... , but servants and eventually the slaves were considered a part of the plantation family, whose care was entrusted to the owner, which is the head of the household. During the seventeenth century, the attractions of cheap land encouraged children to move away from the homesite to try their fortunes elsewhere. As a result, the families were usually reduced in size. This development ... . If a town lacked a workman with skills the conventional practice was to advertise for such a person. They offered either a house or land. Scattered settlements in the Chesapeake colonies during the sevent...

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... The inference was then made that blacks called servants must have had approximately the same status as white indentured servants. Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as ... of a demographic revolution, a majority of slaves had now been born in the New World and they were capable of increasing the slave population by natural reproduction. During the seventeenth century,...

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... puritan to be able to read the Bible. Therefore they educated their children more than in any of the thirteen colonies. According to the article, "No other colony in the seventeenth century imposed such a high educational standard upon its simple farming people as the puritans did." This quote shows just how important education was to puritans. Carl N. Degler states that schooling is ... was also interested in education, had private schools. These schools were all funded by donations, or "ecclesiastical endowment." In-fact, Virginia didn't have a public school until the end of the seven...

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... in stopping piracy, crimes, and keeping social order better than the other colonies because of their strict regulations.13 Later in the eighteenth century however, the economic side, such as destruction of property and theft, become more prevalent than the moral side. Though the reports of ... has always been a fascinating subject. Captain Kidd was a famous pirate known for his violent crimes in the Atlantic World during the late seventeenth century. The British government and the colonies sentenced him to death by hanging. The people in the colonies all were enticed to hear the details...

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... for each. The numerous wives were often known to live together in the same dwellings and be happy. Although few histories of the European settlements in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have acknowledged it, women played a key role in the development of the North American colonies. The first European outposts (St. Augustine, Jamestown, Quebec, Montreal, New Amsterdam) were ... . They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeen...

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... American society is. Some might suggest it is a land of opportunity and freedom of expression, as it was often considered, and hoped for, by those who colonised it in the seventeenth century. However, particularly outside the United States, we can see a quite alternative interpretation to this nave and somewhat dated description. The overwhelming social and economical hierarchy displays a massively contradictory ... this title early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise' is still used today. This utterance is distinguishable amongst the hundreds of other eight...

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... abundant natural resources and lucrative crops such as furs, deerskins, timber, fish, tobacco, indigo, rice, sugar, etc. and they traded them with other countries. By the end of the 17th century, the colonies had become part of the intricate North Atlantic commercial connection, and were trading with both Britain and the West Indies. They also traded illegally with Spain, France, Portugal ... the churches and they were required to attend church services. Contrary to the strict Puritan society of Massachusetts, Virginia was much more laid-back in regards to religion. In the seventeenth c...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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Development of colonial government During the 1580's and 1590's, the English granted various proprietors and chartered companies the authority to establish colonies in America. In the following century the British created 12 colonies stretching up and down the eastern coast of America, South Carolina; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Connecticut; New Hampshire ... ; Rhode Island; Plymouth; New Netherlands and Massachusetts Bay. Georgia became one of the original 13 colonies during the 18th century. Each colony was a private venture, overseen by the English. Therefore...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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... settled and originally colonized by mainly English settlers, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake region were distinctly different by the beginning of the eighteenth century. A series of events leading up to the beginning of the seventeenth century can account for the vast differences between these two colonial regions. The Chesapeake region, which was situated in the modern day Virginia area, had drastically ... ...

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... places. All integrated today to belong to the United States. This is an altogether new thing in history. How did such a strange thing happen? The Backdrop Zooming in around the seventeenth century in the chronology of the global history we see the whole of Europe was engaged in an unplanned, incoherent ebullition of enterprise due to temporary and almost accidental advantages over ... well as the merciless workload imposed upon the natives dramatically diminished the Indian population. There were approximately 20 million Indians inhabiting this territory before the Conquest, and after j...

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... own crops from the Indians and eventually John Rolfe discovered tobacco, which soon became their main crop. Virginia used indentured servants to grow their tobacco. Near the end of the seventeenth century Virginians turned to African slaves for labor. There were three hundred blacks in the colony in 1650; blacks were 14% of the population by the end of the ... century. Colonists from Carolina also came to America for economic purposes. Carolina was founded by eight nobles in 1670, originally this colony's purpose was to trade with the sugar cane islands ... ...

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During the Reformation of the seventeenth century, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), led by George Fox, created their own denomination based on the belief that God is present as an, "Inner Light," in each ... ...

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By the seventeenth century, the Southern Colonies (Georgia, Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia), New England (Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake region (Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey) had ... ...

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... Puritans called Pilgrims. They came over in 1620 and landed at Plymouth. Their ship was called The Mayflower. They settled in what is now Massachusetts.The Puritans came in the seventeenth century and wanted to gain religous freedom for themselves. They settled in New England because they wanted to gain religous freedom, but the religous freedom they sought for was not given ... ...

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... important amendments in the Constitution, but also one that too many Americans exaggerate and take for granted today. England greatly impacted the development of this amendment. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England speech was so strict Parliament couldn't even debate the issues that they were to vote on. When they asked Queen Elizabeth to allow debate she said "Privilege ... to say yes or no in legislative issues. Over two hundred years later in England's thirteen colonies the Intolerable Acts, which restricted speech just as much as in the sixteenth century, were impos...

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... reasons for settlement, their religion, and their economic skills were are also factors. The majority of people who settled in the New England colonies were Puritans who came in the seventeenth century to what is now Massachusetts in order to gain religious freedom. United States abolitionist Wendell Phillips said, "What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action." The Puritans ... ...

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... 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 the growth of commerce began. Settlers would learn of ways to combine agriculture with commerce to better ... ...

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... Puritans called Pilgrims. They came over in 1620 and landed at Plymouth. Their ship was called The Mayflower. They settled in what is now Massachusetts.The Puritans came in the seventeenth century and wanted to gain religous freedom for themselves. They settled in New England because they wanted to gain religous freedom, but the religous freedom they sought for was not given ... ...

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... inevitable. There were forces at work for many years that eventually dissolved the political bond between the two lands. The English institutions, brought over to the colonies early in the seventeenth century had been shaped by the social, political, and economic conditions unique to America. Ultimately, the two societies grew apart - so far apart that the colonies began to seek independence. There ... ...

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... were not economically sound envied the small scale entrepreneurs and blamed them of practicing witchcraft which eventually led to the Salem witch trials. Demons, familiars, witchcraft, and magic all shaped seventeenth century New England. For most Salem Villagers, Satan was a living supernatural being who might appear to people, bargain with them and even enter into agreements. People who submitted to such devilish ... ...

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