... . - Unemployment- There were not enough jobs in England and debtor prisoner were becoming overcrowded. - Businessman looking for investments, raw materials, and new markets. - Mercantilism- an economic system where a nations power is measured by its wealth in gold and silver. In order to make mercantilism work ... her beliefs. She and 6 of her children joined Roger Williams and his followers to Providence. In 1634, they were granted a charter to begin a new colony, called Rhode Island. V. Connecticut - Connecticut was also started by Puritans who were searching for superior farmland. - Th...

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... the rivalry with Catholic Spain intensifies. 2. Ireland fueled the rivalry. Catholic Irish sought Spanish aid in overthrowing Elizabeth. Elizabeth crushed them. Catholic Irish lands were confiscated and new Protestant landlords were given these lands. Bitter feelings stayed with the Irish and English. B. Elizabeth Energizes England 1. Queen Elizabeth encouraged English buccaneers to raid the Spanish ... England Plants the Jamestown Seedling 1. 1606- a joint-stock company, the Virginia Company of London received a charter from king James I of England to start a settlement in the New World...

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... would naturally include the Quebec area since 1763, whilst notable political demonstrations were virtually unheard-of in Quebec.ix Although with minor conflicts, the Francophone residents adapted to their new governor quickly. The temporary power vacuum in Quebec after the Treaty of Paris had caused some instability in the society, but the British soon implemented a representative government in ... conflicts within the Thirteen Colonies were the decisive motive of the American Revolutionary War. Steadily growing over the entire colonial era, the prosperous economy and population of the...

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... acts of mutiny, destruction, and robbery.4 Pirates were a cause of chaos in Maritime History during the beginning of America, especially in the New England colonies, and religious authority used social and moral reasons to stop them. Reports of piracy began showing up and down the Colonial American ... enforced by showing the negative side of crime with the public punishment of piracy.40 Religious practice was used in the colonies, especially the New England colonies, by secular authority rather than just a religious institution. Many ministers would try and use crimes and punishment t...

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... -being of the family and the farm. That is what separated them from the families of the Middle region and the South. The communities of New England often kept a close watch on the families that lived within them, which supported the "English system where governance, socialization, and social welfare ... close watch on the families, especially in the case in which a family was having trouble, or could not pay its bills. The communities of the New England colonies were more industrial when compared to other regions of colonial America. Towns were more close knit, and normally contained diff...

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... . Tituba, like Good, was very poor. She worked as a servant in the Parris home and was a Caribbean - Indian born in Barbados in the West Indies. Reverend Parris brought Tituba to New England when he was still a merchant, and after this she married John Indian who also worked as slave for Reverend Parris. Tituba was the person asked to aid with the ... being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions presented to her. She acted naive and said she did not even know if there were any witches in New England She also labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitu...

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