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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Even though most of the colonies on the eastern seaboard during the 17th century had English origin, each colony had its differences. The colonies of Chesapeake and Plymouth are two perfect examples. Each of the colonies had distinctive differences in their religion, government and economy. ... Religion also affected the economics of each colony. ... There were many things that rendered the differences in the colonies. ...

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Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. ... Three English diversions were banned in their New England colonies: drama, religious music and erotic poetry. ... By 1700, Boston became the second largest publishing center of the English Empire. ... They brought along their new ideas on religion and government. ...

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The Puritans were a group of English colonist who settled in America in 1558. They left England because of freedom of religion. ... The Puritans didn't like the way the English created new taxes, and Puritans saw this as taking away their independence. Because the Puritans felt that way they helped convince other colonies to rebel against England. ... After six years of battling England the British colonies won the Revolutionary War. ...

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The preachers" jeremiads, sermons full of gloom and threats of God's wrath, were not so much an accurate account of a deteriorating situation as ritualized reminders of the colonies" religious purpose(Patrick Allitt). Up to the point of departure from England to the American continent the soon to be named Puritans struggled to persuade others that the English religions had become too self-serving and caught up in the things of the world. With each change in the throne, they experienced a different view of religion, depending upon their leader. ... These people wanted to set up a per...

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