... and where among the first boat builders to use the Keel. The Viking Long-ships were recognized by their decorative "prow," which was often carved to the likeness of fearsome beasts. The Viking Long-ship could sail well in deep sea as well as sail up shallow rivers. At Sea they were powered by sails and in shallow water by oar ... this time to be known as the Viking age in northern Europe. The Norwegian Vikings started the rampage in 793 when they looted the monastery of Lindsfarne off the eastern coast of England. The Vikings attacked England, Scotland, and Ireland with vigor for the ne...

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Exploration and Colonization The Northwest Passage was a water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Archipelago of northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Navigators founded it in the 16th century. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He loved the sea and became a sailor at the age of fifteen ... Yucatan. He died near Seville on Dec. 2, 1547. Jacques Cartier was a navigator, born in St-Malo, France. He made three voyages of exploration to North America (1534--42), surveying the coast of Canada and the St Lawrence R, and providing the bas...

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... greatest and more accomplished navigators in the history of England, although the Spaniards might like to call him a fake, liar, and cheat. Drake's was born in 1543 near the western coast of England near Plymouth, in the area of Devonshire. When he was around six years old, his father, himself a navigator, received a job as a chaplain in a naval shipyard in the county ... a youngster, he probably was apprenticed to an old sailor by his father, Edmund Drake, to learn the craftsmanship of the seas and how to be a sailor. Since on the east coast of England were difficult rivers and waterwa...

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The first colonies in North America were along the eastern coast. Settlers from Spain, France, Sweden, Holland, and England claimed land beginning in the 17th century. The struggle for control of this land would continue for more than a hundred years. The ... company had come to stay. The Pilgrims followed, in 1620, and set up a colony at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts. Other English colonies sprang up all along the Atlantic coast, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. Swedish and Dutch colonies took shape in and around what is now New York. As more and more people arrived...

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... to expel the natives out of the area. They first decided that these people had not received God's grace, for their mere looks told them that they were "savage" looking beasts. They tried to preach and convert them, but to no avail, so they finally decided that due to the Natives disobedience to God's commandments the Puritans had rule over them ... ...

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... corn and wheat were shipped to the British West Indies to feed the slaves. Also pleasing to England was Massachusetts profitable fishing industry. Fish were immeasurable up and down the coast of Massachusetts and it was also very close to the fishing regions of Maine and Newfoundland. Cod became the great symbol of Massachusetts prosperity. Fish were a common component of the ... can see no part of the whale went unused and this became very profitable to England. By 1772 over one hundred and fifty ships became involved in whaling off the coast and some thirty thousand barrels of whale o...

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... them to break into the enclosure movement because everything grew perfectly. Most just ignored the new world, and went on with their lives. Giovanni da Verrazano sailed up the Atlantic Coast for France in 1524 looking for a passage to China. Although unsuccessful he established a small trade economy with the Native Americans along the ... coast. "So many voyages and discoveries without result, and attended with so much hardship and expense, have caused us French in late years to attempt a permanent settlement in those lands which ... ...

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... . The first attempts made by England to form a colony in America, happened in the late sixteenth century, at Roanoke Island. Starting in 1584, efforts were made to explore the east coast of North America. It was in 1587 that a colony was finally formed. This was a great thing for the colonists and for England, and also one of the greatest American mysteries ... ...

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... Virginia and England. In addition, individuals were also encouraged to make investments. Even though the company eventually failed to yield profits, (many ships were lost or wrecked off the American coast) King James I helped the seeds of working for a profit into the minds of early American settlers. Salutary neglect or the Mercantile Laws not being reinforced was another reason for the ... ...

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... administrators (Barker 45). London was well connected even then with the rest of England and Wales. The Thames provided good water communication upstream, and, via the open sea, along the coast and with Europe. There was a good waterway system in the country long before rivers came to be improved, and well before the introduction of the Canal Age (Barker 45). Main ... ...

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... and weaving machines?" (Compton's Encyclopedia, Eli Whitney) There were two types of cottons grown on plantations: "A black-seed, long-staple cotton was easily cleaned, but it grew only near the coast, while a green-seed, short-staple variety grew in inland areas but resisted cleaning since its fiber stuck to the seed." (Compton's) "Before cotton can be used, the fibers must be ... ...

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... technology during the time might have been faster or better. A big turning point for the radio was when in 1912, a distress came from the Titanic. Wireless stations on the East coast of the United States received the signal. One of the recipients was David Sarnoff. "Sarnoff heard a signal, "S.S. Titanic ran into iceberg. Sinking Fast."6 From then on, many people had new ... ...

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... Hardrada thought that he was king since him and King Edward had an agreement, King Hardrada of Norway immediately planned to invade England. King Hardrada landed on the Northern English coast. They "sacked" some villages, and headed to the city of York for battle. To little surprise King Harold had already heard news of their landing, and was already waiting for ... ...

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... high seas ripped into many ships traveling to the colonies. Diseases were also prevalent aboard these vessels. Upon actually reaching Virginia a whole new set of actualities surfaced. Along the tobacco coast mortality rates were quite high. Many people died within a year because they fell victim to diseases for which they had no immunity. Those who did endure were now bound to ... ...

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... points across is by using poetry. This poem, in Made in America, entitled "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers- begins: The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd And the heavy night hung dark The hills and water o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their bark On the ... ...

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... an advantage over the troops as well, the English force was already slightly deteriorated. After the English defeat and the death of Harold the country was in ruins. Along the coast the English troops and decimated the crops and farmland as they waited for the attack. During the Norsemen invasion several villages were sacked and burned and more farmland was destroyed ... ...

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... , Saxons, and Jutes. As these Germanic tribes settled in, yet another group of invaders started to arrive. These invaders were the Vikings, attacked and looted costal towns on the east coast of Britain, and eventually made colonies. To ensure the Vikings did not take over the whole island, Alfred the Great united the Anglo-Saxon tribes, and forced the Vikings to ... ...

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... for internal improvements. Southern resentment prevented federal money from going into projects intended for the construction of a transcontinental railroad that would have linked Chicago or St. Louis with the Pacific coast. The issue of slavery, although it is now seen to be a moral one, was primarily economic during the Civil War era. Up until the middle 1800s, slavery was kept as ... ...

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