence”. Slavery and American racial mores circa 1830 will be addressed as we continue. At this time, the presence of blacks is the greatest dangers threatening America. African slaves were imported to many colonies and nations other than those in North America, but none of these other slave-importing countries achieved anywhere near the economic growth seen in the United States. Bacon's Rebellion was an event that redefined the notion of race in the United States. Africans were in America long before Bacon’s Rebellion. The Great Migration was a period that the colonies were in desperate need of laborers. Blacks, along with whites, worked as indentured servants. There were black indentured servants that owned land, some even owning slaves themselves. After Bacon’s Rebellion, there was a gradual change in the status of African Americans from indentured servants to slaves. Post Bacon’s Rebellion, there was a great demand for labor and that demand was met through slavery. The number of white indentured servants diminished and the number of black slaves grew. It became the nearly universal presumption that whites were free...
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...English 1101 Food, Fun and Friends in France and the Southern United States of America Red wine, sweet tea, ice cold beer, chilled champagne, soft drinks, croissants, barbeque, fried chicken, bleu cheese, American processed cheese…all of these are symbols of good eating and drinking. Furthermore, these symbols are commonly enjoyed by two diverse and unique cultures; the French and the southerners of the United States of America. What underlying factors link these two diverse and unique cultures together? It is a common assumption that the French culture enjoys extremely rich and fattening foods, along with the fact that the French are obsessed with having a good time. It is just as well known that Southerners also enjoy the same rich and fattening foods, and they too know how to have a good time eating and drinking. Research has shown similarities and differences in immigration, social interaction and diet habits between the two cultures. The United States of America is known as a huge ‘melting pot’. America is made up of many nationalities and the southern region represents that same multi-cultural picture. “The population of the Southern United States is made up of many different people who came to the region in a variety of ways, each contributing to what is now called ‘Southern cooking’(Food In Every Country).” The various cultures included American Indians, Spanish explorers, West Africans, Creoles, and Cajuns. Each diverse group introduced foods, spices...
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...In the Past or the Present, Florida was never Southern The American South is a geographical entity famous for its unique dialect, a very different way of life, and of course, its fried chicken with black-eyed peas and cornbread. This is the homeland of an array of diverse Americans who can proudly consider themselves “southerners.” The region's fundamental definition lies in its pride of shared history and its peculiar combination of highly traditional cultural traits, a somewhat curious, often elusive blend created by various ethnic groups who have lived together for more than three hundred years. However one such state, large and populous as it is, does not meet this definition fully on. That is the proud state of Florida. Even as the southernmost state in the region, Florida lacks the same uniqueness of its neighbors, and its overall characteristics are more similar to that of eastern states and southern California. Florida originates from a different historical background and its culture greatly differentiates the state from the true Mason-Dixon states. Historically, Florida had usually been the odd one out. To begin, the state’s roots derived from a colony once controlled by the nation of Spain. Unlike the Carolinas under British authority and Louisiana under French rule, Florida was the only state in the south ruled by Spain until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. As a Spanish territory, Florida maintained an economic and social connection with other Spanish possessions...
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...Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) First Paragraph Although Northern and Southern settlers were bound by a common mother nation, they were drastically different in economy, politics, morals, and motives. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther created doctrines for Protestantism and changed the religious world as we know it He ignited a fire of religious reform (the “Protestant Reformation”) that licked its way across Europe for more than a century, dividing peoples, toppling sovereigns, and kindling the spiritual fervor of millions of men and women Some of whom migrated to America John Calvin, inspired by Luther, created Calvinism and influenced many future American settlers Predestination, the “elect,” and the...
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