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    New England with Chesapeake. Include description of their economics‚ religious practices‚ labor sources‚ government and familiar patterns. Were these differences caused more by topographical factors or immigration patterns? Upon evaluating the New England colonies versus the Chesapeake bay colonies‚ it is important to outline their similarities and differences in order to assess why one flourished more successfully than the other and the root of this occurrence. Although Plymouth New England possessed

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    Cited: /b> <br><li>Bingham‚ Caroline. The Crowned Lions. Totowa‚ New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield‚ 1978. <br><li>"Henry." Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 1991. <br><li>Larned‚ J. N. A History of England. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 1900. <br><li>McKay‚ John‚ etal. A History of World Societies. Dallas: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 1992. <br><li>Schultz‚ Harold J. British History. Harper Perennial Publishers. <br><li>Tabuteau‚ Emily Zack. "Henry

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    The civil war started from 1642 and ended in 1648‚ claiming the lives of 1 in 10 men from England. The war broke out forty years after the death of Elizabeth I‚ who had managed to rule England well. But the real problems came with the coming of Charles I of England‚ (second son of James VI of Scotland). During the reign of different monarchies the power of parliament had increased and in those times it was ordinary from the king to rule with parliament. However‚ Charles believed in the rite of

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    Although people from England settled in the Chesapeake and New England area‚ the regions evolved into two distinct societies due to their differences in religion‚ politics‚ and especially‚ economies by 1700. The religion of the Chesapeake and New England areas differed. Because New Englanders came to escape religious persecution‚ one would think that it would become a land of complete tolerance. This was not the case‚ though. The New Englanders were very religious-based‚ and considered themselves

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    The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent‚ but by 1700‚ they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently‚ mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion‚ their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homeland: England‚ each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies.  On his way to the

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    Monique Pitre Mr. Watson APUSH 9/6/11 DBQ The settlers of New England and the Chesapeake region may have migrated from the same origin‚ but that’s where the similarities end; by the 1700s‚ they differed socially‚ economically‚ and politically. As people began to migrate over to the New World‚ they started to adapt to the regions around them. This being said‚ it only makes sense that the settlers would adapt to the strengths of their geography‚ meaning that regions obviously differed. Socially

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    New England vs. the Chesapeake The discovery of the Americas gave a ray of hope to promising settlers who would migrate from England to begin a new and improved life. Most of these settlers ended up in either the New England colonies or the Chesapeake colonies. These two colonies could not have been more opposite of one another. The fact that they were so different makes it no surprise that by the 1700’s the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had evolved into two distinct

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    crops. But‚ corn‚ pumpkins‚ rye‚ squash and beans were planted. They had rocky mountains with thick trees. Also some of their natural resources were fish‚ whales‚ forests. New England imported some of their agricultural products from other colonies. Nationalities - People in the New England colonies were all from England‚ and came to practice their own religion on the Mayflower. Year Founded : New Hampshire; 1638 Massachusetts; 1630 Connecticut; 1636 Rhode Island;

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    * Queen Elizabeth daughter of Henry 8 and Anne Berlin * Protestant but partly protestant * Defeated Spanish armada * England on the Eve of Empire   England Eve of Empire * England Population growing rapidly 1550 3.5 mil‚ 1600 4 mil * Economic Depression in wool trade. * Enclosure forcing people off land * Unemployment raising * People leaving countryside to go to cities * Primogeniture- oldest son gets everything and chooses

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    shoemaker) indicates” (42). While not shoemakers‚ Chaucer’s “father and grandfather were both wine merchants‚ apparently successful and rising men” (Morrison 7). Geoffrey Chaucer was born sometime between 1340 -1345‚ in London‚ England. It is not known what education level that Chaucer may have reached. Since he became a member of the household of Elizabeth‚ countess of Ulster‚ it is assumed that he had an opportunity to receive higher education. It is believed

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