... household. The clothes were dyed with different kinds of things such as roots, berries, and so on. One famous person born in the middle colonies was Benjamin Franklin who gave the middle colonies a fire department and a public library. The southern colonies were Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. They were supported by slave labor and farming, for the most part. The ... government of the colonies were infested by planters and farmers in the late seventeenth century. The primary seaport for the southern colonies was Charleston, South Carolina, a place where t...

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... believes and ethical systems, from the religious fervor animating early New England settlers to the competitive and commercial impulses of many colonists on the southern mainland, compounded the contrasts found between Northern and Southern colonies. The most significant and disturbing social variations was the adoption of distinctive labor systems, especially the use of large-scale African slavery used by ... most Southern colonists. This distinctive labor system showed that Northern and Southern colonists looked at race in two distinctive ways. When the English colonists first settled ...

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... itself, in what became northwest Canada, from the 1670's and on. Many territories became British through the extension of companies" activities. For example, Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Labuan, became British colonies with the help of the Straits Settlement and the East India Company. The first permanent British settlement on the African continent was established on James Island, in the Gambia River ... were established with the help of the companies and magnates, and not by the efforts of the English crown. The crown exercised some rights of appointment and supervision, but the col...

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... with each other all the time and because of this the British was able to gain control of the Thirteen Colonies along the east coast. "By 1775, about 500 000 Blacks were enslaved in the Thirteen Colonies, making up approximately 20 percent of the total population." (Carter, pg.21) In that same year, the ... Thirteen Colonies rebelled against the British rule. To weaken the rebel forces the British commander in chief offered freedom to all Blacks who could escape ... , particularly Nova Scotia. Among black loyalist communities, the largest was called Birch town, which had a population of ...

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... . In 1637, America built its first slave ship, the DESIRE, this was the first of many American ships to be used in the importation of slaves, by then, the English colonies, then later, the United States of America. The American flag was used on ships that transported slaves, even after the first anti-slavery law was passed in Virginia in 1778 ... and Stripes, due to the threat of war from then Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams. This practice continued until one year prior to the end of the War for Southern Independence (Kennedy, Kennedy 62-76). Once the war was over, the real problem...

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... with no place to go to the bathroom, little water to drink, and hardly anything to eat. As the population constantly increased in the colonies during the 1600's, so did the demand for slavery especially in the southern colonies where the big plantations were. These plantations were very lucrative since the owners had free manual labor and they could keep all the profit ... ...

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... develop Australia. For it's first post World War II migration program, Australia turned to it's 'mother nation' Britain and came out with one of the largest migration programs in the Southern Hemisphere ever. It was called the United Kingdom - Australia Free and Assisted Passage Agreements and this program proved to be successful as the 1947 population of 7 and a half million rose ... of people who came to Australia between July 1947 and June 1970 - the British Isles having many more immigrants than other countries. The White Australia Policy When the various Australian colonies formed ...

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