Lastly, governors were elected democratically in Connecticut and Rhode Island because they were allowed to govern themselves. ... Colonials could practice the freedoms of representative government, assembly, press, and speech which were all greatly treasured. ...

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Many of them believed all the foreigners wanted was gold and treasure. ... However, when he goes to the island, he finds no gold. Columbus then traveled to some other islands and finally finds gold. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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