However, the first permanent settlement in North America was by the English in 1607. ... Religion/Society What people believed depended on where they lived. ... Their beliefs of equality also gave them years of peace wit the Native Americans, something the other colonies did not have. The Southern colonists had a mixture of religions as well, including Baptists and Anglicans. ... Foods that didn't grow in America were shipped from England. ...

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That is to say, they flourished with help from the local Native Americans. ... Why would so many young men and women come to the America's when they were not running from anything? ... After the Church of England split apart from the religion of Catholicism, the protestant religion began to flourish, gaining more members. ... Unlike the Chesapeake, the New England colonies were modeled over religion. ... The Chesapeake was less severe when it came to Religion. ...

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Jonathan Edwards explicitly drew on the thoughts of men like John Locke and Isaac Newton in an attempt to make religion rational ( Jonathan Edwards the Younger, pg. 59). ... Whitefield preached in England, Scotland, Whales, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and the American Colonies. ... Many graduates became revival preachers in the Great Awakening (Famous Americans, n.pg.). ... The Great Awakening also influenced the call to missions, especially to the Native Americans. ... This revival undoubtedly brought about the most influential preachers of American history. ...

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Not only were they British, but according to Hector Crevecoeur, they also created a new race of men- an American. ... So groups of the same religion would settle in one area and develop it in their own way, such as Massachusetts Bay, which was Puritan. ... Some Loyalists were just afraid that without England, they would have no more protection and the threat of natives would only grow. ... Under this plan, America would come together under one general government. ... They even believed that they had their own identity, as Americans. ...

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The American Pageant pages 25-65 I. The Planting of English America 1. ... Disease and armed conquest had ravaged the native people of the New World. ... Virginia company's charter guaranteed overseas settlers the same rights as native Englishmen. ... Other Native Americans were forced out of their ancestral lands. ...

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