... largely by people of English origin became distinct colonial regions by the early 1700's. Especially noteworthy and significant to the reason and process by which the Chesapeake region and New England colonies became distinctly different were the ratios of men to women and the general social structures of the respective colonies. It is evident that the greatest visual distinction between the ... six times as many men than women in the Chesapeake region. Also, the hierarchy and importance of each individual is a key difference between the two colonial regions. Within the New England colo...

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... contrasting ideals, individual beliefs based on culture, and had distinctive technological resources available to each of them that will ultimately affect the way each group utilize the ecosystems of New England. In the novel "Changes in the Land", written by William Cronon, a collection of essays would be organized into a compilation of explanations and subjective reasoning to assist in a better ... of land and ownership between the Native Americans and English colonists. The two groups' contrasting ideals would become extremely evident and explanatory of how and why the ecosystems of N...

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... of King William III's governor of New York. He thereupon implemented a program based on direct popular representation that had, as contemporaries noted, wide impact from the Chesapeake to New England. The following year he called for and hosted English America's first intercolonial congress and organized the first intercolonial military action independent of British authority. Leisler's administration of New York ... split the province into two distinct camps that were closely aligned with the Regent and Orangist factions in the United Provinces and the Whig and Tory factions in England,...

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Considered as revitalization, an "awakening" of religious devotion, thus called the "Great Awakening", the fear of the flames of hell swept through the American colonies, mainly in New England, between 1730-1745. Dominating Calvinist orthodoxy, which was the main religion that branched off into other sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" ... ...

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