... was too conservative and a revision produced the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts. These laws combined Biblical law, English common law, and the laws passed by the legislature of the colony. For the first fifty years of its history, Massachusetts acted as though it were an independent sovereign state. It was not until after the English Restoration in 1660 and the adoption ... of forceful mercantilist colonial policy in England that Massachusetts would be disciplined for her actions and brought to a sense of its dependency upon the Crown. In 1691 Massachusetts Bay Colony would be issu...

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... the Massachusetts Bay in New England. When the Massachusetts Bay Company obtained its charter, the King and his advisers did not prescribe a meeting place for the Company. The intelligent men that began the charter realized that by moving the meeting place of the company to the colony itself, the ... In England, because of the current King, land was hard to come by and in America men could purchase hundreds of acres for what they would pay for one or two acres in England. Many that were not puritans wanted to make the trip because they felt they would prosper in this new land. ... Bein...

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... before the advent of the castle. The Iron Age peoples of Ancient Britain fortified hilltops with massive earthworks, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset, for tribal defense. The Romans dotted the countryside with innumerable military encampments and built the impressive chain of fortresses, known as the Saxon Shore forts ... behind earthen banks and timber palisades to create fortified towns, burghs, from which is derived the modern word "borough." Yet, all these structures were for, essentially, communal purposes. What distinguishes the castle from these and other, later fortifications is ...

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... With the low amount of laborers, slavery was the answer to the southern people's problems. Tobacco profits dramatically increased the demand for labor. Once the Indians refused to take part in the plan of the Chesapeake settlers making them [Indians] slaves, a system of indentured labor was ... created. Fifty acres a head to any one who paid a person's passage to the colony. This started a rise in need for slaves, and there go, slaves were imported from Africa. At the same time, the Puritans felt strongly ... that nobody should be enslaved. The Puritans worked hard at trying to end slave...

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... . Between 1580 and 1650, many English men and women chose to migrate to the New World. Some elected to relocate because of competition for food and land, because of dreams of wealth, or to attempt to escape poverty. There were other reasons that migrants left England, and ... one of the most prevalent ones was that settlers yearning for religious freedom believed it would come in America. People of English origin settled both New England and the Chesapeake region, yet the two regions ... large plantations were started, with tobacco being the item most frequently grown on these plantatio...

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... when it came to the cultivation of crops and animal husbandry. Animal husbandry is the management and care of farm animals by humans for profit, in which genetic qualities and behavior considered to be advantageous to humans. The types of government between the colonies and America ... land was distributed in townships. This was a procedure imitated by the other colonies of New England. Outside of the village lands were allotted for farming and grazing. In the Chesapeake colonies land was granted to individuals instead of groups. "A man interested in obtaining land requested a ... fin...

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... taken captives in the first Big War to help in a war whose cause they never knew. And when they came back? Their land was taken away for a settlement of the white soldiers." Here it is seen that Africans dislike the British ruling there, and taking over their lands. Many black people lost their ... people have their land in the country of black people. White people have land in their own country. England is for white people only. And they left their country to come and rob us acres of what we have" . Here we see that the black people wanted their land back because it was not fair ... pla...

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... their proper owners. Then Charles paid and disbanded most of the army, leaving only three forces to defend the country. He was constantly asking Parliament for money to fund his "little changes". In 1662, he married the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, to ensure good relations between England and Portugal. ... same year, the Great Plague swept through London. By June, people who showed plague-like symptoms were locked in their houses with their families for forty days after they died or were cured. Houses were even guarded to prevent the infected from escaping. Guards were al...

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... colonies as a means of making the country wealthier and more powerful. The British government used and manipulated every law, declaration and legal act meant for the colonies. They did this to favor the wealthy classes of Britain, namely the royals, nobles, gentry, and merchants and to increase the ... 's first way of making a profit by using its own people as indentured servants for the harvesting of this crop. Indentured servants usually worked for about seven years and after their time was up, they were promised fifty acres of their own land. Most, however, never received the land tha...

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... - The conquistadors were low-ranking nobles known as hidalgos. 4. Encomienda- The encomienda system was a way to reward the men that had defeated the Aztec. 5. Hacienda- The haciendas covered thousands of acres. 6. Vaquero- The vaqueros herded the cattle. 7. Northwest Passage- King Francis I sent Giovanni da Verrazano to map North America's coastline and to find the Northwest Passage. 8. Coureurs De Bois- ... Pizarro- Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish army captain. John Cabot- John Cabot was an Italian navigator that hoped to find a western route to Asia. John Cabot also explored North Ame...

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... Revolution would lead to rapid urbanization. There were many revolutions that took place within the Industrial Revolution. "A revolution in agriculture had paved the way for the Industrial Revolution." (491) Farmers were in dire need to increase production, which in turn would increase trade. "The Agricultural Revolution began in ... Watt was recognized as developing the first practical steam engine that burned coal. (Perry 493) "While repairing a model of a Newcomen-type engine for Glasgow University, Watt realized that a large quantity of heat was being wasted by successfully heating t...

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... labor to farm rice, indigo, tobacco, and needed people to work the robust plantations. As a result of the increase in the demand for more manpower several different methods were used to acquire individuals to the New Word. The head right system, indentured servitude, and eventually slavery were ... got the land they were promised and this resulted in large amounts of homeless folks that ended up wondering aimlessly about the countryside looking for work. This ended up the main cause of Bacons Rebellion which indentured servants rose up against their former masters and demanded what they ....

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... of the first successful North American settlement founded by ordinary Europeans; thus, there was no charter by the English government. The English government was urged on by the desire for wealth, while ordinary Europeans settled because of religious concerns. Plymouth Colony was established by Pilgrims in what is now modern-day Massachusetts. The Pilgrims were a group of English ... inferiors. Puritan leaders or preachers would be imprisoned or even executed. Those who held high positions in society found themselves gradually getting disapproval. For example, John Winthrop, a man who d...

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... with England was plentiful in these colonies as well. The Southern Colonies were almost entirely agricultural. The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland and buildings in which lived the people who owned the land and the people who worked the land. (A large part of the workforce was African slaves, who first ... arrived in 1619.) Southern plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo, which they sold to buyers in England and elsewhere in America. More than simply for religious freedom, economics played a large role in the settleme...

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... an undifferentiated, homogeneous group and should be treated accordingly. Eleven million acres of land were confiscated and given to adventurers (those who had paid for Cromwell's campaigns) and soldiers. The Irish landlord had land reserved for them in only the barren county of Connaught which led to the ... his ministers). It was also fuelled by the increasing spirit of independence amongst the Protestant Ascendancy who looked towards the colonists in America for their inspiration. When these colonists rebelled in the 1770s the "Protestant nation" of Ireland took advantage of the Gov...

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