The Life of New England and Southern Colonies The New England and Southern Colonies were both settled by the English. By 1700, the regions had evolved into two very distinct societies. The motivations of the two colonies were very different, and as a result the two colonies diverged in their goals. The Southern colonists were aiming for economic prosperity, while New England colonists were focused on religious freedom. The one ... of Worship. They wanted to establish the colony for religious motives, because their whole society was reflected by their religion. They were based on theocracy, wh...

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... the south tip of Africa to the East to get spices needed to preserve thier meats. The merchants could avoid expensive taxes from the rullers of every country between Eygpt and Europe by traveling in this fashion. Religion also played an important role. The Spanish were pushing hard to convert many of the Natives in America to thier Catholic ... religion, while many settlers in the Northern region of America were moving there for religious freedom. The best example of this was the Pilgrims of Plymoth Colony who were being persecuted ... Carribean that became the foundations of the Brit...

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... to America. When the German immigrants settled the majority of them belonged to the Christan religion. In all, Germans were the largest immigrant group to include sizeable numbers of all three major Western religions (Catholic, Protestant and Jew). In the beginning over 100,000 Germans migrated to the English colonies in North America. Most of them settled in Pennsylvania. While others settled in New ... York, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Despite the devotion Germans had to their homeland, German settlers adapted rapidly to the ... ...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leone. Who were these people? ... What were their cultural beliefs? How did they live and what did it mean to be snatched from their homeland? FAMILY: Hostile ... where "barbarians" who had taken them from their homeland, taking them away from their family, friends, a way of life, and cultural tradition...

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... during the next one hundred years has been estimated at approximately 8-10,000 per year. Some slaves were re-exported to other English colonies, but most stayed in Jamaica and were exchanged for the primary products of Jamaica, namely sugar, rum, and molasses. The economy of Jamaica developed rapidly with the introduction of slaves. The development of the "triangle" trade made Jamaica an important ... of twelve persons was appointed by Governor D"Oyley from a small pool of planters, military officers and wealthy colonists. The council was empowered to make laws, constitute civil courts,...

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... change that occurred in the colonies was the extension of British ideals far beyond the practice in England itself. Changes in religion, economics, politics, and social structure illustrated this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. By 1763, although some colonies still maintained established churches, other colonies had accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. In similar economic revolution, the colonies outgrew their mercantile relationship ... with the mother country and developed an expanding capitalist system of their ...

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Betty Wood introduces her book, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies, by raising two conceptually-related questions: 1) What made English colonists believe they had the right to enslave West Africans and; 2) What prompted them to do so? She points out that even though there are many explanations that conflict with each other, historians agree that Englishmen set out to ... West Africans was based on the religious beliefs of the English. She says that the English could not justify the color of the West African's skin or hair, because they believed Adam ...

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... uphold, or at least not interfere with, the prosperity and autonomy they enjoyed. Colonies of colonial America had different views when it came to religion, but they all had one thing in common. All of the colonies could to some extent, decide themselves what religions could be established in the colony. While some colonies only allowed religious freedom to a select group due to ... The policy of salutary neglect allowed Rhode Island to develop to become the most religiously tolerant of all the colonies. A second example is the colony of Pennsylvania, which was founded by an English man n...

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... , European traders shipped about ten million Africans to the New World. Most went to the West Indies or Latin American colonies. About five percent went to the colonies in America. Ships carrying goods such as rum and fish left New England for the west coast of Africa. There they were traded for Africans. Then the ships continued on the "middle passage" to the ... from the molasses. The Africans remaining on board were sold to the colonies. Life was a series of terrible experiences for the African slave from the trip to America onward. Oloudah Equiano, who was renamed Gustavus Vassa, was...

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... Latin American countries gained their independence in the nineteenth century. The Iberian countries dominated the colonization of Latin America and the Caribbean with small colonies established by the French, English and Dutch. Regardless of the nationality of the colonizers, almost all of the colonies shared basic characteristics, which have persevered over time in some way or another. It is possible to organize the ... required tremendous labor input to match the demand of continental Europe. Goods such as sugar, cotton, coffee, indigo, tobacco, silver and copper were produced and ex...

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... way through Central America. The Spanish explored the New World in search of gold, glory, and god, they sent many different types of people to the new world, and they had an overall negative affect on the Indians. Spaniards were constantly in America spreading religion or seeking gold and glory. Spanish priests went into the New World on a missionary goal. In these missions the ... priests evangelized to the Natives. Here the Natives would learn of the catholic religion, the Spanish laws and lifestyles. The missionaries tried to tame the natives so that they could live in a village unde...

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... by the relationships established during the colonial period. On the one hand, the political and cultural links between the UK and former colonies encouraged migration to Britain. On the other hand, Britain's attempts to rebuild its shattered economy and the demand for a cheap labour supply in the 1940's and 1950's drew many more workers from the former British Empire. The British Nationality Act ... most of the migrants were "coloured" people. The mass migrations of the 1950's and 1960's produced close networks of related migrants from particular regionsn of origin. New Commonwealth immig...

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