Why the English Came to America? ... Plymouth - In 1606 a group of Separatists were being persecuted in England and fled to Holland seeking freedom of religion, however, in Holland they began to worry about their English heritage being affected by the Dutch... Massachusetts is sometimes called the "Bible Commonwealth" because the government was a theocracy, meaning that the laws were based on religion. ... It divided the English colonies. 2. ... The English wanted control of the thriving fur trade in the area. 4. ...

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Tricia Chow 9/28/03 2* This land is your land Geography was a major factor in the way people lived in the three mayor areas of English settlement in North America. ... Their religion caused them to work together as a community. ... Working together through religion was a foundation for substance farms. ... English stockholders founded Jamestown in 1607 in hope of finding gold and getting rich. ... The way people lived in the New England colonies was started through religion the sense of community. ...

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-By the spring of 1621 half the colony was dead -Two natives Squanto and Samoset helped the colony survive by introducing native strains of corn and setting up a treaty between the Indians and the colony -The Pilgrims set up a government based on their Mayflower Compact -A governor and several assistants were elected annually by all the adult males in the colony -The colony had no royal approval but there were bigger problems to deal with -in 1625 Charles I inherited the crown and when parliament tried tot limit his power he dissolved parliament -England granted a charter for th...

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While the Spanish were getting their western piece of land, and the French their northern and central, the English began to settle their colonies. ... 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. This caused them to be religiously conflicting with the New England colonies. ...

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Pennsylvania is called The Keystone State because it lies in the middle of the original thirteen colonies and has played a large role in the development of the United States. ... In 1676 English law and civil government were introduced. ... Pennsylvania's most predominant religion is the Catholic Church with roughly three million followers. ...

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